David Duncan (ski cross)

David Duncan ( born July 15, 1982 in London, Ontario ) is a Canadian freestyle skier. He specializes in the discipline of ski cross.

Biography

Duncan was an alpine ski racer at the start. He took part from December 1997 FIS races and from March 2000 Nor- Am Cup, greater success failed to materialize, however. In 2002, he moved to Anchorage and graduated from the University of Alaska to study aeronautical engineering. His last ski race he competed in February 2006, the same year he graduated. Duncan joined the ski cross and finished in April 2006 in his first race, the U.S. Championships, once the fourth. Subsequently, he was inducted into the Canadian national team.

His debut in the Freestyle World Cup had Duncan on January 12, 2008 in Les Contamines, where he scored the 33rd place. The first World Cup points, he won four days later, with 26th place in Flaine. As a result, Duncan was able to establish itself in the midfield. In February 2009, followed by the first top- 10 ranking, in March 2009, he won at the Canadian championships. On 5 January 2010, he scored a third in the race in St. Johann in Tirol first time a World Cup podium, which he qualified for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. In training immediately before the Olympic race at Cypress Mountain, he suffered a broken collarbone and had to end the season prematurely.

In the winter of 2010/11 was a 10th place Duncans best World Cup result, at the Winter X Games 2010, he finished second. The World Cup season 2011/12 he started with a 3rd place in San Candido. At the Winter X Games 2012 he drove in 3rd place on December 21, 2013, he celebrated his first World Cup victory in San Candido, on the next day after he double.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Sochi 2014: 26 ski cross

World Championships

  • Deer Valley 2011: 19 ski cross
  • Voss 2013: 19 ski cross

World Cup

  • Season 2011/12: 6 ski cross World Cup
  • Season 2013/14: 6 ski cross World Cup
  • 7 podiums, including two victories:

Other successes

  • Winter X Games 2010: 2nd Skier X
  • Winter X Games 2012: 3rd Skier X
  • 1 Canadian Champion title (2009)
Freestyle-Skiing FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup 2013–14 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup 2011–12 FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup London (Ontario) Anchorage, Alaska University of Alaska Anchorage Cypress Mountain Ski Area Innichen Freestyle skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2011 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2013 Italy
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