Rob Boyd

Robert Alexander " Rob" Boyd (* February 15, 1966 in Vernon, British Columbia) is a former Canadian alpine skier. He was from 1985, member of the Canadian National Ski Team, which was re-formed for the discharged in their own country the 1988 Winter Olympics. During his twelve- year career, he won three World Cup downhills. He once took part in the Olympic Games and has qualified six times for Alpine World Ski Championships. In 1989, he was the first Canadian to win a World Cup race on local slopes. Because of its spectacular, risky driving style, he was seen in the aftermath of the so-called Crazy Canucks.

Career

Boyd was at the age of three, for the first time on skis and began eleven years to deny first race. Initially he played next to the skiing and ice hockey, and dabbled in imitation of his sister, a successful Skiakrobatin, also in freestyle. As the number of ski racing steadily increased, he focused on the alpine racing.

As a 14 - year-old he joined the in-country racing series around the Fleischmann Cup and the race to the North American Nor- Am Cup. In 1983 he became a member of the ski team of the province of British Columbia. After winning the Fleischmann Cup in 1984, he was inducted into the so-called National Development Group, a junior squad, which was formed by the Canadian Ski Association with respect to the discharged in their own country the 1988 Winter Olympics. Under the aegis of the former Austrian downhill coach Heinz Stohl succeeded Boyd 1985, the dip in the B-team of the Canadian National Ski Team. In the 1985/86 season he won equal points with the Americans Sam Collins and Mike Brown the exit summary of the Nor- Am Cup. That same winter, he played his first World Cup race.

Immediately on his second race in December 1985 in Val Gardena he went to tenth place, which he confirmed two months later at the World Cup downhill in Åre with a sixth place. In his second World Cup season in Val Gardena him again scored his first World Cup victory. His aggressive, uncompromising driving on icy slopes of start number 26 on the podium established his reputation as a successor to the so-called Crazy Canucks and he moved into the role of a key figure in front of the Canadian Alpine team. Six weeks after this success he achieved at the Alpine World Ski Championships 1987 in Crans- Montana, Switzerland ranked fifth in the downhill and broke through the only driver to the phalanx of the dominant Swiss rider.

In advance of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary Boyd was able to repeat his victory in Val Gardena and ended up with four more runs in the top ten. The Olympic competitions, to which he had arrived with high expectations, however, were disappointing. On the descent, he only reached rank 16 in the Alpine combination he left.

In the post-Olympic season, he came again five times in the top ten and finished the season with a victory at the exit of Whistler from. Then he suffered repeated serious injuries. Spite of a few top results, a second place in Val Gardena ( December 1990), a third place in the Hahnenkamm race ( January 1991) and two fourth places in the double departure from Val Gardena ( December 1992 ) remained consistent from good rankings. Finally he retired in February 1997 from the World Cup back.

In the following three years he participated in several races as a professional skier. Having already collected 1986-1997 as a commentator at the World Cup race media experience, he resigned after his athletic career in a series of films as freestyle and stunt driver. Since 2004 he works as a trainer at the Canadian Ski Association.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Calgary 1988: 16 Downhill, 22 Super -G

World Championships

  • Crans -Montana 1987: 5th exit
  • Vail 1987: 11 Departure
  • Saalbach -Hinterglemm 1991: 14 Departure
  • Morioka Shizukuishi - 1993: 25 Departure
  • Sierra Nevada 1996: 28 Departure

World Cup wins

Other successes

  • Winning the downhill discipline standings of the Nor- Am Cup 1985/86
  • 1 Canadian championship (Super -G 1991)

Swell

  • World Sports Archives 24/1987 from 1 June 1987
  • Rob Boyd in the Canadian Encyclopedia: English, French
Super-G 1988 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1991 Alpine Skiing World Cup Vernon (British Columbia) Freestyle-Skiing FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1987 Crans-Montana Whistler (British Columbia) Alpine skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1989 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1991 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993
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