Steve Podborski
Steve Podborski ( born July 25, 1957 in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto ) is a former Canadian alpine skier.
He was one of the so-called Crazy Canucks ( "crazy Canadians " ), a group of Canadian skiers who and early 1980s, the dominance of Europeans ended in the 1970s, and became known mainly through its breakneck, but very successful driving style.
At the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid Podborski won behind the two Austrians Leonhard Stock and Peter Wirnsberger the bronze medal in the downhill. He also won a total of eight world-class runs, including twice the famous Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel, and was also placed another 34 times in the Top 10. In the season 1981/82 he decided the downhill World Cup itself, together with the Swiss Peter Müller. Podborski won three Canadian Championship titles ( 1977 Giant Slalom, Downhill 1983 and 1984 ).
In 1982 he received the Order of Canada, the highest honor of his country for civilians. Today Podborski a member of the Organizing Committee of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, where he is responsible for international relations. Podborski is athlete ambassador of development organization Right to Play.