Viviane Forest

Sporting career

Forest played on Canada's gold medal-winning goalball teams in Sydney and Athens.

She won a silver at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver for slalom (Visually Impaired), with a time of 2:01.45, 0.89 seconds behind the winner, Sabine Gasteiger of Austria.[2]

She won a bronze in the 2010 Winter Paralympics for giant slalom for women's visually impaired.[3][4]

She won gold at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Whistler Creekside for Women's Visually Impaired Downhill. This made her the first para-athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games.[1][3][4]

Her skiing guide is Lindsay Debou. Their personal sponsors are The Weather Network and Fischer.[5]

Results

Beyond the Paralympics, her results include:

2009 World IPC Championships-High 1 Korea

  • Gold Medalist- Super-Combined
  • Silver Medalist- Downhill
  • Silver Medalist- Giant slalom
  • Silver Medalist- Slalom
  • Silver Medalist- SG

2009 World Cup Finals-Whistler, BC

  • Gold Medalist- Giant slalom
  • Gold Medalist- Downhill
  • Silver Medalist- Super combined
  • Silver Medalist- Super G

References
  1. Vancouver Sun, "Para-alpine star Viviane Forest has potential for huge Games medal haul" Archived 24 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, John Korobanik, 11 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
  2. Telegraph-Journal, "Games: Canucks remain undefeated in sledge hockey, curling", Canadian Press, 15 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
  3. The Gazette (Montreal), "‘Tough cookie’ Forest wins second Paralympic medal", Mike Beamish, 16 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
  4. Vancouver Sun, "Paralympic para-alpine skiing: Canada’s Viviane Forest does the trifecta, wins visually impaired downhill gold" Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Mike Beamish, 18 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
  5. The Weather Network (Canada), "Weather News: The Weather Network is proud to sponsor Canadian Para-Alpine athlete Viviane Forest." (accessed 15 March 2010)
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