Erik Guay

Erik Guay (born August 5, 1981) is a Canadian former World Cup alpine ski racer. Racing out of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Guay won the World Cup season title in super-G in 2010 and was the world champion in downhill in 2011, as well as in the super-G in 2017. With 25 World Cup podiums, he is the career leader for Canada.

Career Born in Montreal, Guay was five when he competed in his first ski race, and when he was twelve his father, himself a ski team coach, took him for professional coaching.

His first podium came in November 2003, when he finished 2nd in a downhill at Lake Louise. He finished in second twice in 2005 in the super-G and third once in downhill. Guay suffered an injury two weeks before the 2006 Winter Olympics, and withdrew from the downhill but finished in fourth place in the super-G, missing the podium by a tenth of a second. He was the first Canadian to win a World Cup men's downhill race since 1994, and the first man ever from Québec. Guay's performance in alpine skiing over the 2007 season was enough to place him in third position in the final world cup standings. In 2009, Guay achieved ten top-20 finishes in World Cup speed events but reached only one podium, a third. Following the games, he achieved three straight podiums during March, including wins in the last two super-G races of the season, which enabled him to come from behind to win the discipline trophy in super-G in 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup. Guay became the first Canadian man to win a crystal globe for a discipline title since Steve Podborski in 1982. tying him with Steve Podborski as Canada's all-time leader. A week later he took third at Bormio to take the career lead. This boosted Guay's hopes of achieving his dream of winning an Olympic medal. Going into Sochi, Guay stated, "I won't be satisfied if I don't walk away with a medal." Guay missed all of the 2015 season recovering from his sixth knee surgery.

At the 2017 World Championships in St. Moritz, Guay won the super-G event. At 35, Guay became the oldest World Champion ever, replacing incumbent super-G champion Hannes Reichelt. That weekend, Guay also placed second in the downhill event.

Guay was unable to participate in the alpine skiing events at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang because of a back injury. Since 2009, Erik Guay has been part of the Tremblant athletes ambassadors program.

World Cup results Season titles Season Discipline 2010 Super-G

Season standings Season Age Overall Slalom Giantslalom Super-G Downhill Combined 2003 21 79 — — 32 37 — 2004 22 55 — — 24 28 — 2005 23 25 — — 15 14 19 2006 24 18 — 47 6 11 — 2007 25 12 — 49 10 3 — 2008 26 18 — 41 6 12 — 2009 27 22 — — 12 6 — 2010 28 13 — — 1 13 — 2011 29 26 — — 13 14 — 2012 30 19 — — 12 7 — 2013 31 18 — — 11 6 — 2014 32 13 — — 21 3 — 2015 33 injured, out for season 2016 34 26 — — 20 13 — 2017 35 14 — — 9 5 — 2018 36 116 — — 36 — —

Race podiums 5 wins – (3 DH, 2 SG) 24 podiums – (17 DH, 7 SG)

World Championship results Year Age Slalom Giant slalom Super-G Downhill Combined 2003 21 — — 6 6 17 2005 23 — — 19 22 DNS 2007 25 — — 6 4 — 2009 27 — — 19 DNF — 2011 29 — — DNF 1 — 2013 31 — — 23 DSQ — 2015 33 injured, out for season 2017 35 — —1 2—