James Hunter

James Mark Hunter (born May 30, 1953), nicknamed "Jungle Jim", and 1976, He was a member of the Canadian Men's Alpine Ski Team nicknamed the "Crazy Canucks", and is considered to be the original Crazy Canuck.

Biography Hunter was born in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and started skiing at the age of eleven having previously played ice hockey. he practiced his racing tuck position atop a rack he built and placed in a pick-up truck as his father drove at over ,

Hunter joined the Canadian Men's Alpine Ski Team in 1970,

Hunter represented Canada at two Winter Olympics. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, he placed twentieth in the downhill, eleventh in the giant slalom, and nineteenth in the slalom. Although he didn't win an Olympic medal, the Olympic competition was also that year's World Championship, and the combined results were good enough to earn him a bronze medal in the alpine combined event. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, he placed tenth in the downhill, twenty-second in the giant slalom, and twenty-third in the slalom.

Hunter placed in the top ten at seventeen World Cup events but never won a gold medal. and a second-place finish in the combined at Kitzbuhel.

Hunter retired from the Canadian ski team in March, 1977.

In the run up to the Games of the XV Winter Olympiade, Hunter managed the 88-day Olympic Torch Relay from St. John's, Newfoundland, across Canada to the games site at Calgary, Alberta.

Hunter hosted "The Jungle Jim Hunter Show" on The Fan 960 radio station. He is also a motivational speaker and provides developmental coaching for athletes and teams from Calgary where he resides with his wife and four grown children.

Jim Hunter is an uncle to each of the Hunter Brothers, a Canadian country music group from Shaunavon, Saskatchewan.