Chris Devlin-Young
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| Full name | Christopher Devlin-Young | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 26, 1961 (age 60) San Diego, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christopher Devlin-Young (born December 26, 1961) is an American alpine ski racer and two time Paralympic Champion, who resides in Campton, New Hampshire. He competes as a monoskier in the LW 12–1 class.
Career[]
Born in San Diego, Young was paralyzed in a plane crash in Alaska while serving in the United States Coast Guard in 1982.[1] He learned to ski at the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in 1986 as a "four-tracker," standing on two skis while using outriggers. He was named to the U.S. Disabled Ski Team in 1989 and competed in the in Winter Park, Colorado, winning a silver medal and two bronzes in the LW-1 class. Young missed the 1992 Winter Paralympic team but qualified for the 1994 Games in Lillehammer, Norway, where he won gold in the slalom.
In 1995 Young began a two-year hiatus from racing to coach the New England Disabled Ski team at Loon Mtn. New Hampshire, and when he returned to the sport in 1997 it was as a monoskier. He missed the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano, Japan but came back in 2002 with another gold, this time in super G, along with a silver in downhill. With that performance he became the first skier ever to win a Paralympic skiing gold medal in two different disability classes.[2] He repeated his downhill performance in 2006, placing second behind teammate Kevin Bramble. In 2015, he won the Mono Skier X (X-Games), also becoming the oldest gold medalist in the history of the competition.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Athlete Profile: Chris Devlin-Young". U.S. Paralympics. Archived from the original on 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
- ^ "Athletes: Chris Devlin-Young". U.S. Ski Team. Archived from the original on 2010-01-03. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
- ^ Mark Kohlman, "X-Games Aspen 2015 photo highlights", ESPN.
 | This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (January 2010) |
External links[]
- Christopher Devlin-Young at the International Paralympic Committee
- Christopher Devlin-Young at IPC.InfostradaSports.com
- Chris Young at the International Paralympic Committee
- Chris Devlin-Young at the X Games
- 1961 births
- Living people
- American male alpine skiers
- Paralympic alpine skiers of the United States
- Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
- Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
- Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
- Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
- Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
- X Games athletes
- People from Campton, New Hampshire