Lucien Laferte
Lucien Laferté, known as the Flying Cowboy (March 19, 1919 – November 14, 2012[1]) was a Canadian ski jumper who competed from after World War II into the 1950s. He was born in Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec.
He won the Canadian Championship in 1947 in Revelstoke, British Columbia and finished 41st in the individual large hill event at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. He lived in Trois-Rivières, Québec all his life and married Denise Trépanier on January 20, 1950.
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- ^ "LAFERTÉ, Lucien 1919-2012" (in French). domainefuneraire.com. Retrieved 17 November 2012.
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- 1919 births
- 2012 deaths
- Canadian male ski jumpers
- Olympic ski jumpers of Canada
- People from Centre-du-Québec
- Ski jumpers at the 1952 Winter Olympics
- Sportspeople from Quebec
- Ski jumping biography stubs
- Canadian winter sports biography stubs