Doug Lewis (skier)

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Doug Lewis
Alpine skier
Doug Lewis skier 1985.jpg
Lewis in 1985
Disciplines Downhill, Super-G,
Giant slalom, Combined
Full nameDouglas Grey Lewis
Born (1964-01-18) January 18, 1964 (age 56)
Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
World Cup debutMarch 11, 1984 (age 20)
RetiredMarch 1988 (age 24)
Olympics
Teams2 – (1984, 1988)
Medals0
World Championships
Teams2 – (1985, 1987)
Medals1 (0 gold)
World Cup
Seasons5 – (1984–1988)
Wins0
Podiums1 – (1 DH)
Overall titles0 – (39th in 1985)
Discipline titles0 – (15th in DH, 1985)
Medal record
Representing the
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1985 Bormio Downhill

Douglas Grey Lewis (born January 18, 1964) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team in the mid-1980s. Born in Middlebury, Vermont, he was a two-time Olympian in 1984 and 1988. [1]

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After competing in the 1984 Olympics at age 20, Lewis made his World Cup debut a month later in March 1984 with an 8th-place finish at Whistler, BC. The following season, Lewis had two World Cup top ten finishes and was the bronze medalist in the downhill at the 1985 World Championships at Bormio, Italy. [2] [3] He was unknown at that time, and having a bib number behind the best 15 racers he did gatecrash a party of three Swiss racers on the podium (and pushing away Franz Heinzer). His only World Cup podium came six months later, a second-place finish in Las Leñas, Argentina, in August 1985.

Lewis is currently an analyst for alpine ski racing with Universal Sports, and also runs a children's sports camp with locations in Waitsfield, Vermont, and Park City, Utah. [4] He is a 1991 graduate of the University of Vermont. [5]

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom		Super GDownhillCombined
1984 2079——not
awarded		27—
1985 2159—5125—
1986 2239———1536
1987 2353———19—
1988 24

Top ten finishes

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
1984 11 Mar 1984 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Whistler, BC, Canada Downhill 8th
1985 15 Dec 1984 Flag of Italy.svg Val Gardena, Italy Downhill9th
11 Jan 1985 Flag of Austria.svg Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill10th
Flag of Italy.svg 1985 World Championships
1986 16 Aug 1985 Flag of Argentina.svg Las Leñas, Argentina Downhill2nd
17 Jan 1986 Flag of Austria.svg Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill5th
8 Mar 1986 Flag of the United States.svg Aspen, CO, USA Downhill8th
1987 28 Feb 1987 Flag of Japan.svg Furano, Japan Downhill7th
7 Mar 1987 Flag of the United States.svg Aspen, CO, USADownhill9th

World championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
1985 21——not run 3 —
1987 23——— 29 17

Olympic results Olympic rings.svg

  Year   Age  Slalom Giant
 Slalom 		Super-GDownhillCombined
1984 20 — — not run 24 not run
1988 24 — — — 32 —

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References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Douglas Lewis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-10-11. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
  2. ↑ "Swiss dominate world skiing". Lewiston Daily Sun. (Maine). Associated Press. February 4, 1985. p. 18.
  3. ↑ "World Ski Championships: Downhill". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). February 4, 1985. p. 4B.
  4. ↑ "Eliteam" . Retrieved 2015-04-29.
  5. ↑ "Olympians". University of Vermont.
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