James "Jack" Crawford (born 3 May 1997) is a Canadian

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ...

alpine ski racer Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...

. He specializes in the speed disciplines of downhill and

super-G Super giant slalom, or super-G, is a racing discipline of alpine skiing. Along with the faster downhill, it is regarded as a "speed" event, in contrast to the technical events giant slalom and slalom. It debuted as an official World Cup event ...

, and occasionally competes in

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant sl ...

and combined. Crawford made his World Cup debut in January

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

in a super-G at

Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a town rights, medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol (state), Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbüh ...

, Austria. He competed in the

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, and the

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and

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, where he was fourth in the combined event. In January 2022, Crawford was named to Canada's Olympic team; he was fourth in the downhill, sixth in the

, and won the bronze medal in the combined. At the 2023 World Championships in Courchevel, Crawford won his first gold medal in Super-G. In 2025, he won the Kitzbühel downhill, the first Canadian win since

Todd Brooker Todd Brooker (born 24 November 1959) is a former Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer member Crazy Canucks and a ski commentator on television. World Cup career Born in Waterloo, Ontario, Waterloo, Ontario, Brooker learned to ski and race at The Tor ...

in 1983. Crawford's older sister Candace is also an alpine racer; their aunt is Judy Crawford, who finished fourth in the slalom at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside ...

at Sapporo.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

* 1 win (1 DH) * 6 podiums (4 DH, 2 SG); 27 top tens (15 DH, 12 SG)

World Championship results

Olympic results

References

External links

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1997 births Living people Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics Canadian male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for Canada Place of birth missing (living people) Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Canada Olympic medalists in alpine skiing 21st-century Canadian sportsmen Long stubs with short prose {{Canada-alpine-skiing-bio-stub