Doug Lewis (skier) explained

Doug Lewis
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Disciplines:Downhill, super-G, giant slalom, combined
Full Name:Douglas Grey Lewis
Birth Date:1964 1, mf=yes
Birth Place:Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.
Weight:75 kg -->
Wcdebut:March 11, 1984 (age 20)
Retired:March 1988 (age 24)
Olympicteams:2 – (1984, 1988)
Olympicmedals:0
Worldsteams:2 – (1985, 1987)
Worldsmedals:1
Worldsgolds:0
Wcseasons:5 – (19841988)
Wcwins:0
Wcpodiums:1 – (1 DH)
Wcoveralls:0 – (39th in 1985)
Wctitles:0 – (15th in DH, 1985)
Show-Medals:yes

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]

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 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.[2] He is a 1991 graduate of the University of Vermont.[3]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super-G Downhill Combined
20 79 not
awarded
27
21 59 51 25
22 39 15 36
23 53 19
24

Top ten finishes

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
1984 11 Mar 1984 align=center 8th
1985 15 Dec 1984 Downhill align=center 9th
11 Jan 1985 Downhill 10th
1985 World Championships
1986 16 Aug 1985 Downhill align=center 2nd
17 Jan 1986 Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill 5th
8 Mar 1986 Downhill 8th
1987 28 Feb 1987 Downhill 7th
7 Mar 1987 Aspen, CO, USA Downhill 9th

World championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
21 not run
23 17

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom  Giant
 Slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
20 not run not run
24

External links

Notes and References

  1. Douglas Lewis. 2010-02-08. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20091011042458/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/douglas-lewis-1.html. 2009-10-11.
  2. Web site: Eliteam. 2015-04-29.
  3. Web site: Olympians. University of Vermont.