Dustin Cook Explained

Dustin Cook
Disciplines:Super-G
Club:Mont Ste. Marie
Birth Date:11 February 1989
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Height:1.83 m
Wcdebut:November 27, 2010
Retired:March 2020
Website:dustincook.ca
Olympicteams:1 – (2018)
Olympicmedals:0
Worldsteams:4 – (20132019)
Worldsmedals:1
Worldsgolds:0
Wcseasons:8th – (201115, 201719)
Wcwins:1 – (1 SG)
Wcpodiums:2 – (2 SG)
Wcoveralls:0 – (30th in 2015)
Wctitles:0 – (5th in SG, 2015)
Show-Medals:yes

Dustin Cook (born February 11, 1989) is a Canadian former World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he won a silver medal in the Super-G at the 2015 World Championships at Beaver Creek, USA.[1]

Cook made his first World Cup podium in March 2015, in a Super-G at Kvitfjell, Norway, and won his first race eleven days later at the World Cup finals in Méribel, France.

Career

Born in Toronto, Cook has lived in Lac-Sainte-Marie since he was ten.[2] When he was five he competed in his first ski race, and when he was twelve he made the regional high performance ski team. Cook has 23 Nor-Am Cup podiums, ranking him tied for fifth among men for most podiums in Nor-Am Cup history as of the end of the 2014/15 season.[3]

His first podium came in 2015 at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2015 when he finished 2nd in the Super G at Beaver Creek. Cook became the first Canadian man to medal in a Super G at the World Championships.[4] He also finished twelfth in Giant Slalom at the World Championships one week later. His first FIS Alpine World Cup podium came one month later when he finished 3rd in the Super G at Kvitfjell. He won his first race eleven days later at the World Cup Finals in Meribel. Cook finished the 2015 season with five top twenty World Cup finishes, in addition to his two podiums and World Championship medal. He finished the 2015 season ranked 5th in Super G, and 30th in Giant Slalom.[5]

With his World Championship medal Cook became the eighth and final member of the Canadian Cowboys[6]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
22 163 53
23
24 126 44 50
25
26 30 30 5
27 injured, out for season
28 88 21
29 70 17
30 99 27

Standings through 20 January 2019

Race podiums

SeasonDateLocationDisciplinePlace
2015 8 Mar 2015 Kvitfjell, Norway 3rd
18 Mar 2015 Méribel, France Super-G 1st

World Championships results

  Year    Age   Slalom  Giant
 slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
24
26
28
30

Other

Most Valuable Participant: Craigleith Men's Day 2016

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men's Super-G Official Results. 6 February 2015.
  2. Web site: Dustin Cook. alpinecanada.org. dead. 2011-09-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20110924035858/http://alpinecanada.org/athlete/cook. 19 September 2018 .
  3. Web site: Competitors having more than one podium. data.fis-ski.com.
  4. Web site: Cook captures World Championship silver. 5 February 2015.
  5. Web site: COOK Dustin - Biographie. data.fis-ski.com.
  6. Web site: WINNA.COM. cowboysracing.com.