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Viviane Forest
Canadian multi-sport Paralympian
Viviane Forest (born 14 May 1979) is a Canadian multi-sport Paralympic medallist. She was born and raised in Quebec, and currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta.[1]
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Canada | ||
| Goalball | ||
| Paralympic Games | ||
 | 2000 Sydney | Women's goalball |
| 2004 Athens | Women's goalball |
| Alpine skiing | ||
| Paralympic Games | ||
| 2010 Vancouver | Women's downhill (visually impaired) |
 | 2010 Vancouver | Women's slalom (visually impaired) |
| 2010 Vancouver | Women's Super-G (visually impaired) |
| 2010 Vancouver | Women's combined (visually impaired) |
 | 2010 Vancouver | Women's giant slalom (visually impaired) |
| IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships | ||
| 2013 La Molina | Giant slalom, (visually impaired) |
| 2013 La Molina | Slalom, (visually impaired) |
Forest played on Canada's gold medal-winning goalball teams in Sydney and Athens.
She won a silver at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver for slalom (Visually Impaired), with a time of 2:01.45, 0.89 seconds behind the winner, Sabine Gasteiger of Austria.[2]
She won a bronze in the 2010 Winter Paralympics for giant slalom for women's visually impaired.[3][4]
She won gold at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Whistler Creekside for Women's Visually Impaired Downhill. This made her the first para-athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games.[1][3][4]
Her skiing guide is Lindsay Debou. Their personal sponsors are The Weather Network and Fischer.[5]
Beyond the Paralympics, her results include:
2009 World IPC Championships-High 1 Korea
- Gold Medalist- Super-Combined
- Silver Medalist- Downhill
- Silver Medalist- Giant slalom
- Silver Medalist- Slalom
- Silver Medalist- SG
2009 World Cup Finals-Whistler, BC
- Gold Medalist- Giant slalom
- Gold Medalist- Downhill
- Silver Medalist- Super combined
- Silver Medalist- Super G
- Vancouver Sun, "Para-alpine star Viviane Forest has potential for huge Games medal haul" Archived 24 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, John Korobanik, 11 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
- Telegraph-Journal, "Games: Canucks remain undefeated in sledge hockey, curling", Canadian Press, 15 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
- The Gazette (Montreal), "‘Tough cookie’ Forest wins second Paralympic medal", Mike Beamish, 16 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
- Vancouver Sun, "Paralympic para-alpine skiing: Canada’s Viviane Forest does the trifecta, wins visually impaired downhill gold" Archived 23 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Mike Beamish, 18 March 2010 (accessed 19 March 2010)
- The Weather Network (Canada), "Weather News: The Weather Network is proud to sponsor Canadian Para-Alpine athlete Viviane Forest." (accessed 15 March 2010)
- Viviane Forest: Going for Gold, official website
- Viviane and Lindsay 2010, partially archived official site
- Canadian Paralympic Committee profile