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WMSC’s Cam Alexander wins downhill gold in Kvitfjell World Cup

Alexander’s win continues trend of recent success seen by the new crew of B.C. bombers on the Canadian Alpine Team, which includes other WMSC products Broderick Thompson, Brodie Seger and Jack Crawford.
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WMSC's Cam Alexander captures first World Cup win of his career in Kvitfjell, Norway on Friday.Photo courtesy of Alpine Canada

The momentum keeps building, and the results keep coming for the Canadian Alpine Team.

Friday Morning in Kvitfjell, Norway, North Vancouver native and Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) alum Cam Alexander made the improbable jump from the 39th start position to the top spot on a World Cup podium, topping his previous best of 10th-place on the same track in 2020.

"I know I can ski fast here; I know I have speed... all I had to do was just let go and try to give it my best,” said Alexander in an Alpine Canada press release. “That’s what I did and what do you know, I'm on top of the podium. It's surprising but at the same time this is what I do the sport for—it feels really good."

His winning time of 1:44.42, was shared by Switzerland’s Niels Hintermann, with Austria’s Matthias Mayer taking the third podium spot.

Coming off an injury that kept him out of action most of last season and the beginning of this one, this win, in just his third World Cup start of the season and 14th of his career, marks a first for Alexander and the first Downhill gold since Erik Guay took the top spot on the same track in Kvitfjell in 2014. The last World Cup gold by a Canadian in a speed event was won by Dustin Cook in Super-G in Méribel, France in 2015.

Alexander’s first World Cup win comes on the heel of teammate Jack Crawford’s historic Olympic bronze medal in Alpine Combined in February.

But they aren’t the only two WMSC products lighting it up on the world stage lately. Whistler’s Broderick Thompson took home a third-place finish in Super-G at the Beaver Creek World Cup earlier this year and both Brodie Seger and Crawford skied to fourth-place finishes at last year’s World Championships in Super-G and Alpine Combined, respectively. Thompson and Seger also finished eighth and ninth, respectively, in Alpine Combined at the Olympics last month.

Following in the footsteps of the Canadian Cowboys, whose dominance made Canada a threat to podium at every major event from the mid-2000s to the mid-2010s, it’s safe to say this new crew of B.C. bombers has vaulted Canada back into the Alpine skiing spotlight for years to come.

After completion of the Kvitfjell World Cup on March 6, Team Canada will be heading to France for the final stop on the World Cup circuit in Couchevel from March 16 to 20.