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.

Sporting career

Forest played on Canada's gold medal-winning goalball teams in Sydney and Athens.

Viviane Forest

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.

Viviane Forest

She won a bronze in the 2010 Winter Paralympics for giant slalom for women's visually impaired.

Viviane Forest

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.

Her skiing guide is Lindsay Debou. Their personal sponsors are The Weather Network and Fischer.

Results

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

References

External links

Viviane Forest: Going for Gold, official website

Viviane and Lindsay 2010, partially archived official site

Canadian Paralympic Committee profile

1979 births

Living people

Canadian female alpine skiers

Female goalball players

Paralympic goalball players for Canada

Goalball players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Goalball players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Paralympic alpine skiers for Canada

Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

Paralympic gold medalists for Canada

Paralympic silver medalists for Canada

Visually impaired category Paralympic competitors

Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics

Medalists at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

Articles containing video clips

Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing

Canadian blind people