Greg Athans

✶June 18, 1955

†August 8, 2006

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About their life

Greg Athans was a Canadian freestyle skier competing from 1976 to 1986 winning titles in multiple disciplines. Athans was also Canadian national waterskiing champion on fifteen occasions. He competed in the Canada Games, winning gold medals in the alpine slalom in 1971, and water skiing in 1973, becoming the first athlete to win gold medals at both the summer and winter games. In 1981, he was the best all-round competitor at the 1980 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup, winning the World Cup Grand Prix Award. He retired in 1982.

Canadian freestyle skier (1955-2006)

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Biography from the article Greg Athans on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.