1. Kenneth John Read was born on November 6,1955 and is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Canada.
22 Facts About Ken Read
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Ken Read was a specialist in the downhill and a two-time Olympian.
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Ken Read won five World Cup races during his ten-year international career, all in downhill.
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Ken Read is the father of World Cup alpine racers Erik and Jeffrey Read.
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Ken Read was a member of the Canadian alpine ski team from 1973 to 1983, competing for nine seasons on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.
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Ken Read competed in two Olympic Winter Games and two FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.
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Canadian Corner, a section of the Lauberhorn near Wengen in Switzerland - the heavily twisting curve at the left-hand transition to the Alpweg is named after the Crazy Canucks, as both Dave Irwin and Ken Read fell here in 1976.
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Ken Read went on to win four more World Cup downhill races and his point total for the 1980 season placed him second in the downhill final standings.
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Ken Read was the first non-European to win both the Austrian downhill Hahnenkamm at Kitzbuhel, and the Swiss race Lauberhorn at Wengen.
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Ken Read was named Canada's Athlete of the Year in 1978 and Canadian Male Amateur Athlete of the Year in 1980.
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Ken Read was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, into Canada's Skiing Hall of Fame in 1986, and to the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Ken Read launched the "Breath of Life" Ski Challenge, which, over the next 23 years raised over $3.8 million for cystic fibrosis research.
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In May 2010 Ken Read was named director, Winter Sport for Own The Podium, Canada's high-performance program supporting athletes and National Sport Organizations in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, resigning in April 2013.
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Ken Read has been active within Canadian and international sport for over 40 years, initially as the founding chair of the Canadian Olympic Association Athletes Council and subsequently, a member of the International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission.
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Ken Read served as Chef de Mission for the 1992 Canadian Team to Barcelona, where the Canadian Team won 18 medals including a record 7 gold medals.
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In 1988, Ken Read was named to the International Ski Federation's Alpine Committee Executive Board, overseeing the discipline of alpine skiing.
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Between October 2006 and July 2014, Ken Read was a member of the ownership group of the Mount Norquay ski resort in Banff National Park.
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Ken Read is an alumnus of the Ottawa Ski Club and Lake Louise Ski Club.
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The Ken Read family are members of the Banff Alpine Racers, located at Banff Mount Norquay, Alberta.
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Ken Read responds that the other countries wouldn't agree to it.
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Oscar says the old Ken Read would have done it, the Crazy Canuck Ken Read.
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Ken Read responds that he's not crazy anymore, with Oscar acknowledging it and then claiming that he is useless.