Dave Irwin

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Dave Irwin (born July 12, 1954 in Thunder Bay, Ontario) was a two-time Canadian Olympic downhill skier and World Cup champion. He was a member of the 'Crazy Canucks', a group of Canadian alpine ski racers who dominated the World Cup in the 1970s. He currently lives in Canmore, Alberta, near the Rockie Mountains.

[edit] As a youth

Irwin had learned to ski at eighteen months of age. His very first ski race was at six years of age.

[edit] Traumatic brain injury

Dave Irwin suffered a traumatic brain injury on a training run for an Export A Skier-Cross event on March 24, 2001. He recovered from the injury to create the Dave Irwin Foundation for Brain Injury.

[edit] References

• The Dave Irwin Foundation for Brain Injury