Chris Devlin-Young

Devlin-Young in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Devlin-Young
Born	December 26, 1962 (1962-12-26) (age 63) San Diego,California, U.S.
Medal record Men'spara alpine skiing Representingthe United States Winter Paralympic Games 1994 Lillehammer Slalom 2002 Salt Lake City Super-G 2002 Salt Lake City Downhill 2006 Torino Downhill Winter X Games 2015 Aspen Mono Skier X 2008 Aspen Mono Skier X

Christopher Devlin-Young (born December 26, 1962) is an Americanalpine ski racer and two timeParalympic Champion, who resides inCampton, New Hampshire. He competes as amonoskier in the LW 12–1 class.

Born inSan Diego, Young wasparalyzed in a plane crash in Alaska while serving in theUnited States Coast Guard in 1982.^[1] He learned to ski at theNational Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic in 1986 as a "four-tracker," standing on two skis while using outriggers. He was named to theU.S. Disabled Ski Team in 1989 and competed in the1990 Disabled Skiing World Championships inWinter Park, Colorado, winning asilver medal and twobronzes in the LW-1 class. Young missed the1992 Winter Paralympic team but qualified for the1994 Games inLillehammer, Norway, where he wongold in theslalom.

In 1995 Young began a two-year hiatus from racing to coach the New England Disabled Ski team at Loon Mtn. New Hampshire, and when he returned to the sport in 1997 it was as amonoskier. He missed the1998 Winter Paralympics inNagano, Japan but came back in2002 with anothergold, this time insuper G, along with asilver indownhill. With that performance he became the first skier ever to win a Paralympic skiing gold medal in two different disability classes.^[2] He repeated hisdownhill performance in2006, placing second behind teammate Kevin Bramble. In 2015, he won the Mono Skier X (X-Games), also becoming the oldest gold medalist in the history of the competition.^[3]

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• Christopher Devlin-Young at theInternational Paralympic Committee
• Christopher Devlin-Young at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
• Chris Young at theInternational Paralympic Committee
• Chris Devlin-Young at theX Games (archived)

• 1962 births
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• American male alpine skiers
• Paralympic alpine skiers for the United States
• Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
• Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
• Paralympic medalists in alpine skiing
• Alpine skiers at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
• Alpine skiers at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
• Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
• Medalists at the 1994 Winter Paralympics
• Medalists at the 2002 Winter Paralympics
• Medalists at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
• X Games competitors
• People from Campton, New Hampshire
• 21st-century American sportsmen
• 20th-century American sportsmen

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