Dale Begg-Smith
OAM

Personal information
Born	(1985-01-18)18 January 1985 (age 41)[1] Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada[1]
Height	186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)[1]
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Moguls skiing
Medal record Men'sMoguls skiing Representing Australia Olympic Games 2006 Turin Moguls 2010 Vancouver Moguls FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 2007 Madonna di Campiglio Dual moguls 2007 Madonna di Campiglio Moguls 2005 Ruka Moguls

Dale Begg-SmithOAM (born 18 January 1985) is an Australian-Canadian businessman and former Olympicfreestyle skier.^[2] Begg-Smith won thegold medal for Australia in the men'smoguls event at the2006 Winter Olympics and silver at the2010 Winter Olympics.

Begg-Smith formed an internet company when he was 13 years old.^[3] He was skiing for his native Canada as a teenager when his coaches told him he was spending too much time on his successful business and not enough time in training.^[3]

So Begg-Smith quit the Canadian ski program and, along with his brotherJason Begg-Smith, moved to Australia at age 16 to live with his cousin Nicole.^[4] The brothers chose toski for Australia because the country had a smaller ski program that offered them more attention and flexibility to successfully manage their business.^[3]

The brothers stayed out of competitive skiing for three years and instead trained with the Australian team, living inJindabyne, New South Wales each winter. The pair qualified for Australian citizenship, in 2003–04, after three years and were then free to compete for their adopted country.^[3]

Begg-Smith is one of only seven Australians to win a gold medal in a Winter Games and the youngest to win an Olympic Gold in the history of men's freestyle mogul skiing.^[4][5]

In the lead-up to the 2006 Winter Games, Dale Begg-Smith won three World Cup rounds and was ranked world number one in the moguls' discipline.^[6]

Begg-Smith holds the record for qualifying for the most consecutive World Cup finals in events he entered. In March 2010, he reached his 48th consecutive final. His fourth World Cup title in 2010 also put him even with French SkierEdgar Grospiron for most World Cup wins.^[7]

Begg-Smith won silver at the2010 Winter Olympics held in his native Vancouver, leading to some complaints about biased-judging from members of the Australian coaching staff.^{[8][9][10][11][12]} "Sometimes you're in the good graces of the judges, sometimes you're not," Gold medalistAlex Bilodeau said. "Judged sports can't be perfect. It can be a bad part of my sport. I see it. But everybody is going to be equal in the end."^[12]

Begg-Smith represented Australia at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi,^[13] reaching the 2nd qualifying round.^[14]

Begg-Smith is considered a recluse by many, and has repeatedly refused to communicate with non-Australian media, Canadian media in particular.^[15]NBC dubbed him "the most mysterious man of the Winter Olympics" in a piece aired on 14 February 2010, during the Vancouver games.^[16]

Alisa Monk, coordinator of the moguls program, said that she booked Begg-Smith's hotels and flights economically, despite his wealth. "Wherever the team stays, he stays. There are certainly no big demands. You wouldn't know he had a bit of money." She also said, "When he is atPerisher he stays in the same hut as the other mogul skiers and his brother."^[17]

After the2010 Haiti earthquake, Begg-Smith donated his prize money – about $13,670 – to earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.^[18]

There are claims that Begg-Smith's internet advertising business,Ads CPM later calledCPM Media, had been linked to the distribution ofmalware.^[19][20] TheSydney Morning Herald reported that "a trail of digital fingerprints scattered over the web... shows Mr Begg-Smith's long and rewarding involvement in the distribution of "malicious software".^[21] Begg-Smith's manager, David Malina, said reports about his client's business had been "exaggerated", and that "it's not really something that he's involved with anymore ... he's minimised his involvement to concentrate on his sport."^[21]

On 21 February 2006,Australia Post issued a postage stamp commemorating Begg-Smith's achievement, saying his gold put him in a "small and honoured group of athletes".^[22] In 2005, he was awardedSki and Snowboard Australia's Snowsports Athlete of the Year.^[23]

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• Begg-Smith wins another World Cup crownThe Sydney Morning Herald, 19 March 2010
• NBC Olympics Profile: Dale Begg-SmithArchived 16 February 2010 at theWayback Machine
• Dale [raises] the question: can Australia win a mogul medal in Turin?The Sydney Morning Herald, 24 January 2006.
• 'Spam man' wins goldThe Age, 16 February 2006.
• AP Winter Games Profile: Dale Begg-Smith
• Dale Begg-Smith currently living onGrand Cayman Island

• 1985 births
• Living people
• Australian male freestyle skiers
• Olympic freestyle skiers for Australia
• Skiers from Vancouver
• Freestyle skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics
• Freestyle skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics
• Freestyle skiers at the 2014 Winter Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for Australia
• Olympic silver medalists for Australia
• Australian businesspeople
• Businesspeople from Vancouver
• Canadian emigrants to Australia
• Olympic medalists in freestyle skiing
• Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics
• Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
• Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
• 21st-century Australian sportsmen

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