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Viviane Forest (born 14 May 1979) is a multi-sport Paralympic medallist. She was born and raised in Quebec, and currently resides in Edmonton.

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Sporting career

Forest played on Canada's gold medal-winning goalball teams in Sydney and Athens.

She won a silver at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver for slalom (Visually Impaired), with a time of 2:01.45, 0.89 seconds behind the winner, Sabine Gasteiger of Austria.

She won a bronze in the 2010 Winter Paralympics for giant slalom for women's visually impaired.

She won gold at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Whistler Creekside for Women's Visually Impaired Downhill. This made her the first para-athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games.

Her skiing guide is Lindsay Debou. Their personal sponsors are The Weather Network and Fischer.

Results

Beyond the Paralympics, her results include:

2009 World IPC Championships-High 1 Korea

  • Gold Medalist- Super-Combined
  • Silver Medalist- Downhill
  • Silver Medalist- Giant Slalom
  • Silver Medalist- Slalom
  • Silver Medalist- SG
  • 2009 World Cup Finals-Whistler, BC

  • Gold Medalist- Giant Slalom
  • Gold Medalist- Downhill
  • Silver Medalist- Super combined
  • Silver Medalist- Super G
  • References

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