Nancy Catherine Greene OC OBC OD LLD (hc) (born May 11, 1943) is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
At the age of three, Nancy Greene's family moved to Rossland, British Columbia, a mountainous area and the site of the first ski competition ever held in Canada in 1897. The child of avid skiers, Greene began at a young ag...
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Nancy Catherine Greene OC OBC OD LLD (hc) (born May 11, 1943) is a Canadian Senator for British Columbia and a champion alpine skier voted as Canada's Female Athlete of the 20th Century. She was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
At the age of three, Nancy Greene's family moved to Rossland, British Columbia, a mountainous area and the site of the first ski competition ever held in Canada in 1897. The child of avid skiers, Greene began at a young age and while in high school she competed in the Canadian Junior Championships. She would go on to become Canada's most decorated ski racer in history with the most World Cup victories, male or female.
Nicknamed "Tiger" because of her go for it attitude and her aggressive style of skiing, she won the Canadian ski championship six times and the United States championship, three times. In 1967, Nancy Greene broke the European domination of the sport, becoming the first skier to win the World Cup. That year she won seven of 16 events, taking the...
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