Kurt
Oatway

Para alpine skier Kurt Oatway won the gold medal in the sitting Super G at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. His career is characterized by success, resilience and longevity.

Oatway would have been at the 2022 Games in Beijing but was severely injured (broken collarbone, two torn ligaments, three broken ribs in five places, and a punctured lung) in a crash roughly one month prior at the world championships in Lillehammer.

Since then, he has posted some of the best performances of his career leading to Milano Cortina 2026. In 2024-25 he earned nine World Cup medals including three victories.

In 2025-26, he missed the first half of the World Cup season but returned with a vengeance posting four medals in six races in January and February 2026 including victories in the downhill in Tignes, France and Super G in Saalbach, Austria.

A four-time world championship team member, Oatway collected silver medals in the Super G and downhill in 2017. At the 2025 worlds, his best events, the speed events, were cancelled.

He produced a career-best season in 2015-16. He ranked first in the downhill, second in the giant slalom and third overall on the IPC World Cup circuit.

Oatway won a bronze medal in slalom in his first ever IPC Alpine Skiing World Cup competition, which was held in New Zealand and launched the 2013-14 season.

He capped that season by competing at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, finishing fifth in downhill.

Oatway had just graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a B.Sc. in Geology when he was watching the Olympics and Paralympics and became inspired to start skiing again. His first foray into the sport in the sit-ski was at Mission Ridge Ski Hill in the Qu’Appelle Valley outside of Regina, in March 2010.

Oatway has been alpine skiing since he was five. He started sit-skiing in 2010 after an accident. In September 2007, while on a university field trip studying sedimentary environments in Utah, Oatway was injured in a fall.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

2018 and 2014 Paralympic Winter Games (gold medallist in the super G 2018) … 2023, 2019, 2017, 2015 World Championships (two silver medals in 2019) …

PERSONAL

Oatway studied geology at Mount Royal College in Calgary and the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon… graduated in 2010 from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Science, majoring in geology… has a keen interest in sedimentary and hard rock geology

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

2025 World Championships – slalom – 6^th

2025 World Championships – giant slalom – 6^th

2023 World Championships – giant slalom – 4^th

2023 World Championships – downhill – 4^th

2023 World Championships – Super G – 5^th

2019 World Championships – Super G – 2^nd

2019 World Championships – downhill – 2^nd

2019 World Championships – super combined – 4^th

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – super G – 1st

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – downhill – 8th

2018 Paralympic Winter Games – giant slalom – 12th

2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships – downhill – 10th

2015 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships – giant slalom – 10th

2014 Paralympic Winter Games – downhill – 5th

2014 Paralympic Winter Games – Super G – 9th