Kurt
Oatway

Para alpine skier Kurt Oatway won the gold medal in the sitting Super G at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games.

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 into Milano Cortina 2026. In 2024-25 he earned nine World Cup medals including three victories.

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. A few days later, he added a fourth in the Super G.

In January 2014, Oatway’s success continued, placing fourth in downhill at the World Cup in Panorama, B.C. He capped the season 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.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

2018 – Paralympic Winter Games gold medallist in the super G… A gold and silver in downhill races at 2016 World Cup Final… Ranked first for the season in downhill, second in giant slalom and third overall in 2016… Competed at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games…

PERSONAL

Oatway has been alpine skiing since he was five… 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…. he fell 12 metres from a rock outcrop, suffering a radial compression fracture of the T12 vertebra, which resulted in an incomplete spinal cord injury. 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 and hopes to pursue a professional career in that area.

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

• 2018 Paralympic Winter Games – super G – 1st
• 2018 Paralympic Winter Games – downhill – 8th
• 2018 Paralympic Winter Games – giant slalom – 12th
• 2017 World Cup (Austria) – downhill #1 – 3rd
• 2017 World Cup (Austria) – downhill #2 -2nd
• 2016 World Cup Final – downhill #1 – 1st
• 2016 Word Cup Final – downhill #2 – 2nd
• 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