Maxence Parrot

Maxence "Max" Parrot (born June 6, 1994) is a Canadian snowboarder who is a seven-time X Games champion and Olympic silver medalist. He represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, winning the silver medal in the latter.

Maxence Parrot
Personal information
NationalityCanadian
Born (1994-06-06) June 6, 1994[1]
Cowansville, Quebec
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Weight75 kg (165 lb)[2]
Sport
CountryCanada
SportSnowboarding
Event(s)Slopestyle, Big air
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals2014 2018
Medal record
Men's snowboarding
Representing  Canada
Olympic Games
2018 PyeongchangSlopestyle
Winter X Games
2014 AspenBig Air
2014 AspenSlopestyle
2016 AspenBig Air
2017 AspenBig Air
2018 AspenBig Air
2020 AspenBig Air
2013 AspenSlopestyle
2015 AspenBig Air
Winter X Games Europe
2016 OsloBig Air
2017 HafjellBig Air
2019 OsloBig air
2020 HafjellSlopestyle
2020 HafjellBig air

Early life

Parrot was born and raised near the Bromont ski area in Quebec. He began skiing at age 3 and discovered snowboarding at age 10. His father, Alan Parrot, was an alpine ski racer national hopeful and Canadian waterski champion.[3][4]

Career

Max Parrot has made snowboarding history four times. In 2013 he laid down the first Backside Triple Cork ever seen in an X Games Slopestyle event. In 2014, Parrot was the first to land consecutive Triple jumps in a Slopestyle run at the X Games.[5] In April 2015, Parrot performed the very first Cab Quadruple Underflip 1620. In January 2016, he brought the Cab 1800 Triple Cork into competition at X Games in Aspen, earning him his second Big Air gold medal.[6] He competes in slopestyle and represented Canada in this event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.[7][8] Parrot has won a gold and silver medal each in both slopestyle and the big air events at the Winter X Games.

He competed for Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea where his first competition was in the slopestyle event. Parrot qualified for the final with the highest score, but in the final, he started with difficulty. He fell heavily on his first two of three runs, on his final run he threw down a clean run, scoring 86.00. This was good enough for the silver medal and his teammate Mark McMorris finished in third for the bronze medal. After the run Parrot said that "I hit my head twice, a couple were pretty hard actually. But I'm fine, I'm good. My helmet saved me twice and it made it possible to do my third run and actually land it. It's mission accomplished for me here. I'm really happy."[9]

Personal life

On 17 January 2019, Parrot announced he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma on 21 December 2018 and that he had started a 6-month course of chemotherapy. In early July 2019, Parrot announced he has beaten Hodgkin’s lymphoma. On August 31, 2 months after his final round of chemotherapy, he won the X Games snowboard big air event in Oslo, Norway.[10]

References
  1. "Maxence Parrot". La Presse (in French). Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  2. "Profile". Snowboarding Canada. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
  3. Cantin, Philippe (February 7, 2014). "Une médaille pour les Parrot" [A Medal for the Parrots]. La Presse (in French). Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  4. "Our Ambassadors: Max Parrot". 2017 World Gymnastics Championships. Archived from the original on 4 January 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  5. O'Neil, Devon (January 25, 2014). "With two X Games golds, Max Parrot remains an underdog". ESPN. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  6. "Max Parrot Talks About The First Quad Flip, Haters, And What's Next". TransWorld SNOWboarding. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  7. "Mark McMorris breaks rib in X Games slopestyle final". CBC Sports. January 25, 2014.
  8. Bane, Colin (25 January 2014). "Mark McMorris breaks rib during Slopestyle finals". X Games. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  9. "Parrot, McMorris claim Canada's 1st medals, take silver and bronze in snowboard slopestyle". CBC Sports. February 10, 2018.
  10. "Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma". CBC Sports. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
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