Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau

Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau (born October 6, 1979 in Drummondville, Quebec) is a Canadian freestyle skier who currently resides in Drummondville. Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau participates in the mogul discipline.

Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau
Personal information
Born (1979-10-06) October 6, 1979
Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st)
Sport
Country Canada
SportFreestyle skiing
Medal record
Men's freestyle skiing
Representing  Canada
FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
2007 Madonna di CampiglioMoguls
2001 WhistlerMoguls

Rousseau has been part of two historic sweeps of the medal podiums on the 2008-09 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup tour with Alexandre Bilodeau and Vincent Marquis.[1] Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau was the world champion at the 2007 Freestyle Ski World Championships in the moguls event. Rousseau also achieved at silver in the moguls event of the 2001 World Championships at Blackcomb.

At the age of 30, Rousseau competed in his first Olympic Games at the 2010 Winter Olympics, placing fifth. Rousseau had previously missed the 2002 Winter Olympics because of a neck injury, and was left off the team in Turin.[2]

References
  1. http://www.freestyleski.com/en/index.php/2009/mission-not-so-impossible-%E2%80%93-canadian-mogul-men-sweep-again/ Canadian Men Sweep
  2. Randy Starkman (13 February 2010). "`Has-been' finally gets Games shot". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2010-02-16.


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