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Place of Birth: Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
About Davey Barr
- Davey Barr (born March 3, 1977) is a Canadian freestyle skier currently residing in Whistler, British Columbia.
- Davey Barr is a member of the Canadian national ski cross team. Barr managed his first world championship medal, a bronze, in 2009.
- His highest ranking on the World Cup tour was 3rd during the 2007-08 season.
- Barr won the first ever FIS world cup ski cross event held in North America at Deer Valley in 2008.
- The 2010 Vancouver Olympics will be taking place in his hometown of Whistler, British Columbia.
- Davey Barr was not originally selected by the Canadian Freestyle Ski Association to attend those games; however, he attended as a replacement for Brady Leman of Calgary, Alberta.
- Leman himself was a replacement for Dave Duncan who broke his right clavicle bone during a training run.Barr qualified for the 1/8 finals with a time of 1:14:98, ranking him 25th out of 33 skiers.
- There, he avoided a near-collision between Simon Stickl of Germany and Anders Rekdal of Denmark to finish second.
- In the quarterfinals, Barr fought against Kerr, only to surpass him on the first turn and remain second throughout the heat.
- The semifinals saw Barr struggle to retain his position in third, sending him to the B-Final.
- Barr trailed the pack for the grand majority of the race, until a fall by Slovenia's Filip Flisar caused Australia's Scott Kneller to ski off-course, allowing him to place sixth overall.
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