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Victor Ivan "Vic" Wild (Russian: Виктор Айван Уайлд; born August 23, 1986) is an American-born Russian snowboarder.

Vic Wild

Wild in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Victor Ivan Wild
Citizenship	Russia
Born	White Salmon, Washington, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight	175 lb (79 kg)
Sport
Country	Russia
Sport	Snowboarding
Medal record Men's snowboarding Representing  Russia Olympic Games 2014 Sochi Parallel Slalom 2014 Sochi Parallel Giant Slalom FIS Snowboarding World Championships 2013 Stoneham Parallel Giant Slalom Representing  ROC Olympic Games 2022 Beijing Parallel Giant Slalom

Career

Wild won a bronze medal in the parallel giant slalom at the 2013 FIS Snowboarding World Championships[1] and gold medals in the parallel slalom and parallel giant slalom at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, which made him the first snowboarder ever to win two medals at the same Winter Games.[2] At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, he won a bronze medal in parallel giant.

Wild originally competed for the United States, but after the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association shut down its alpine snowboarding program. According to a 2014 story by Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports, Wild had been viewed by US snowboarding officials "as an enfant terrible, someone who didn't understand alpine's place in the [USA] snowboarding power structure. Halfpipe is king, with slopestyle creeping up in importance, and snowboardcross racing third."[2] One of Wild's former coaches indicated that before its closure, the alpine snowboarding program had a budget of $135,000, a fraction of the funding needed for an internationally competitive team.[2] This is mainly caused by the fact that the United States remains the only country in the world not to fund its Olympic Committee, that is why available funding is limited.[3]

Instead of ending his career, Wild opted to leave the country; when he married Russian snowboarder Alena Zavarzina in 2011, Wild applied for Russian citizenship.[2] After winning gold for Russia at the Sochi Olympics, Wild commented, "Russia is a country that made it possible for me to win."[4]

Wild received the Order For Merit to the Fatherland Award 4th class, with Russian President Vladimir Putin distributing the state awards.[5][6]

References

External links

• FIS-Ski.com Profile Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

На других языках

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- [en] Vic Wild

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[fr] Vic Wild

Vic Wild (en russe : Виктор Айван Уайлд), né le 23 août 1986, est un snowboardeur russe d'origine américaine spécialisé dans les épreuves de slalom parallèle et de slalom géant parallèle. Il a opté en 2011 pour la nationalité russe à la suite de son union avec la snowboardeuse russe Alena Zavarzina, avec lequel il divorcera.

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[it] Vic Wild

Victor Ivan Wild, detto Vic (in russo: Виктор Айван Уайлд?; White Salmon, 23 agosto 1986), è uno snowboarder statunitense naturalizzato russo, campione olimpico di slalom gigante parallelo e di slalom parallelo ai Giochi di Soči 2014.

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[ru] Уайлд, Вик

Вик А́йван Уа́йлд (англ. Vic Ivan Wild,[2] согласно российским документам — Виктор Айван Вайлд;[3][4] род. 23 августа 1986, Уайт-Салмон, штат Вашингтон) — российский сноубордист американского происхождения. Заслуженный мастер спорта России (2014).

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