Maxence "Max" Parrot (born June 6, 1994) is a Canadian snowboarder who is a seven-time X Games champion and Olympic silver medallist. He represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, winning the silver medal in the latter.
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationality | Canadian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 6, 1994[1] Cowansville, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | https://maxparrot.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Snowboarding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Slopestyle, Big air | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Olympic finals | 2014 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Early lifeEdit
Parrot was born and raised near the Bromont ski area in Quebec. He began skiing at age 3 and discovered snowboarding at age 9.[3] His father, Alain Parrot, was an alpine ski racer and Canadian waterski champion.[4][5]
CareerEdit
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.[6] 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 the X Games in Aspen, earning him his second Big Air gold medal.[7] He competes in slopestyle and represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.[8][9] 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."[10]
In January 2022, Parrot was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team.[11][12][13]
Personal lifeEdit
On January 17, 2019, Parrot announced he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma on December 21, 2018 and that he had started a 6-month course of chemotherapy. In early July 2019, Parrot announced that he had 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.[14]
ReferencesEdit
- ^ "Maxence Parrot". La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ^ a b "Profile". Snowboarding Canada. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
- ^ "Une médaille pour les Parrot". La Presse (in French). February 7, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
- ^ Cantin, Philippe (February 7, 2014). "Une médaille pour les Parrot" [A Medal for the Parrots]. La Presse (in Canadian French). Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ^ "Our Ambassadors: Max Parrot". 2017 World Gymnastics Championships. Archived from the original on January 4, 2017. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ^ O'Neil, Devon (January 25, 2014). "With two X Games golds, Max Parrot remains an underdog". ESPN. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ^ "Max Parrot Talks About The First Quad Flip, Haters, And What's Next". TransWorld SNOWboarding. April 23, 2015. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
- ^ "Mark McMorris breaks rib in X Games slopestyle final". CBC Sports. January 25, 2014.
- ^ Bane, Colin (January 25, 2014). "Mark McMorris breaks rib during Slopestyle finals". X Games. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "Parrot, McMorris claim Canada's 1st medals, take silver and bronze in snowboard slopestyle". CBC Sports. February 10, 2018.
- ^ Nichols, Paula (January 19, 2022). "19 snowboarders nominated to Team Canada for Beijing 2022". www.olympic.ca/. Canadian Olympic Committee. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
- ^ Dichter, Myles (January 19, 2022). "'Strongest team in all of snowboarding': Canadian squad named for Beijing Olympics". www.cbc.ca/. CBC Sports. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
- ^ "Toutant, McMorris, Parrot, Blouin return as Canada's Olympic snowboard team announced". Canadian Press. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. January 19, 2022. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
- ^ "Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma". CBC Sports. January 17, 2019. Retrieved January 17, 2019.
External linksEdit
- Maxence Parrot at FIS (snowboarding)
- Maxence Parrot at Olympics.com
- Maxence Parrot at the Canadian Olympic Committee
- Maxence Parrot at Olympedia
- Maxence Parrot at the X Games
