Nick Zoricic

Nikola Zoricic was a Bosnian-Canadian ski cross skier, born in Sarajevo on 19 February 1983, who grew up in Toronto after emigrating to Canada with his family at the age of five. He was an alpine ski racer first, and in December 1998 he was ranked number one in the world in slalom for his age group. In 2008 he switched to freestyle skiing and made his ski cross World Cup debut on 19 January 2009 in Lake Placid. His greatest success came in the 2010 to 2011 season, when he took his first World Cup podium on 7 January 2011 with second place at St. Johann in Tyrol, and a third place followed at Les Contamines-Montjoie in January 2012. He died on 10 March 2012 after a severe crash in the eighth-finals of a World Cup event in Grindelwald, Switzerland. This entry is written from the English Wikipedia article on Nick Zoricic.