Christopher Scott Hastings (born August 17, 1964) is a champion ski jumper born in Hanover, New Hampshire

Hanover, New Hampshire

Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2010 census. CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007....

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Biography

Chris attended the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

The University of Vermont comprises seven undergraduate schools, an honors college, a graduate college, and a college of medicine. The Honors College does not offer its own degrees; students in the Honors College concurrently enroll in one of the university's seven undergraduate colleges or...

, and was the normal hill US ski jumping champion in both 1985 and 1987. This qualified him for the 1988 Olympics

1988 Winter Olympics

The 1988 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XV Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event celebrated in and around Calgary, Alberta, Canada from 13 to 28 February 1988. The host was selected in 1981 after having beat Falun, Sweden and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy...

 in Calgary

Calgary

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, where he placed 49th overall in the Individual Men's Large Hill ski jumping event. He went on to coach ski jumping for the Ford-Sayre Memorial Ski Council in Hanover, New Hampshire and for the New York Ski Education Foundation. For this, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association

United States Ski and Snowboard Association

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association is the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding. Founded in 1905, the century-old organization provides leadership and direction for tens of thousands of young skiers and snowboarders from over 400 member clubs who share an Olympic...

 honored him with an International Jumping Coach of Year award in 1992.

He is the brother of Jeff Hastings

Jeff Hastings

Jeffrey Paul "Jeff" Hastings was an American ski jumper who competed in the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984...

, a member of the US ski jumping team for the 1984 Olympics

1984 Winter Olympics

The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated from 8–19 February 1984 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Other candidate cities were Sapporo, Japan; and Gothenburg, Sweden...

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