Follow My Journey

This is where you can come to follow my journey and keep up to date with my experiences along the way. I ask for your support to help me achieve my life long goal of standing on top of that Olympic podium for Canada one day. Due to funding cuts, my sport is now completely self-funded; training and competing are costly.  

Born in Calgary in 1991, I am currently 23 years old and I compete for Canada on the National Skeleton team. I’ve been training as an athlete since I was seven years old.  From the moment I first sped down the Skeleton track at Canada Olympic Park, I fell in love with the sport and knew I wanted to devote myself to training, with the goal of standing on the Olympic podium one day as a Skeleton champion.

Though I started Skeleton in 2010, my intense training and Olympic dream started long before then.  In 1998, at the age of seven, I began training in Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined.  I trained for 12 years in those disciplines - four years on the National team - during which time I had the opportunity to compete in several World Junior Championships along with Continental and World Cups around the world.

Those 12 years as a Ski Jump/Nordic Combined competitor shaped me into the athlete and person I am today, and provided me with the competitive edge that fuels my dedication, determination and drive to be the best. I had the incredible opportunity to forerun the Ski Jumping events at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver – being part of the Olympics in that small way confirmed my unwavering desire to experience it as a contender athlete one day. Today, I remain involved with Ski Jump/Nordic Combined as a provincial level coach.

I’m now entering my fifth season as a Skeleton athlete; I am a World Junior medalist, winner of the America’s Cup circuit, and the top North American Junior. Over the next several years, it’s my goal to stand on the podium at the Junior World Championships (again), World Championships, various World Cups and, eventually, the Olympic Winter Games.   In order to do that however, I need assistance with the expenses of training and competing since the sport is now completely self-funded.

I am just one guy with a big dream; they say it takes a village. Won't you please become part of my village and help me bring home the Gold for Canada?  Please visit the Support Me tab for more information on how you can get involved.  

Cheers!
Barrett Martineau