Career
He is Canada"s most successful slalom paddler. Ford followed up with a World Championship silver in 2003. He was named Male Athlete of the Year at the 2003 Canadian Sport Awards, and was inducted into the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.
Ford has competed in five Summer Olympics, earning a fourth-place finish in the K-1 event in Athens in 2004.
He had a sixth-place finish in the same event in 2008 in Beijing. On April 25, 2009, Ford married Canadian alpine skier Kelly VanderBeek.
They have a son, Cooper.