World Professional Standings
2012 - 35th
2011 - 21st
2010 - 19th
2009 - 15th
2008 - 26th
2007 - 16th
2006 - 26th
2005 - 21st
2004 - 31st
2003 - 27th
Major Awards And Victories
- 1979: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER
- 1981: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER
- 1982: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER
- 1983: WORLD CHAMPION OUTRIDER
- 1985: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
- 1986: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
- 1988: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
- 1990: Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby Champion Outrider, Calgary Stampede Aggregate Champion Outrider
- 1993: Orville Strandquist Award (Calgary Stampede Top Rookie Driver)
- 1994: Ponoka Stampede Champion Outrider
- 1996: Moses Lake Round-Up, Ben Franklin County Fair, WPCA Most Improved Chuckwagon Outfit
- 1997: Ponoka Stampede Champion Driver
- 1998: Mullen Transportation Safe Drive Award
- 2000: Strathmore Heritage Days Champion, WPCA Showmanship Award
- 2012: Calgary Stampede Equine Outfit of Excellence - "RIVER" - Champion Left Leader
Personal Information
A champion chuckwagon driver and outrider, Mike has four major wins as a chuckwagon driver with the most prominent victory of his career coming at the Ponoka Stampede in 1998. He is a four–time World Champion Outrider, received the WPCA's Most Improved Chuckwagon Outfit in 1996, and the WPCA Showmanship Award in 2000.He qualified for the Calgary Stampede GMC Rangeland Derby winner–take–all n championship final heat and won the Calgary Stampede's Mullen Group Safe Drive Award for the Least Penalized Driver in 1998. He won the Calgary Stampede's Orville Strandquist Award for the Top Rookie Driver in 1993 and outrode for five Calgary Stampede GMC Rangeland Derby Championship outfits and four Calgary Stampede Aggregate winners. 2012 saw Mike's horse “RIVER" was named to the Calgary Stampede’s inaugural Equine Outfit of Excellence in 2012. He posted 9 top ten runs including a day money run at the Calgary Stampede and 4 runs that cracked the top five. Mike set a track record in 2011 at the Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship and holds the track record at the Rocky Mountain Turf Club Derby in Lethbridge as well. Mike is the son of three–time GMC Rangeland Derby Champion the late Ralph Vigen who is considered by many to be the greatest chuckwagon driver of all time. Mike is the father of fellow driver Chanse Vigen and uncle to Rae Croteau Jr. A truck driver in the off-season, Mike has two children - Brandy and Chanse.
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