David Poisson

David Poisson
nation	France
birthday	March 31, 1982
place of birth	Annecy , France
size	172 cm
Weight	88 kg
date of death	November 13, 2017
Place of death	Nakiska , Canada
Career
discipline	Downhill , super-G
society	Ski Club Peisey-Vallandry
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Schladming 2013 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut February 14, 2004  Overall World Cup 50th ( 2012/13 )  Downhill World Cup 15th (2012/13)  Super G World Cup 32nd (2012/13)  Combination World Cup 51st ( 2006/07 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 0 1

David Poisson (born March 31, 1982 in Annecy , † November 13, 2017 in Nakiska , Alberta , Canada ) was a French ski racer . He mainly started in the Downhill and Super-G disciplines . His greatest success was winning the bronze medal in the downhill at the 2013 World Championships in Schladming .

biography

Poisson drove FIS races from December 1997, he had his first start in the European Cup in January 2001. He was able to achieve two podium places in the European Cup and was third in the downhill classification in the 2006/07 season . In the World Cup , Poisson made his debut on February 14, 2004, on the downhill from St. Anton am Arlberg , where he won his first World Cup points as 29th. He attracted attention at the 2005 World Cup in Bormio , when he came ninth as the best Frenchman in both the downhill and Super-G. In the World Cup, a 25th place was his best result.

It was not until February 29, 2008, when Poisson achieved a top 10 result in the World Cup, when he finished tenth in the downhill from Kvitfjell . At his second World Cup in Val-d'Isère in 2009 , he only reached 34th place in the Super-G, he could not finish the downhill. Further top 10 results in World Cup descents followed on January 24, 2009 in Kitzbühel and on December 5, 2009 in Beaver Creek . At the World Cup descent from Bormio on December 29, 2009, he reached fourth place. After that, he did not achieve any top positions in the World Cup for a long time and only rarely drove under the fastest 20. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , he nevertheless reached seventh place in the downhill.

On March 3, 2012 Poisson finished sixth in the downhill from Kvitfjell for the first time in over two years in a World Cup race among the top ten. On January 26, 2013, on the Streif in Kitzbühel, he equalized his best World Cup result as fourth on the Hahnenkamm downhill run. Two weeks later he surprisingly won the bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships . His only podium finish in a World Cup race was achieved by Poisson on December 29, 2015, when he finished third on the descent from Santa Caterina Valfurva .

Because of his powerful driving style, Poisson was nicknamed Caillou ("pebble").

David Poisson had an accident on November 13, 2017 during a downhill training run in the Canadian ski resort Nakiska . He lost a ski shortly before the finish line, causing him to fall, break two safety nets and hit a tree head-on. All attempts by the rescue workers to resuscitate him on site failed. After the accident, the poor route safety measures were criticized as these were less robust B-nets, some of which were only a few meters away from the edge of the forest.

Poisson had a son.

successes

Olympic games

• Vancouver 2010 : 7th departure
• Sochi 2014 : 16th downhill, 17th super-G

World championships

• Bormio 2005 : 9th Super-G, 9th descent
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 34th Super-G
• Schladming 2013 : 3rd descent
• Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 : 14th departure

World cup

• 11 placements among the top ten, including 1 podium

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2003/04	140	2	54.	2	-	-	-	-
2004/05	98	35	41.	22nd	38.	13	-	-
2005/06	No results due to injury
2006/07	143.	3	56.	2	-	-	51.	1
2007/08	72.	96	24.	85	38.	11	-	-
2008/09	74.	81	24.	81	-	-	-	-
2009/10	66.	100	20th	100	-	-	-	-
2010/11	147.	10	51.	10	-	-	-	-
2011/12	75.	85	27.	85	-	-	-	-
2012/13	50.	143	15th	128	32.	21st	-	-
2013/14	82.	56	31.	53	51.	3	-	-
2014/15	76.	78	26th	78	-	-	-	-
2015/16	56.	173	19th	173	-	-	-	-
2016/17	107.	30th	38.	22nd	47.	8th	-	-

European Cup

• 2006/07 season : 3rd downhill classification
• 2 podium places

Junior World Championships

• Verbier 2001 : 10th Super-G, 11th Downhill
• Tarvisio 2002 : 7th Super-G, 15th combination, 16th downhill, 36th slalom

More Achievements

• French Super-G Champion 2005 and 2008
• French junior downhill champion in 2002
• 2 wins in the South American Cup
• 3 victories in FIS races

Web links

Commons : David Poisson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• David Poisson in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• David Poisson in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• David Poisson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le grand jour for David Poisson. skiinfo.fr, February 9, 2013, accessed March 8, 2015 (French). 
2. ↑ Professional ski Poisson dies in a fall. ZDF , November 13, 2017, accessed on November 13, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Poisson death: crashed against a tree , APA report on derstandard.at of November 14, 2017, accessed on November 14, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} New findings on Poissons death , on sport1.de, from November 14, 2017. Accessed on November 15, 2017.