Émile Allais

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Émile Allais (born February 25, 1912 in Megève , † October 17, 2012 in Sallanches ) was a French ski racer .

Life

Allais was born in February 1912 in Megève in eastern France, near the Swiss and Italian borders, as the son of a baker. His father fell in World War I. His mother later remarried and the family bought a hotel in a ski resort. In 1924, Allais left school to work in the hotel.

In 1929 he took part in a ski run for the first time at La Coupe Montefiore . From 1932 he completed his military service with the 27th Battalion des Chasseurs Alpins in Annecy , where he served as a ski soldier.

At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he won the bronze medal in the Alpine Combined. In 1937, at the World Ski Championships in Chamonix, he became world champion in slalom, downhill and in what was then the most important alpine discipline, the alpine combination. He was able to repeat his success in alpine combination at the 1938 World Championships in Engelberg .

During the Second World War, Allais was initially deployed in the Bataillon du Haute Montagne and after the French surrender went into the Resistance , where he was deployed as a partisan fighter in the Bataillon du Mont Blanc .

After the war, Allais worked at the ski resorts in Squaw Valley , California, and Portillo , Chile, among others . In 1954 he returned to France, where he worked as technical director in the Courchevel ski area until 1964 . This was followed by activities as a technical consultant in various other ski areas, including La Plagne and Flaine .

Allais also founded the Ecole de Ski Français ski school . In 2005 he was recognized by the French Senate for his services to skiing.

Émile Allais died on October 17, 2012 after a short illness at the age of 100 in a hospital in Sallanches in the French Alps.

statistics

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Garmisch-Part. 1936 Alpine combination 3.  

World Championships: one slalom gold medal in 1937 and one combination gold medal each in 1937 and 1938; 1 silver medal each downhill and combination 1935 and downhill and slalom 1938

Arlberg-Kandahar: Downhill winner St. Anton am Arlberg 1936; Combination winner Mürren 1937

literature

  • Émile Allais & Paul Gignoux: Ski français. B. Arthaud éditeur, Grenoble, 1937
  • Gilles Chappaz: Allais, la légende d'Émile. Éditions Guerin, Chamonix, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. French ski legend dies
  2. a b c d e Bob Soden, Doug Pfeiffer and Morten Lund: Emile Allais: Pioneer of Parallel in Skiing Heritage Journal September 2003