Éric Laboureix

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Éric Laboureix Freestyle skiing
Éric Laboureix
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 12th April 1962 (age 58)
place of birth Lyon , France
job Entrepreneur
Career
discipline Moguls, aerials, ballet,
combination
society CS La Plagne
status resigned
End of career January 1992
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
bronze Tignes 1986 combination
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup March 1, 1980
 World Cup victories 34
 Overall World Cup 1. (1985/86, 1986/87,
1987/88, 1989/90, 1990/91)
 Aerials World Cup 8. (1985/86)
 Mughal World Cup 8. (1989/90)
 Ballet World Cup 3. (1984/85)
 Combination World Cup 1. (1986/87, 1986/87,
1989/90, 1990/91)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Aerials 0 1 0
 Moguls 1 0 2
 ballet 1 1 2
 combination 32 12 12
 

Éric Laboureix (born April 12, 1962 in Lyon ) is a former French freestyle skier . He started in all disciplines and was one of the most successful athletes in World Cup history, especially in combination. He won the overall Freestyle World Cup five times and the combined discipline ranking four times, as well as 34 individual World Cup competitions. At world championships he won a bronze medal.

biography

Athletic career

Laboureix in free skiing

Éric Laboureix was junior world champion in combination in 1980 and made his debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup at the age of 17 in March of the same year on the mogul slope in Oberjoch . In the same winter he made his debut in the other two disciplines aerials (jumping) and ballet as well as in the combination. He achieved his first place in the points ranking eighth on the mogul slope in Tignes . In the following season he did not contest any World Cup competitions.

After his results had remained inconspicuous in the 1981/82 season, Laboureix succeeded in January 1983 in the combination of Tignes his first World Cup victory. With several top 10 results in all disciplines, he was able to complete all ratings among the top ten for the first and only time in his career in 1982/83. He finished second in the combined ranking and third in the overall World Cup. In March 1985 he celebrated his only two victories in individual disciplines in Oberjoch. After winning the ballet, one day later he was also victorious on the mogul slope and achieved three World Cup victories within three days by winning the combined ranking. With third place in the Ballet World Cup, he reached his all-time high.

In December 1985, Laboureix won the dress rehearsal for the first world championships in Tignes the following February. In the combined competition there he had to admit defeat after the ranks six (aerials), 24 (ballet) and 27 (moguls) and won the bronze medal with a clear gap to winner Alain Laroche . This remained his only precious metal at a major event. In the overall World Cup he was able to prevail against the competition for the first time and also won the discipline classification in the combination. The all-rounder also secured the overall World Cup in the following two winters. In the Olympic Games of Calgary , where freestyle skiing made its first as a demonstration sport, he presented himself strong and took the ranks seven, eight and nine in the ballet, moguls and aerials. Unfortunately for him, the combination that he would otherwise have clearly won was not counted.

In the 1988/89 season Laboureix achieved his only podium finish in Aerials with second place in Tignes , he missed the World Championships in Oberjoch as well as the second half of the season, which meant he fell back to fourth place in the overall World Cup. He dominated the next two winters again with a total of 13 World Cup victories and secured victory in the overall standings for the fifth time in 1990/91, a record that was only exceeded 26 years later by Mikaël Kingsbury . At his last World Championships in Lake Placid , he did not get beyond the ranks twelve and 48 in the ballet and moguls and thus had no chance in the combination. He played his last two of a total of 311 World Cups in Blackcomb in January 1992 .

Further career

After the end of his career, Éric Laboureix remained loyal to winter sports. First, he commented only a month after his resignation for antenna 2 the Olympic Games of Albertville . Two years later he was on the occasion of the Games of Lillehammer in the same function for Euro Sport operates. In 1992 he founded the company ELRPO ( Éric Laboureix Production ) in his hometown of La Plagne , with which he is active both in retail and in the tourism sector and as a service provider for the French ski association. The offer initially included snowmobile tours and was later expanded to include a ski school , mountain sports seminars and the establishment of several sports shops. In 2006 ELRPO set up an online ski rental as a joint venture with other French companies, including the sporting goods manufacturer Decathlon , which in 2013 had more than 250 branches inside and outside the Alps. In 2016, Decathlon sold its shares and Laboureix became chairman of the board of directors and one of the three main shareholders of Skimium.

The motorsport fan Laboureix was a finalist in 1988 in the Volant Elf sponsored by the oil company Elf Aquitaine , a car race for young drivers on the Paul Ricard Circuit .

successes

Olympic games

  • Calgary 1988 : 7th Ballet, 8th Moguls, 9th Aerials (demonstration competitions)

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Aerials Moguls ballet combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
1980 53. 31 36. 6th 31. 17th - - 18th 8th
1981/82 39. 89 36. 16 38. 22nd 29 30th 18th 21st
1982/83 3. 64 9. 62 9. 67 10. 87 2. 42
1983/84 3. 60 21st 56 10. 101 6th 121 3. 80
1984/85 2. 64 12. 77 12. 115 3. 154 3. 79
1985/86 1. 60 8th. 111 26th 26th 6th 102 1. 58
1986/87 1. 64 9. 115 15th 89 12. 103 1. 89
1987/88 1. 56 14th 99 22nd 73 10. 125 3. 98
1988/89 4th 42 18th 76 21st 58 20th 77 5. 60
1989/90 1. 58 25th 37 8th. 114 10. 107 1. 90
1990/91 1. 49 19th 76 15th 108 14th 116 1. 117
1991/92 24. 18th 43. 7th 41. 22nd 21st 69 5. 43

World Cup victories

Laboureix achieved 64 podiums in the World Cup, including 34 victories:

date place country discipline
January 21, 1983 Tignes France combination
March 8, 1984 Campitello Matese Italy combination
3rd February 1985 Pra-Loup France combination
March 1, 1985 Oberjoch Germany ballet
March 2, 1985 Oberjoch Germany Moguls
March 3, 1985 Oberjoch Germany combination
December 13, 1985 Tignes France combination
March 2, 1986 Oberjoch Germany combination
December 12, 1986 Tignes France combination
January 22, 1987 Lake Placid United States combination
January 24, 1987 Breckenridge United States combination
March 8, 1987 Oberjoch Germany combination
March 27, 1987 La Clusaz France combination
December 13, 1987 Tignes France combination
December 20, 1987 La Plagne France combination
March 12, 1988 La Clusaz France combination
December 11, 1988 Tignes France combination
December 18, 1988 La Plagne France combination
January 8, 1989 Mont Gabriel Canada combination
January 15, 1989 Lake Placid United States combination
December 16, 1989 Tignes France combination
December 17, 1989 La Plagne France combination
January 14, 1990 Lake Placid United States combination
January 21, 1990 Breckenridge United States combination
January 28, 1990 Calgary Canada combination
February 18, 1990 Iizuna kogen Japan combination
January 13, 1991 Blackcomb Canada combination
January 20, 1991 Breckenridge United States combination
February 21, 1991 La Clusaz France combination
February 26, 1991 Scole Soviet Union combination
March 10, 1991 Voss Norway combination
March 17, 1991 Pyhätunturi Finland combination
March 23, 1991 Hundfjället Sweden combination
December 7, 1991 Tignes France combination

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Éric Laboureix  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Les champions présents! In: La Part-Dieu des neiges - Dossier de presse. Press kit of the La Part-Dieu shopping center in Lyon , October 2014, p. 8 (French).
  2. ↑ Laurent Gannaz: Decathlon cède Skimium. Le Dauphiné libéré, October 18, 2016, accessed April 5, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ Nos Champions. CS La Plagne, accessed April 5, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Laboureix, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon