Annie Famose

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Annie Famose Alpine skiing
Annie Famose
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 16th June 1944 (age 76)
place of birth Jurançon , France
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
End of career 1972
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 3 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Grenoble 1968 Giant slalom
bronze Grenoble 1968 slalom
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Portillo 1966 slalom
silver Portillo 1966 Departure
silver Portillo 1966 combination
silver Grenoble 1968 Giant slalom
bronze Grenoble 1968 slalom
bronze Grenoble 1968 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut 1967
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 3rd ( 1967 )
 Downhill World Cup 2. ( 1969/70 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 3rd (1967)
 Slalom World Cup 1. (1967)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 0 5 4th
 Giant slalom 0 1 3
 slalom 2 5 2
 

Annie Famose (born June 16, 1944 in Jurançon , Département Pyrénées-Atlantiques ) is a former French ski racer .

biography

She celebrated her greatest success at the 1966 World Ski Championships in Portillo when she became world champion in slalom . In addition, she won two silver medals (behind Marielle Goitschel ), in the downhill and in the combined . The silver medal in the downhill was handed in later, however, because at first she appeared on the bronze rank and only moved up in the ranking through the decisions of the FIS , when it turned out that Erika Schinegger is a man.

At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble , she was second in the giant slalom behind Nancy Greene . They are 2.64 seconds behind, the largest ever recorded in an Olympic or world championship race. In the slalom she won the bronze medal behind Marielle Goitschel and Nancy Greene. In the downhill she came in fifth. Four years later at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , she finished eighth in the downhill on February 5. A few days later, on February 9, it was temporarily banned by the FIS because it had made comments for Radio Television Luxembourg that were commercially exploited.

She was also successful in the Ski World Cup . In the 1967 season she won the Slalom World Cup, but had to share this success with Marielle Goitschel, who was tied on points. She won two World Cup races - on January 10, 1967 the slalom of the SDS races in Grindelwald and on January 26, 1967 the slalom of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains . She also came second eleven times and third nine times. At the French Championships, she won six titles from 1962 to 1965 . She also won the giant slalom in Val-d'Isère on December 17, 1966; thanks to second place in the slalom on December 15th, she also won the combination. In addition, she was the winner of the combination in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains on January 25, 1969 and that of Grindelwald on January 9, 1970 (both were not part of the World Cup).

On January 30, 1969, she suffered a broken fibula and a rupture of the Achilles tendon in her left leg during “non-stop training” for the Arlberg-Kandahar race in St. Anton am Arlberg . At that time she was leading the World Cup ranking with 101 points, ahead of Gertrud Gabl (90 points).

After the 1972 season Famose ended her sporting career. Today she is a successful businesswoman and owns several sports shops and restaurants, as well as a children's holiday village in the Avoriaz ski station in the Haute-Savoie department . In 1968 she was honored as "Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur" and in 2010 as "Officier de la Légion d'honneur".

successes

Olympic Games (also World Cup)

World championships

  • Portillo 1966 : 1st slalom, 2nd descent, 2nd combination, 5th giant slalom

World Cup ratings

Annie Famose won the slalom discipline once.

season total Departure Giant slalom slalom
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1967 3. 158 5. 38 3. 50 1. 70
1968 6th 123 5. 48 7th 32 8th. 43
1968/69 6th 101 4th 35 15th 15th 4th 51
1969/70 10. 81 2. 48 - - 12. 33
1970/71 15th 45 7th 29 19th 6th 19th 10
1971/72 31. 8th 21st 2 - - 18th 6th

World Cup victories

Famose achieved a total of 24 podium places, including 2 wins:

date place country discipline
January 10, 1967 Grindelwald Switzerland slalom
January 26, 1967 Saint-Gervais-les-Bains France slalom

Other important successes

  • Pre-Olympic competitions in February 1971 in Sapporo : Victory in the downhill on the 8th, in the giant slalom on the 11th and 2nd place in the slalom on the 13th.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F sharp banned Annie Famose. Arbeiter-Zeitung , February 10, 1972, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Annie Famose still at the helm. Arbeiter-Zeitung , October 18, 1966, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b St. Gervais in numbers. Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 26, 1969, accessed on March 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ French triumph in Grindelwald. Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 10, 1970, accessed on March 17, 2015 .
  5. ↑ The fall ends Annie famous career. Arbeiter-Zeitung , January 31, 1969, accessed March 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Japan disregards F sharp instruction . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 9, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ↑ Annie Famose can't be beat . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 12, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ Rosi Mittermaier won the fall slalom . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 14, 1971, p. 15 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Great, Annie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Jurançon , Pyrénées-Atlantiques department