Carole Montillet-Carles

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Carole Montillet-Carles Alpine skiing
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 7th April 1973 (age 47)
place of birth Grenoble , France
size 164 cm
Weight 73 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , super-G
society Villard-de-Lans
status resigned
End of career 2006
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Salt Lake City 2002 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Bormio 2005 team
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut December 15, 1991
 Individual world cup victories 8th
 Overall World Cup 5th ( 2003/04 )
 Downhill World Cup 3rd (2003/04)
 Super G World Cup 1st ( 2002/03 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 16. ( 2001/02 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 4th 4th 5
 Super G 4th 4th 4th
 

Carole Montillet-Carles (born April 7, 1973 in Grenoble ) is a French politician and former ski racer . She specialized in the downhill and super-G disciplines. Her greatest successes are the downhill Olympic victory in 2002 and the victory in the Super G World Cup ranking of the 2002/03 season. After her retirement, she drove rally raid races. She has been a member of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council since 2015 .

biography

Skiing

Montillet grew up in Villard-de-Lans , where she learned to ski when she was five. She began racing three years later. In 1985 she became French Slalom Youth Champion, but at the age of 16 she began to concentrate on the speed disciplines. In 1990 he was accepted into the French World Cup team. Montillet first appeared internationally as a participant in the Junior World Championship in 1991. She made her World Cup debut on December 15, 1991 in Santa Caterina , where she also won her first World Cup point as 30th of the downhill. She was used as an ancestor in the ski races of the 1992 Winter Olympics .

Although she could only score twice in the first half of the 1992/93 season, Montillet received a starting place at the 1993 World Cup in Morioka - Shizukuishi . There she surprisingly finished eighth. Shortly before the end of the season, she achieved her first World Cup podium with third place in the downhill from Kvitfjell . The following season 1993/94 was not very successful with only one top 10 placement. In the internal qualification for the 1994 Olympic Downhill (also in Kvitfjell), she lost out to Florence Masnada . Due to her strong stature, Montillet usually only appeared positively on glider sections, while otherwise she had technical deficits that she had to work intensively to rectify. These efforts began to pay off in the 1995/96 season when she also made it into the top 10 several times in the Super-G.

On November 30, 1996, Montillet achieved second place on the Lake Louise Downhill , her best career result to date. In the further course of the 1996/97 season, two third places followed. At the 1997 World Cup in Sestriere , she just missed a medal in the Super-G when she finished fourth. For the next three years she was somewhat overshadowed by her teammate Régine Cavagnoud, who was friends with her, and was only able to place herself in the top 10 sporadically. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , she drove in the downhill and Super-G to 14th place, at the 1999 World Championships in Vail , she did not get beyond 15th place. The 1999/2000 season was also rather disappointing. Montillet worked harder on her technology again, which paid off with significantly better results in the winter of 2000/01. At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg , she again just missed a medal as fifth in the Super-G, which was hardly noticed in the French media because of Cavagnoud's world championship title. On February 16, 2001, she won a World Cup race for the first time, the downhill from Garmisch-Partenkirchen . There were also three more podium places during the winter.

When Cavagnoud had a serious training accident shortly after the start of the 2001/02 season, Montillet was one of the first at the scene of the accident to provide first aid. She seemed to be able to cope with the death of her friend two days later, especially since she came second in the downhill from Lake Louise. After that, however, she seemed mentally blocked and barely reached top positions in the World Cup. In some cases, however, these results could also be explained by increased giant slalom training. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , Montillet (instead of the late Cavagnoud) was the standard bearer during the opening ceremony. Quite surprisingly, given the season so far, she won the gold medal in the downhill, ahead of the Italian Isolde Kostner and the Austrian Renate Götschl . Montillet was also the first French Olympic champion in this discipline. The sports newspaper L'Équipe named her Champion des champions in the same year .

The 2002/03 World Cup season was extremely successful for Montillet. She won a downhill run in Lake Louise and a Super-G in Val-d'Isère and Cortina d'Ampezzo . There were also four more podium places. With 35 points ahead of Götschl, she secured the small crystal ball for winning the Super-G discipline. In the 2003/04 World Cup winter she won two runs in Lake Louise and one in Cortina d'Ampezzo as well as a Super-G in Haus im Ennstal . In the Super-G discipline classification she took second place behind Götschl, and in the downhill discipline classification she was third. Although she was on the podium three more times in the winter of 2004/05, she never managed to win again. In her seventh participation in world championships, in 2005 in St. Moritz, Montillet won a world championship medal, the bronze one in the team competition , which was held for the first time . In the 2005/06 season, Montillet only made it into the top 10 twice. During the training descent of the 2006 Winter Olympics , Montillet fell and suffered severe bruises. Despite great pain, she took part in the race and reached 28th place. Shortly afterwards, she announced her retirement at the end of the season. whereupon she was chosen as the flag bearer at the closing ceremony. Her last World Cup race was on March 16, 2006 in Åre .

rally

A few weeks after the 2002 Olympic victory, Montillet and her teammate Mélanie Suchet were invited to a rally raid race. In 2003 they took part in the Aïcha des Gazelles rally in the Moroccan desert for the first time. They immediately took second place in the quad category. They won the race for the second time in 2004, and in 2005 they repeated this success. In 2006 Montillet separated from Suchet and won the TransAfricaine Classic that year . At the 2007 Dakar Rally she had to give up during the 10th stage due to an electronic damage. In 2011 Montillet won the Aïcha des Gazelles rally. The second victory followed in 2012. In 2015 and 2016 there were two more wins.

politics

In mid-September 2015, Montillet announced her entry into politics, as a candidate for the liberal-conservative Républicains in the elections for the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional council . She was elected on December 13, 2015 in the Isère constituency on the joint list of Républicains, UDI and MoDem cited by Laurent Wauquiez . In the regional council she is a member of the sports commission; In this function, she has been a member of the board of directors of the semi-state tourism group Compagnie des Alpes since March 2017 .

Private

Carole Montillet has been married to the fitness trainer Olivier Carles since 2004, whom she met in 1999 on the television program Jeux sans frontières . In September 2008 she became the mother of a daughter.

Successes in alpine skiing

Olympic games

Montillets gold medal, helmet and bib number at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1991/92 105. 15th 49. 9 53. 6th - -
1992/93 59. 92 27. 92 - - - -
1993/94 59. 108 22nd 84 38. 24 - -
1994/95 67. 70 28. 67 50. 3 - -
1995/96 31. 267 13. 164 17th 103 - -
1996/97 15th 399 8th. 240 10. 159 - -
1997/98 26th 276 11. 139 16. 102 - -
1998/99 26th 319 11. 212 19th 107 - -
1999/00 55. 150 25th 102 31. 48 - -
2000/01 9. 702 4th 297 3. 405 - -
2001/02 16. 443 13. 180 9. 129 16. 134
2002/03 6th 869 4th 313 1. 493 28. 63
2003/04 5. 957 3. 492 2. 402 25th 63
2004/05 18th 410 7th 284 16. 126 - -
2005/06 37. 191 20th 88 22nd 103 - -

World Cup victories

Montillet achieved a total of 25 podium places in the World Cup, including 8 victories:

date place country discipline
February 16, 2001 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany Super G
December 7, 2002 Lake Louise Canada Departure
December 13, 2002 Val d'Isère France Super G
January 15, 2003 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Super G
December 5, 2003 Lake Louise Canada Departure
December 6, 2003 Lake Louise Canada Departure
January 18, 2004 Cortina d'Ampezzo Italy Departure
February 1, 2004 House in the Ennstal Austria Super G

Junior World Championships

  • Geilo / Hemsedal 1991 : 17th downhill, 19th Super-G, 28th giant slalom
  • Maribor 1992 : 11th downhill, 11th Super-G, 22nd combination, 31st slalom, 46th giant slalom

European Cup

More Achievements

Successes in motorsport

Aïcha des Gazelles rally

  • Quad category: Winner 2004 and 2005, second place 2003
  • Category 4 × 4: Winner 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, second place in 2006 and 2007

Other races:

  • TransAfricaine Classique: Winner 2006
  • Trophée Andros : second place 2007 (electric car category)
  • Outback Challenge: third place 2007 (Extreme Raid category)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Qui suis-je? Carole Montillet website, accessed June 6, 2017 (French).
  2. a b c Munzinger Archive , International Sports Archive , Edition 36/2002.
  3. Alexis Blanc, Claire Raynaud: La mort de Cavagnoud ne doit rien à la fatalité. Le Parisien , November 8, 2001, accessed June 6, 2017 (French).
  4. Alexis Blanc, Claire Raynaud: La mort de Cavagnoud ne doit rien à la fatalité. Le Parisien , November 8, 2001, accessed June 6, 2017 (French).
  5. Le Rallye Raid… Une Nouvelle Passion. Carole Montillet website, accessed June 6, 2017 (French).
  6. ^ Palmarès Rally. Carole Montillet website, accessed June 6, 2017 (French).
  7. ^ Carole Montillet, Pure des Gazelles. L'Équipe , accessed June 6, 2017 (French).
  8. Régionales: La skieuse Carole Montillet avec Laurent Wauquiez en Rhône-Alpes. 20minutes.fr, accessed September 16, 2015 (French).
  9. ^ Carole Montillet devient administrateur de la Compagnie des Alpes. 20minutes.fr, accessed September 16, 2015 (French).
  10. ^ Carole Montillet. gala.fr, 2017, accessed June 6, 2017 .
  11. Carole Montillet est maman! Le Dauphiné libéré, March 9, 2017, accessed June 6, 2017 (French).