Cathy Féchoz (born May 23, 1969 ) is a former French freestyle skier . She specialized in the no longer performed discipline ballet (acro) . In this discipline, she won two World Cup medals and six individual competitions in the World Cup.
Cathy Féchoz took part in the international youth championships in Unterwasser in 1983 at the age of 13 and won the bronze medal in ballet. Four years later she won gold in the same competition. She made her debut in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup in December 1985 in Tignes . In her first two World Cup winters, she competed in two races on the mogul slope, but then concentrated on ballet.
After not taking part in any competition for two winters, she was able to regularly rank among the top ten from the 1989/90 season. In December 1990, she achieved her first World Cup victory in La Plagne . At her first World Championships in Lake Placid , she won the bronze medal behind the two Americans Ellen Breen and Jan Bucher . At the demonstration competition as part of the Olympic Games in Albertville , she showed a program for the title I Wanna Be Loved by You by Marilyn Monroe and won the silver medal just behind Swiss Conny Kissling . Thanks to a late victory in Zauchensee , she finished the 1991/92 season in third place in the discipline ranking. At the World Championships in the same location, she won bronze again. In the coming winters, Féchoz celebrated four more World Cup victories and reached third place in the final ballet classification twice, at her last World Championships in La Clusaz she did not get past twelfth place. She played her last World Cup in December 1995.
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