Christophe Saioni

Christophe Saioni
nation	France
birthday	10th February 1969 (age 51)
place of birth	Nice , France
size	180 cm
Weight	84 kg
Career
discipline	Super-G , giant slalom
society	Inter Club
status	resigned
End of career	2004
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 27. ( 1995/96 )  Downhill World Cup 57th ( 2000/01 )  Super G World Cup 20. ( 1999/00 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 8. (1995/96)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 0 0 1

Christophe Saioni (born February 10, 1969 in Nice ) is a former French ski racer . He specialized in the giant slalom and Super-G disciplines.

biography

Saioni has been used in the World Cup since the beginning of the 1990s , but several years passed before he won the first World Cup points. He achieved this for the first time on December 18, 1994 with place 21 in the giant slalom of Val-d'Isère . In the winter of 1994/95 he also won two European Cup races, placing him 5th in the giant slalom ranking. In the 1995/96 World Cup season he was able to place himself in the top ten seven times. The only podium of his career he achieved on March 9, 1996 when he was third in Hafjell . In the following years Saioni could not build on these successes, only in November 1999 he achieved another top 10 placement. He contested his last World Cup race in February 2003. Until 2009 he still took part in individual FIS races and national championships.

For a short time, Saioni was married to the French ski racer Christel Pascal ; the couple divorced in 2002. Since 2007 he has worked as a trainer for the French Ski Association and looks after junior teams.

successes

Olympic games

• Nagano 1998 : 13th giant slalom
• Salt Lake City 2002 : 20th Super-G

World championships

• Vail / Beaver Creek 1999 : 13th giant slalom
• St. Anton 2001 : 12th Super-G, 18th descent

World cup

• 1995/96 season : 8th giant slalom ranking
• 8 placements among the top ten, including 1 podium

European Cup

• 1994/95 season : 5th giant slalom ranking, 10th overall ranking
• 6 podium places, including 2 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
January 9, 1995	Serre Chevalier	France	Giant slalom
January 28, 1995	Bischofswiesen	Germany	Giant slalom

More Achievements

• 4 French championship titles : Downhill 1999, Super-G 1991 and 1999, Giant Slalom 1996
• 20 victories in FIS races (only from season 1994/95)
• 2 wins in the South American Cup

Web links

• Christophe Saioni in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Christophe Saioni in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Christophe Saioni in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ski: Kostelic en beauté à Park City. dbnet.be, November 25, 2002, accessed December 19, 2013 (French). 
2. ↑ BEES2 option entraîneur de ski alpin. (No longer available online.) Fédération Française de Ski, May 29, 2007, archived from the original on December 19, 2013 ; Retrieved December 19, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.