Estelle Balet

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Estelle Balet Snowboard
Estelle Balet at the Freeride World Tour 2014 in Chamonix
nation SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
birthday December 19, 1994
place of birth Vercorin ,  SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
date of death April 19, 2016
Place of death near Orsières ,  SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Career
discipline Freeride
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
WMTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
silver 2014 singles
gold 2015 singles
gold 2016 singles
last change: April 21, 2016

Estelle Balet (born December 19, 1994 in Vercorin ; † April 19, 2016 near Orsières ) was a Swiss freeride athlete who was twice world champion.

Career

Estelle Balet learned to snowboard at the age of ten . Later she specialized in freeriding in the forest and in deep powder snow as well as on steep walls.

With a second place at the Xtreme Verbier 2013, she qualified for the Freeride World Tour (FWT) the following year and became vice world champion in March 2014 after the last of the six races of the season. In 2015, Balet was the youngest participant to win the world championship in snowboard freeride. In December she was named Sportswoman of the Year 2015 in the canton of Valais . She defended her title in April 2016.

On the morning of April 19, 2016, Estelle Balet died at the age of 21 in an avalanche on Le Portalet ( Mont Blanc group ) while filming a film . On Tuesday morning she flew to the summit in a helicopter with the Swiss extreme athlete Géraldine Fasnacht and a mountain guide. Carnival was the first to drive on the slope, then Estelle Balet started in a neighboring couloir . There she was hit by an avalanche that carried her about a thousand meters.

Web links

Commons : Estelle Balet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Dreis: Freerider Estelle Balet. Snowboard world champion dies in an avalanche. In: FAZ.net . April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Sammy Luebke and Estelle Balet are the 2016 Freeride World Champions! The freeride world champions of the season 15/16 have been determined! In: Prime Snowboarding. April 4, 2016, Retrieved April 25, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Estelle Balet. Freeride world champion from Switzerland killed by avalanche. In: Focus . April 19, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Five questions about the death of Estelle Balet. In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 20, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Balet, Estelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss freeride athlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Vercorin
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2016
Place of death Orsières