Thomas Fanara

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Thomas Fanara Alpine skiing
Thomas Fanara in October 2008
Thomas Fanara in October 2008
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 24th April 1981 (age 39)
place of birth Annecy , France
size 170 cm
Weight 69 kg
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom
society Douanes Praz-sur-Arly
status resigned
End of career 16th March 2019
Medal table
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 team
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 11, 2005
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 27. ( 2014/15 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 4. ( 2013/14 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 1 4th 9
 

Thomas Fanara (born April 24, 1981 in Annecy ) is a former French ski racer . His specialty was the giant slalom . He won one race in the World Cup and made it onto the podium 13 more times. He was also world champion in the team competition in 2011 .

biography

Fanara started in FIS races for the first time in December 1998 , races in the European Cup followed from January 2001. There it took several years until he was able to ride at the top. In the 2005/06 season he achieved podium places for the first time and he finished seventh in the giant slalom classification.

After a few victories in FIS races, Fanara made his debut in the Ski World Cup in January 2005 . In his second race, the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora on February 26, 2005, he scored his first World Cup points in 23rd place. He achieved the best result of his career so far on January 7, 2006 in Adelboden , where he surprisingly finished fifth in the giant slalom. With this achievement he qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin . There he was eliminated in the first round. In the 2006/07 season Fanara was able to place in the top fifteen several times and also competed in a slalom race in the World Cup for the first time, but has not yet won any World Cup points in this discipline. At the 2007 World Cup in Åre , Sweden , he was the best Frenchman in 16th in the giant slalom.

Fanara started the 2007/08 season with two top 10 places in giant slalom. In Bad Kleinkirchheim on December 8th, 2007, he led after the first run, before he tore his cruciate ligament in a fall in the second run and was therefore out for the rest of the season. In the first race of the Alpine Ski World Cup in 2008/09 , Fanara again achieved fifth place in the giant slalom in Sölden . In total, he was in the top ten four times this winter.

On December 6, 2009 Fanara suffered another cruciate ligament rupture in the giant slalom at Beaver Creek . Again he was out for the rest of the winter. After his recent break from injury, he reached third place in the third World Cup giant slalom of the 2010/11 season on December 19, 2010 on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia and thus his first podium. Three weeks later, he also finished third in the giant slalom in Adelboden . In the Alpine World Skiing Championships 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he won the French team team event , the giant slalom, he finished sixth.

In the 2011/12 season , Fanara's best World Cup result was fifth place at the World Cup final in Schladming . In another three giant slalom he was among the top ten. In the winter of 2012/13 he was able to achieve a podium and four other top 10 placements. 2013/14 he was second twice, while at the Olympic Games in Sochi went to ninth place. In the 2014/15 World Cup winter , Fanara stayed close to the top of the world and achieved third place three times. At the World Championships in Beaver Creek he was eliminated, as he had two years earlier in Schladming. During the 2015/16 season , he first came second and third in the World Cup. At the end of the season, Fanara celebrated his first World Cup victory in the giant slalom in St. Moritz on March 19 , after narrowly beating his teammates Alexis Pinturault and Mathieu Faivre .

On December 4, 2016, he finished fourth (after finishing 6th at the start in Sölden ) on the traditional “OK” track in the first of the two Val d' Isère races, despite tearing a cruciate ligament in his right knee. Only two days later did he announce on Facebook that he could not continue the season. A year later, on December 3, 2017, he returned to the World Cup in the giant slalom in Beaver Creek and finished 28th, a few days later (December 9th) he was 10th on the OK slope in Val d'Isère.

With his third place in Adelboden on January 12, 2018, Fanara is the oldest podium competitor in a World Cup giant slalom. He screwed this record up with third place on February 24, 2019 in Bansko . He contested his last World Cup race on March 16, 2019 in Soldeu .

successes

Thomas Fanara in the giant slalom in Sölden 2008

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 14 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
19th March 2016 St. Moritz Switzerland Giant slalom

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom
space Points space Points
2004/05 136. 8th 54. 8th
2005/06 59. 121 18th 121
2006/07 78. 81 17th 81
2007/08 83. 62 25th 62
2008/09 48. 175 13. 175
2009/10 138. 8th 50. 8th
2010/11 37. 233 6th 233
2011/12 48. 202 12. 202
2012/13 29 236 5. 236
2013/14 29 278 4th 278
2014/15 27. 330 5. 330
2015/16 23. 374 6th 374
2016/17 73. 90 23. 90
2017/18 60. 102 18th 102
2018/19 30th 289 7th 289

European Cup

Nor-Am Cup

  • 1 win (slalom in Winter Park on November 28, 2007) and two more podium places

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Thomas Fanara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alpine skiing: season terminée pour Jean-Baptiste Grange, blessé au genou droit. www.nordeclair.fr, December 8, 2009, accessed October 28, 2012 (French).
  2. ^ Torn cruciate ligament - end of season for Thomas Fanara. skionline.ch, December 6, 2016, accessed on December 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hirscher König on the «Chuenisbärgli» - Swiss solid. Swiss Radio and Television , January 12, 2019, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Fanara, les adieux du petit géant. Le Dauphiné, March 15, 2019, accessed on March 16, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Fanara, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Annecy , France