Florence Steurer

Florence Steurer
nation	France
birthday	1st November 1949 (age 70)
place of birth	Lyon , France
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1972
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 2 × 2 ×
winter Olympics bronze Sapporo 1972 slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Portillo 1966 Giant slalom silver Val Gardena 1970 combination silver Sapporo 1972 combination bronze Sapporo 1972 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1967  Individual world cup victories 4th  Overall World Cup 2. ( 1968/69 )  Downhill World Cup 3. ( 1969/70 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 3rd ( 1968 )  Slalom World Cup 2. (1968, 1971/72 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 2 4th  Giant slalom 1 5 1  slalom 3 4th 7th

Florence Steurer (born November 1, 1949 in Lyon ) is a former French ski racer .

At World Championships she was able to achieve third place in the giant slalom in 1966 , in 1970 and 1972 she was second in the combination , which was not Olympic at the time. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo , she won the bronze medal in slalom .

Steurer competed in the Ski World Cup from 1967 to 1972 and won a giant slalom and three slaloms. In addition, she was eleven times second and twelve times third. In 1967 and 1969 she was French champion four times - twice in the downhill and once each in the slalom and in the combination.

On March 1, 1968, Steurer won the Abetone slalom with a lead of 3.00 seconds over Annie Famose , the largest lead in a World Cup slalom at all. This record lasted until November 28, 2015, when the American Mikaela Shiffrin won the Aspen slalom with a lead of 3.07 seconds over Veronika Velez-Zuzulová .

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
18th January 1968	Bad Gastein	Austria	slalom
March 10, 1968	Abetone	Italy	slalom
March 1, 1969	Squaw Valley	United States	Giant slalom
March 3, 1972	Heavenly Valley	United States	slalom

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shiffrin wins Aspen Slalom with a record advantage. derStandard.at , November 28, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2015 .