Frédéric Covili

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Frédéric Covili Alpine skiing
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 14th November 1975 (age 44)
place of birth Moûtiers , France
size 170 cm
Weight 74 kg
Career
discipline Giant slalom , slalom
society Douanes Les Menuires
status resigned
End of career January 21, 2009
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze St. Anton 2001 Giant slalom
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Lake Placid 1994 slalom
gold Lake Placid 1994 combination
bronze Lake Placid 1994 Super G
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut November 19, 1995
 Individual world cup victories 2
 Overall World Cup 12. ( 2001/02 )
 Super G World Cup 48th (2000/01)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 1. (2001/02)
 Slalom World Cup 38th ( 1995/96 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 2 5 1
 

Frédéric Covili (born November 14, 1975 in Moûtiers , Savoie ) is a former French ski racer . In the first years of the 21st century he was one of the world's best runners in the giant slalom discipline . He won two World Cup races, was winner of the Giant Slalom World Cup ranking in the 2001/02 season and third at the 2001 World Cup.

biography

Covili was in the international spotlight for the first time at the 1994 Junior World Championships in Lake Placid , when he finished first in slalom and in the combined rankings and third in the Super-G . He contested his first World Cup race on November 11, 1995; at the slalom in Beaver Creek he was ninth straight away.

But during the next five years Covili could not confirm these achievements. It was not until December 2000 that he returned to the top ten. At the 2001 World Ski Championships in St. Anton am Arlberg , he surprisingly won the bronze medal in the giant slalom, behind the Swiss Michael von Grünigen and the Norwegian Kjetil André Aamodt , which was the first ever giant slalom medal for French men at a major event since Gold medal from Jean-Claude Killy in Grenoble in 1968 and overall sixth in the giant slalom record at World Championships with a medal win (alongside Killy it was François Bonlieu with silver in 1954, bronze in 1958 and gold in 1964 - and Guy Périllat with gold in 1966, Georges Mauduit with silver in 1966 and James Couttet with bronze in 1950).

In the 2001/02 season Covili proved to be the best giant slalom runner in the world. He achieved two victories in World Cup races and was second three times. With these achievements he decided the Giant Slalom World Cup for himself, which again ended a long "dry spell", because since 1970/71 ( Patrick Russel ) none of the men of the "Grande Nation" had made it to this discipline for to decide. The French championship title followed at the end of the season . In 2003 he reached another three podium places and became French champion again. In 2002 he also took part in the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and finished 15th in the giant slalom.

In December 2003, Covili fell seriously in the giant slalom on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia , suffered a cruciate ligament tear in his left knee and had to take a break for the entire season. Less than a year later, just before the World Cup, the same mishap happened to him, this time in his right knee; again he was out for the rest of the season. After that, Covili could no longer build on his previous achievements and rarely achieved placements in the World Cup points. On January 21, 2009, he announced his retirement after he had missed his season goal, the qualification for the World Cup in Val-d'Isère . In his last race eleven days earlier in Alta Badia, he finished 34th.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

Frédéric Covili once won the giant slalom discipline.

season total Super G Giant slalom slalom
space Points space Points space Points space Points
1995/96 106. 29 - - - - 38. 29
1996/97 123. 9 - - 46. 9 - -
1997/98 138. 3 - - 54. 3 - -
1999/00 100. 30th - - 35. 30th - -
2000/01 41. 188 48. 9 11. 179 - -
2001/02 12. 471 - - 1. 471 - -
2002/03 30th 296 - - 4th 296 - -
2003/04 43. 190 - - 7th 190 - -
2004/05 74. 67 - - 23. 67 - -
2005/06 125. 13 - - 42. 13 - -
2006/07 130. 11 - - 40. 11 - -
2007/08 93. 44 - - 33. 44 - -

World Cup victories

Covili achieved 8 podiums, including 2 wins:

date place country discipline
October 28, 2001 Soelden Austria Giant slalom
December 16, 2001 Alta Badia Italy Giant slalom

European Cup

  • Season 1998/99 : 5th overall, fourth giant slalom standings
  • 2 podium places, including 1 victory

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

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