Franck Piccard

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Franck Piccard Alpine skiing
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 17th September 1964 (age 55)
place of birth Les Saisies , France
size 182 cm
Weight 70 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , Super-G ,
giant slalom , combination
society SC Saisies
status resigned
End of career 2000
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Junior World Championship 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Calgary 1988 Departure
gold Calgary 1988 Super G
silver Albertville 1992 Departure
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Saalbach 1991 Super G
FIS Alpine Ski Junior World Championships
gold Auron 1982 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual world cup victories 4th
 Overall World Cup 7. ( 1987/88 )
 Downhill World Cup 10. (1987/88)
 Super G World Cup 3. (1987/88, 1988/89 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 3rd ( 1993/94 )
 Combination World Cup 3. (1987/88)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Departure 1 0 1
 Super G 2 3 1
 Giant slalom 1 0 1
 combination 0 0 1
 

Franck Piccard (born September 17, 1964 in Les Saisies ) is a former French ski racer . His younger siblings John , Ian , Leila , Jeff and Ted were also ski racers.

biography

Piccard celebrated his first major success at the first ever World Junior Championship in 1982 , where he won the gold medal in downhill skiing. In the World Cup , he drove into the points for the first time on December 10, 1983 with fourth place in the Super-G of Val-d'Isère . His first downhill "top ten" was 8th on January 26, 1985 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , on On December 15, 1985 in Alta Badia he wrote for the first time with rank 12 in a giant slalom. It was not until January 1988 that he showed constant performance in the speed disciplines again, with 4th place in the downhill in Val d'Isère (with start number 39) on January 9 and 2nd in the Super-G the next day initiated good series. Also in the "Hahnenkamm-Ersatzabfahrt" (January 16) driven in Bad Kleinkirchheim he was again with the high starting number. 39 Third.
His (due) first World Cup victory came on March 23, 1988 in the Super-G at Beaver Creek . At the beginning of his career he mostly competed in downhill and super-G races as well as in combinations, but later also increasingly in giant slalom. Overall, he celebrated four wins in the Ski World Cup and reached eleven podium places. Piccard drove his last World Cup race on February 10, 1996, but then competed in French championships and FIS races in France until 2000 . However, he started on February 23, 1996 in the giant slalom at the World Championships in Sierra Nevada , where he finished 15th with a gap of 5.95 seconds.

At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , Piccard won the first ever Super-G competition and thus the gold medal (the first men's Alpine gold medal for France since Jean-Claude Killy in 1968). Almost a week earlier, he had won bronze in the downhill. Four years later he managed to win the silver medal in the downhill again at the Winter Olympics in Albertville in his home country . At world championships Piccard took part five times, his best result is third place in the Super-G of Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 . From 1985 to 1993 he was French champion three times .

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup victories

date place country discipline
March 13, 1988 Beaver Creek United States Super G
January 11, 1990 Schladming Austria Departure
2nd December 1990 Valloire France Super G
October 30, 1993 Soelden Austria Giant slalom

Junior World Championships

French championships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ «Piccard ousted Stock» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 18, 1988, p. 20 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized version).