Georgette Thiollière

Georgette Thiollière-Miller (born May 7, 1920 in Chamonix , Haute-Savoie ) is a former French ski racer .

Thiollière made her ski debut in 1941 at the age of 20. Four years later she was the first woman in France to receive a diploma as a ski instructor.

She achieved her first success with victories at the Grand Prix of Megève in 1942, 1943 and 1946. In 1942 and 1946 she won the French downhill championship, and in 1946 also that in the combination. Together with her sister Suzanne , she was considered unbeatable on the local slopes. Internationally, she achieved several successes with her victories in downhill, slalom and combination at the Harriman Cup in 1947 and in downhill and giant slalom of the SDS races in 1948. Until she resigned, she often lost out to the German Christl Cranz . Her great emotionality also often made her make tactical mistakes on important occasions. So she ended up in the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in the downhill and in the combination, beaten in the lower midfield and was only able to prove her class with fourth place in the slalom.

She won her only international medal with third place in the downhill at the 1950 Alpine World Ski Championships in Aspen .

statistics

	discipline	space
St. Moritz 1948	Departure	31.
	slalom	4th
	combination	20th

source

• Biographies des plus grands champions français , 1949–51

Web links

• Georgette Thiollière in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )