Guy Périllat

Guy Périllat
Guy Périllat (left) in Grenoble 1968, with Jean-Claude Killy (center) and Jean-Daniel Dätwyler (right)
nation	France
birthday	24th February 1940 (age 80)
place of birth	La Clusaz , France
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1969
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 2 × 3 × 1 ×
winter Olympics bronze Squaw Valley 1960 Departure silver Grenoble 1968 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships gold Squaw Valley 1960 combination bronze Squaw Valley 1960 Departure silver Chamonix 1962 slalom gold Portillo 1966 Giant slalom silver Portillo 1966 slalom silver Grenoble 1968 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1967  Individual world cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 3rd ( 1967 )  Downhill World Cup 2. (1967)  Giant Slalom World Cup 6th ( 1968 )  Slalom World Cup 2. (1967)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 1 2  Giant slalom 0 0 2  slalom 2 0 0

Guy Périllat (born February 24, 1940 in La Clusaz , France ) is a retired French ski racer . He is a two-time world champion and a two-time Olympic medalist.

Périllat had its greatest success during the 1960s. During the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley , Périllat became world champion in the non-Olympic Alpine Combined . In the downhill he won an Olympic bronze medal.

He was able to build on these achievements two years later at the Alpine World Ski Championships when he was runner- up in the slalom behind his compatriot Charles Bozon . At the Alpine World Ski Championships in Portillo in 1966 , Périllat won his second world title in giant slalom and came second in slalom.

At the beginning of 1967, Périllat won two slaloms in the newly introduced World Cup - the first in Megève and the second in the 3-Tre races in Madonna di Campiglio , where he also won the giant slalom and combined competitions that were not part of the World Cup. Finally he won his second Olympic medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble with the silver medal in the downhill. At the national level, he won eight French championship titles from 1962 to 1967 . Périllat ended his active career after the 1968/69 season.

In 1961 he was voted France's Sportsman of the Year (“ Champion des champions ”) by the sports newspaper L'Équipe .

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
January 29, 1967	Megève	France	slalom
5th February 1967	Madonna di Campiglio	Italy	slalom

Web links

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