Henri Oreiller

Henri Oreiller 1948

Henri Oreiller (born December 5, 1925 in Paris , † October 7, 1962 in Montlhéry ) was a French ski racer and automobile racing driver .

Career

At the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Oreiller won the gold medal in downhill skiing and in the combination , which was also an Olympic value at the time, as well as the bronze medal in slalom . He was also a multiple French champion . After his career as a ski racer, Oreiller became a racing car driver. He was killed in a touring car race at the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry (south of Paris).

Together with Jean-Claude Killy is Oreiller namesake of the famous World Cup -Departure slopes Oreiller-Killy (OK piste) in Val d'Isere .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1962	Abarth Corse & Cie	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	Tommy Spychiger	failure	Engine failure

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
1962	Henri Oreiller Abarth	Ferrari 250 GT Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									10	DNF	5

Web links

Commons : Henri Oreiller  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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