Jean-Baptiste Grange

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Jean-Baptiste Grange Alpine skiing
Jean-Baptiste Grange in January 2008
Jean-Baptiste Grange in January 2008
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 10th October 1984 (age 35)
place of birth Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne , France
size 181 cm
Weight 81 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom , combination
society SC Valloire
status active
Medal table
World championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Indoor European Championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze Are 2007 slalom
gold Garmisch-Partenk. 2011 slalom
gold Vail / Beaver Creek 2015 slalom
European Ski Federation European Alpine Indoor Ski Championships
gold Amnéville 2009 Knockout slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 11, 2004
 Individual world cup victories 9
 Overall World Cup 5th ( 2008/09 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 11. (2008/09)
 Slalom World Cup 1. (2008/09)
 Combination World Cup 4th ( 2007/08 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 slalom 8th 3 4th
 combination 1 2 0
 team 0 1 1
last change: March 15, 2020
Grange in February 2011 with the World Cup gold medal

Jean-Baptiste Grange (born October 10, 1984 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne ) is a French ski racer . He is particularly successful in slalom and is one of the best athletes today in this discipline. His greatest successes to date include the slalom world championship title in 2011 and 2015 , the indoor European championship title in 2009 and winning the slalom discipline championship in the 2008/09 season . Grange occasionally competes in the giant slalom and combination disciplines .

biography

Grange grew up in Valloire and learned to ski there at the age of two. Both his mother Annick Levrel and his father Jean-Pierre Grange belonged to the French national ski team in the mid-1970s. His brother François-Cyrille Grange , who was almost a year and a half older, was also a skier and, as a child, was the final runner in 1992 with Michel Platini at the Olympic torch relay at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville . The youngest child of the Grange family, Alexia, born in 1988, has also been active in skiing since she was a child. Grange went through the French youth squad and reached a second and a fourth place at the Trofeo Topolino . He competed in the first FIS races in December 1999, and played in the European Cup from December 2001. The best result at the Junior World Championships in 2003 was eleventh place in the combined ranking.

Grange made his debut in the World Cup on January 11, 2004 in the slalom of Chamonix , where he was eliminated in the first run. Ten days later he became French slalom junior champion in Valloire. On December 20, 2004 he drove in the European Cup slalom of Špindlerův Mlýn in third place and thus achieved his first (and so far only) podium finish at this level. In the further course of the 2004/05 season, however, he did not get beyond a 13th place.

Grange scored his first World Cup points on December 11, 2005 in the super combination of Val-d'Isère , where he advanced from 34th to 18th place with the best slalom time. A month later he finished 13th in the super combined in Wengen , again with the fastest time in the slalom. With a 10th place in the Hahnenkamm Slalom in Kitzbühel , Grange qualified for the 2006 Winter Olympics . There he achieved 13th place in the super combined, with the second-best slalom run; in the slalom he was eliminated in the second round. At the end of the season he won his first French slalom championship in Courchevel .

After the resignation of Jean-Pierre Vidal and the injury-related loss of Stéphane Tissot , the hopes of the French Ski Association rested on Grange at the beginning of the 2006/07 World Cup season . With three top 10 results, he was able to meet these expectations. The greatest success of his career to date was at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Åre in 2007 , where he surprisingly won the bronze medal in slalom behind Mario Matt and Manfred Mölgg . He confirmed this result two weeks later, on March 4, 2007, when he finished fourth in the World Cup slalom in Kranjska Gora .

Grange achieved on November 29, 2007 as second in the super combination of Beaver Creek for the first time a podium finish in a World Cup race. He achieved his first victory on December 17, 2007 in the slalom on the Gran Risa in Alta Badia . During the 2007/08 World Cup season he won three more races; in Wengen the super combination and the slalom, in Kitzbühel the slalom. This season he also scored points in the giant slalom for the first time. Before the World Cup final in Bormio he was in the lead in the slalom discipline, but was overtaken by Manfred Mölgg by 19 points.

In the 2008/09 season , Grange won two more World Cup slaloms. Together with four other podium places, this was enough to win the slalom discipline. In the overall World Cup, he reached fifth place. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère , Grange finished seventh in the giant slalom. In the slalom, he was on the medal course again as third in the first run, but failed in the second run. He didn't finish in the super combined either. At the end of the season he won the French Slalom Championship for the second time. In April 2009 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

In November 2009 Grange won the first ever European Indoor Championships . On December 6, 2009, he tore a cruciate ligament in his right knee in the giant slalom at Beaver Creek without falling . He was out for the remainder of the 2009/10 season and thus also missed the 2010 Winter Olympics . Almost a year later, Grange won the first race after his injury break at Levi . After further victories in Kitzbühel and Schladming in January 2011, he was one of the most popular favorites before the 2011 World Cup . In Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he met expectations and won the gold medal in the slalom. After the end of the season he was operated on on his shoulder.

Impaired by intervertebral disc problems, Grange was unable to match the performance of the previous winter in the slalom World Cup season 2011/12 . He was in the top ten five times, and there were no podiums. On the other hand, he achieved 4th place in the giant slalom in Crans-Montana on February 26, 2012, the best result in this discipline to date. In April 2012, Grange had to undergo another cruciate ligament operation in his right knee, and he was only able to start snow training again in October. The best slalom World Cup result of the winter 2012/13 was a 14th place, plus a fifth place at the City Event in Moscow . In the winter of 2013/14 he caught up with the world's best, with a 4th place as the best result; he also finished in the top ten three more times.

Grange was in a similar framework during the 2014/15 season : In December and January he was classified in the top ten four times in a row, with 6th place in Adelboden being his best result. He was not a favorite at the 2015 World Cup . On February 15, 2015, the slalom was the last men's World Championship race on the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek . After the first round, Grange was in 5th place, 0.88 seconds behind the leader Marcel Hirscher . In the second run, which was characterized by increasingly thick snowfall, he drove the best time. Three of the drivers ahead of him could not undercut his overall time, while Hirscher was eliminated. Surprisingly, Grange was the slalom world champion for the second time, ahead of the two Germans Fritz Dopfer and Felix Neureuther .

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On January 20, 2019, Grange tore a cruciate ligament in his left knee during the Wengen slalom, as well as a meniscus injury.

successes

winter Olympics

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points
2005/06 76. 63 - - 40. 30th 22nd 33
2006/07 29 309 - - 10. 242 17th 67
2007/08 8th. 793 26th 61 2. 512 4th 220
2008/09 5. 887 11. 192 1. 541 6th 154
2009/10 56. 146 31. 36 29 60 22nd 50
2010/11 16. 454 42. 12 2. 442 - -
2011/12 34. 275 17th 145 22nd 130 - -
2012/13 69. 192 - - 23. 192 - -
2013/14 32. 266 - - 8th. 266 - -
2014/15 42. 197 - - 13. 197 - -
2015/16 61. 156 - - 19th 156 - -
2016/17 60. 122 - - 20th 122 - -
2017/18 53. 130 - - 21st 130 - -
2018/19 63. 108 - - 22nd 108 - -
2019/20 73. 113 - - 17th 117 - -

World Cup victories

So far, Grange has achieved 18 podium places in individual races, 9 of them victories:

date place country discipline
December 17, 2007 Alta Badia Italy slalom
January 11, 2008 Wengen Switzerland Super combination
January 12, 2008 Wengen Switzerland slalom
January 20, 2008 Kitzbühel Austria slalom
November 16, 2008 Levi Finland slalom
January 6, 2009 Zagreb Croatia slalom
November 14, 2010 Levi Finland slalom
January 23, 2011 Kitzbühel Austria slalom
January 25, 2011 Schladming Austria slalom

There are also 2 podium places in team competitions .

European Cup

  • 6 podium places in the European Cup, including 2 wins:
date place country discipline
11th March 2013 Kranjska Gora Slovenia slalom
January 3, 2014 Chamonix France slalom

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Slalhomme. Liberation , March 4, 2008, p. 40
  2. ↑ Aux origines du mâle . Sportweek, January 30, 2009, pp. 16-18.
  3. ^ Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Grange. (No longer available online.) Skiinfo.de, February 20, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 27, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / magazin.skiinfo.de  
  4. ^ Légion d'honneur: Vincent Bolloré et Max Gallo promus. Le Monde , April 12, 2009, accessed February 27, 2011 .
  5. ^ End of the season for Jean-Baptiste Grange. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 8, 2009, accessed December 8, 2009 .
  6. ↑ a b c Slalom world champion Grange is operated on again. Kleine Zeitung , April 5, 2012, accessed May 5, 2020.
  7. ↑ Slalom world champion Grange back in snow training. sport.orf.at, October 10, 2012, accessed on October 12, 2012.
  8. ↑ Sensation by Jean-Baptiste Grange. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, March 24, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 24, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Season ended for Grange after knee injury. Salzburger Nachrichten , January 21, 2019, accessed on March 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Grange, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne , France