Jean-Frédéric Chapuis

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Jean-Frédéric Chapuis Freestyle skiing
FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2015 - Megève - 20150313 - Jean-Frédéric Chapuis 3.jpg
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 2nd March 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Bourg-Saint-Maurice
size 172 cm
Weight 83 kg
Career
discipline Ski cross
society CO Val Thorens
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Sochi 2014 Ski cross
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Voss 2013 Ski cross
silver Kreischberg 2015 Ski cross
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup December 18, 2010
 World Cup victories 18th
 Overall World Cup 3. ( 2014/15 , 2015/16 )
 Ski cross world cup 1. (2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Ski cross 18th 3 12
last change: December 7, 2019

Jean-Frédéric Chapuis (born March 2, 1989 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice ) is a French - Swiss freestyle skier . He specializes in the discipline of ski cross . His greatest successes are the world championship title in 2013, the Olympic victory in 2014 as well as winning the World Cup discipline in the 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2017/18 seasons.

biography

Chapuis was an alpine ski racer at the beginning of his sports career . From December 2004 he took part in FIS races and national junior races. He won two FIS races and took part in the 2008 Junior World Championship in Formigal , where 12th place in the combined ranking was his best result. Successes in the European Cup races, in which he has participated since January 2008, failed to materialize. At the end of the 2009/10 season he switched to the freestyle discipline ski cross.

Chapuis made his debut in the Freestyle World Cup on December 18, 2010 in San Candido , where he finished 8th and immediately won his first World Cup points. Another eighth place was added a month later in Les Contamines . In the winter of 2011/12 he was in the top ten five times in the World Cup. He achieved his first podium on February 26, 2012 in Grasgehren (3rd place). Due to an injury, Chapuis missed the start of the 2012/13 season . Nevertheless, he was nominated for the 2013 World Championships in Voss and surprisingly won the gold medal. A week later, on March 17, 2013, he won a World Cup race for the first time in Åre .

At the 2014 Winter Olympics , Chapuis won ahead of his French compatriots Arnaud Bovolenta and Jonathan Midol . During the 2013/14 World Cup season , he won a race in La Plagne . He won the silver medal at the 2015 World Championships on Kreischberg . After the World Cup, he achieved five podium places in the second half of the 2014/15 World Cup winter (including four wins in a row), which was the first time that he won the ski cross discipline. Chapuis was similarly successful in the 2015/16 season : he won four races and achieved two more podium finishes, which meant that he repeated winning the discipline ranking.

The 2016/17 World Cup season also went according to his plans: Chapuis was on the podium in six of 14 races held, four of which were the winner. This was the third time in a row that he won the discipline ranking. However , he was unlucky at the 2017 World Championships in the Sierra Nevada at the end of the season. After setting the best time in qualifying, he was eliminated in the round of 16 and only finished 25th.

Private

His mother, Katharina Güller, is a Swiss woman who taught at the Arosa primary school for many years . As a result, Jean-Frédéric Chapuis, who grew up in Val Thorens , speaks fluent German and has both French and Swiss citizenship. Before switching to ski cross, he occasionally competed in alpine races for Swiss-Ski .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Ski cross
space Points space Points
2010/11 76. 10 23. 115
2011/12 23. 28 7th 277
2012/13 22nd 34 4th 343
2013/14 21st 35 4th 381
2014/15 3. 68 1. 747
2015/16 3. 57.83 1. 694
2016/17 4th 54.50 1. 763
2017/18 14th 40.30 2. 403
2018/19 7th 52.00 2. 572
2019/20 69. 18.36 14th 202

World Cup victories

Chapuis has achieved 33 podiums in the World Cup so far, including 18 victories:

No. date place country
1 17th March 2013 Are Sweden
2 March 23, 2014 La Plagne France
3 February 15, 2015 Are Sweden
4th February 21, 2015 Tegernsee Germany
5 February 22, 2015 Tegernsee Germany
6th March 14, 2015 Megève France
7th December 9, 2015 Val Thorens France
8th 19th December 2015 San Candido Italy
9 January 16, 2016 Watles Italy
10 January 23, 2016 Nakiska Canada
11 December 9, 2016 Val Thornes France
12 17th December 2016 Montafon Austria
13 4th February 2017 Feldberg Germany
14th 5th February 2017 Feldberg Germany
15th January 14, 2018 Idre Sweden
16 20th January 2019 Idre Sweden
17th 17th February 2019 Feldberg Germany
18th 17th March 2019 Veysonnaz Switzerland

More Achievements

Web links

Commons : Jean-Frédéric Chapuis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Championship silver for Fanny Smith in the Sierra Nevada. Aargauer Zeitung , March 18, 2017, accessed on January 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Hans Danuser : Arosa - as it was then (1962–1978) , vol. 5, self-published by Danuser, Arosa 2001, p. 203.
  3. ↑ Southeast Switzerland of March 7, 2014, p. 26.
  4. ↑ Swiss men in ski cross without a medal. In: Südostschweiz.ch. February 20, 2014, accessed February 20, 2014 .
  5. ↑ At least a “third” of a gold medal for Graubünden. In: Südostschweiz.ch. February 21, 2014, accessed February 22, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Chapuis, Jean-Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourg-Saint-Maurice