Jean-Luc Brassard

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Jean-Luc Brassard Freestyle skiing
Jean-Luc Brassard (2015)
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday 24th August 1972 (age 48)
place of birth Salaberry-de-Valleyfield , Quebec , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 71 kg
Career
discipline Moguls, dual moguls
society Club de Ski Acrobatique Mont Gabriel
status resigned
End of career 2002
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Lillehammer 1994 Moguls
FIS Freestyle Skiing World Championships
gold Altenmarkt-Zauchensee 1993 Moguls
silver La Clusaz 1995 Moguls
gold Nagano 1997 Moguls
Placements in the Freestyle Skiing World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup November 30, 1990
 World Cup victories 20th
 Overall World Cup 3. (1992/93)
 Mughal World Cup 1. (1992/93, 1995/96, 1996/97)
 Dual Moguls World Cup 2. (1996/97, 1997/98)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Moguls 18th 11 13
 Dual moguls 2 0 1
 

Jean-Luc Brassard (born August 24, 1972 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield , Québec ) is a former Canadian freestyle skier . He was on the moguls specialized disciplines, contained moguls and dual moguls. In the discipline of Moguls, he was world champion in 1993 and 1997 and Olympic champion in 1994. In addition, he won three World Cup rankings and 20 individual competitions, which makes him one of the most successful athletes of all time on the moguls.

biography

Athletic career

Jean-Luc Brassard started skiing at the age of eight on a hill near his hometown. At the age of 17 he was accepted into the team of Canadian freestylers.

He made his World Cup debut in November 1990, finishing 26th in La Plagne . Only two months later he celebrated his first of a total of 20 World Cup victories on the mogul slope at Mont Gabriel, not far from his home. At his first Olympic Games in Albertville , he had to be content with seventh place. He finally established himself at the top of the world in the 1992/93 season, when he not only secured the Moguls overall ranking with six wins, but also the world championship title in Altenmarkt - Zauchensee . With third place he also achieved his best placement in the overall Freestyle World Cup. In February 1994 he won the gold medal as a favorite at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer , making himself Canada's first male Olympic champion in a snow sport.

In the winters of 1995/96 and 1996/97 he repeated the overall victory in the Moguls World Cup and also entered the list of winners in the new parallel discipline Dual Moguls. After he had to be satisfied with the silver medal at the 1995 World Cup in La Clusaz , he won gold again two years later in Nagano . After that, he could not quite build on his great successes. In his third Olympic participation in Nagano, he narrowly missed the medal ranks in fourth, in the Moguls classification he was replaced in 1998 by the new Olympic champion Jonny Moseley .

Brassard continued his career until the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City , where he did not get past 21st place. After the end of the season he resigned from active competitive sports. He contested his last FIS race in February 2004.

Further career

Jean-Luc Brassard was already known for his social commitment during his sports career and was awarded the Gillette Sport Award for charity in 2000. Following his successful career, he gave lectures and worked as a radio commentator. In 2014 he was assistant to the Chef de Mission of the Canadian Olympic team in Sochi . At the end of the year he was appointed Chef de Mission for the Summer Games in Rio by the Canadian Olympic Committee . In April 2016, however, he withdrew prematurely from his contract after he was disappointed in the way the COC was handling the case involving President Marcel About, who had resigned on charges of harassment . His successor was the former track cyclist Curt Harnett .

In 2008 Jean-Luc Brassard was inducted into the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame, and in 2010 into the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports .

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World Cup ratings

season total Moguls Dual moguls
space Points space Points space Points
1990/91 24. 20th 7th 157 - -
1991/92 9. 24 2. 189 - -
1992/93 3. 98 1. 880 - -
1993/94 9. 93 3. 744 - -
1994/95 13. 91 3. 636 - -
1995/96 7th 92 1. 732 24. 44
1996/97 4th 95 1. 476 2. 368
1997/98 9. 88 2. 528 2. 316
1998/99 9. 77 4th 308 23. 44
1999/00 17th 70 8th. 352 13. 92
2001/02 14th 78 7th 468 20th 64

World Cup victories

Brassard achieved 45 podiums in the World Cup, including 20 victories:

date place country discipline
February 2, 1991 Mont Gabriel Canada Moguls
December 12, 1991 Zermatt Switzerland Moguls
December 19, 1992 Piancavallo Italy Moguls
January 22, 1993 Lake Placid United States Moguls
January 30, 1993 Le relay Canada Moguls
February 20, 1993 Meiringen - Hasliberg Switzerland Moguls
March 17, 1993 Livigno Italy Moguls
March 27, 1993 Lillehammer Norway Moguls
January 29, 1994 Le relay Canada Moguls
March 4, 1994 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Moguls
December 10, 1995 Tignes France Moguls
4th February 1996 Kirchberg Austria Moguls
February 14, 1996 La Clusaz France Moguls
December 8, 1996 Tignes France Dual moguls
January 12, 1997 Lake Placid United States Moguls
March 7, 1997 Altenmarkt-Zauchensee Austria Moguls
December 6, 1997 Tignes France Dual moguls
January 11, 1998 Mont Tremblant Canada Moguls
January 24, 1998 Blackcomb Canada Moguls
January 9, 1999 Mont Tremblant Canada Moguls

More Achievements

  • 4 Canadian championship titles (Moguls 1993–1995 and 1999)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Jean-Luc Brassard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jean-Luc Brassard. Sports Reference LLC, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame - Jean-Luc Brassard. Canadian Ski Museum, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Jean-Luc Brassard. Canadian Olympic Committee , accessed January 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ Jean-Luc Brassard quits as Canada's chef de mission for Rio Olympics. Toronto Star , April 11, 2016, accessed January 11, 2020 .
  5. ^ Hall of Famer - Jean-Luc Brassard. Canada's Sports Hall of Fame , accessed January 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Brassard, Jean-Luc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian freestyle skier
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Salaberry-de-Valleyfield , Quebec