Léo Lacroix (ski racer)
Léo Lacroix | |||||||||||||||||||
nation | France | ||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 26th November 1937 (age 82) | ||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Bois-d'Amont , France | ||||||||||||||||||
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Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
End of career | 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Léo Lacroix (born November 26, 1937 in Bois-d'Amont ) is a former French ski racer .
He celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , when he won the silver medal behind the Austrian Egon Zimmermann in the downhill . Two years later he was able to confirm this performance at the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1966 with two second places in the downhill and in the alpine combination . In 1955, 1960 and 1963 Lacroix was French champion in slalom , in 1963 he also won the downhill. In 1964 he won the Silver Belt in the Sugar Bowl .
Lacroix ended his career as a competitive athlete in 1967. The following year he was invited to the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble to take the Olympic oath . After his career as a ski racer, Lacroix built an equally successful career as the owner of a ski factory.
Web links
- Léo Lacroix in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Léo Lacroix in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Léo Lacroix in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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SURNAME | Lacroix, Léo |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bois-d'Amont , France |