Léo Lacroix (ski racer)

Léo Lacroix
nation	France
birthday	26th November 1937 (age 82)
place of birth	Bois-d'Amont , France
Career
discipline	Downhill , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	1967
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Innsbruck 1964 Departure  Alpine World Ski Championships silver Innsbruck 1964 Departure silver Portillo 1966 Departure silver Portillo 1966 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1967  Overall World Cup 4th ( 1967 )  Downhill World Cup 7th (1967)  Giant Slalom World Cup 4th (1967)  Slalom World Cup 8. (1967)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Departure 0 1 0  Giant slalom 0 1 0  slalom 0 0 1

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 )