Laurence Rochat

Laurence Rochat
Laurence Rochat (2014)
nation	Switzerland
birthday	1st August 1979 (age 41)
place of birth	Pompaples
size	176 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
society	Vallée de Joux ski club
National squad	since 1996
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × National medals 14 × 5 × 3 ×
winter Olympics bronze Salt Lake City 2002 Season
Placements in the cross-country skiing world cup
Debut in the World Cup November 28, 1998 in Muonio  Overall World Cup 44th ( 05/06 )  Sprint World Cup 29. ( 05/06 )  Distance World Cup 42nd ( 07/08 )
last change: October 2nd, 2018

Laurence Rochat (born August 1, 1979 ) is a former Swiss cross-country skier .

Career

Rochat started at her first international races, Continental Cups and FIS races at the age of sixteen . In early 1996 she took part in the Junior World Championship in Asiago and was 48th over 5 kilometers. In the next two years she improved these results and finished nineteenth and fifth on the same route, and she was also a multiple Swiss champion. In December 1998 Rochat was nominated for the cross-country skiing world cup for the first time , but until the end of 2000 she did not get any places in the points up to 30. By this time she had already won two FIS races and finished some on the podium. 2001 was a successful year for Rochat, she finished 27th in the World Cup and achieved the top 20 places in the World Cup for the first time. The upward trend continued in 2002, too, when she took part in the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City for the first time, where she surprisingly won the bronze medal with the relay team led by Andrea Huber , Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan and Natascia Leonardi Cortesi . Also in the team, she finished ninth in a World Cup race at the end of the year.

In the next few years Rochat achieved further World Cup points and podium results in FIS races, only in the major events it remained largely unsuccessful. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin she missed the top ten places with the team, she did not take part in many world championships, in 2005 she achieved eighth place in the team sprint. At the Tour de Ski , which was held for the first time in 2007 , she gave up and was not rated.

Overall, Rochat's best World Cup result is a fourth place with the team in Bern in 2004, in the individual she only managed to jump into the top 10, as eighth in the sprint in December 2005 in Vernon. She is also a fourteen-time Swiss champion. In 2007 she won the Engadin Skimarathon .

In February 2010 Rochat won the Transjurassienne over the 25 km short distance in the classic technique. After the 2009/2010 season, she ended her cross-country skiing career. Professionally, she was able to join her long-term sponsor, the watch manufacturer Audemars Piguet , in the event sector.

successes

Victories in Worldloppet Cup races

Note: Before the 2015/16 season, the Worldloppet Cup was still called the Marathon Cup .

No.	date	place	run	discipline
1.	March 11, 2007	Maloja - S-chanf	Engadin ski marathon	42 km freestyle mass start

Other victories in ski marathon races

• 2010 Transjurassienne , 25 km classic

Victories in Continental Cup races

No.	date	place	discipline	series
1.	March 20, 2004	La Thomasette	5 km freestyle	Continental Cup
2.	March 21, 2004	La Thomasette	10 km classic pursuit	Continental Cup
3.	January 10, 2010	Oberwiesenthal	10 km classic	Alpine Cup

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

• 2002 Salt Lake City : 3rd place relay, 21st place 30 km classic, 22nd place 10 km pursuit
• 2006 Turin : 11th place relay, 15th place sprint freestyle, 25th place 10 km classic

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 2001 Lahti : 7th place relay, 28th place 15 km classic, 33rd place 10 km classic
• 2003 Val di Fiemme : 10th place relay, 39th place 10 km classic, 43rd place 2 × 5 km double pursuit
• 2005 Oberstdorf : 8th place team sprint freestyle, 11th place relay, 12th place 30 km classic mass start, 27th place 10 km freestyle
• 2007 Sapporo : 9th place relay, 14th place team sprint freestyle, 25th place sprint classic

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup Statistics

The table shows the placements achieved in detail.

• 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
• Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
• Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
• Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
• Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.

placement	Distance races a					Skiathlon pursuit	sprint	Stage race b	total	Team c
	≤ 5 km	≤ 10 km	≤ 15 km	≤ 30 km	> 30 km					sprint	Season
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10							1		1	3	6th
Scoring	1	14th	4th	3		6th	23		51	7th	11
Starts	11	45	7th	4th		13	39		119	7th	11
Status: end of career

^a including individual starts and mass starts according to FIS classification

^bEntire race, not individual stages, e.g. B. Tour de Ski, Nordic Opening, season finale

^c Possibly incomplete due to a lack of suitable sources before 2001

World Cup overall placements

season	total		distance		sprint
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2000/01	25th	70.	-	-	17th	51.
2001/02	44	54.	-	-	22nd	44.
2002/03	2	100.	-	-	2	67.
2003/04	72	52.	72	34.	-	-
2004/05	63	52.	11	54.	56	27.
2005/06	121	44.	50	44.	71	29
2006/07	73	49.	24	50.	49	34.
2007/08	24	68.	24	42.	-	-
2008/09	27	69.	9	74.	18th	56.
2009/10	32	79.	20th	64.	12	73.

Web links

• Laurence Rochat in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)

• Laurence Rochat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Rochats website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Result 25 km classic Transjurassienne 2010
2. ^ Christian Stahl: Withdrawal from professional sports. (No longer available online.) FIS, March 30, 2010, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 7, 2010 (English).  ( 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.