Leila Piccard

Leila Piccard
nation	France
birthday	11th January 1971 (age 49)
place of birth	Les Saisies , France
Career
discipline	Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
status	resigned
End of career	2000
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Sestriere 1997 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 1  Overall World Cup 13. ( 1997/98 )  Super G World Cup 39th ( 1992/93 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 7. ( 1998/99 )  Slalom World Cup 6. ( 1994/95 )  Combination World Cup 10. ( 1993/94 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 0 0 2  slalom 0 0 1  Parallel races 1 0 0

Leila Piccard (born January 11, 1971 in Les Saisies ) is a former French ski racer . She was one of the strongest technicians in the second half of the 1990s.

The Piccard family was represented in the Ski World Cup several times in the 1990s, in addition to Leila, Olympic champion Franck Piccard and the brothers John (* 1965), Ian (* 1968) and Jeff (* 1976) were in the racing scene - brother Ted is a ski crosser .

Leila Piccard celebrated her only World Cup victory in Tignes, where she won the parallel slalom on October 24, 1997 . In addition, she reached 3rd place three times. From 1993 to 1999 Piccard took part in world championships. The most valuable result she achieved at the 1997 World Championships in Sestriere in giant slalom . After she was 12th in the 1st run, she set the absolute best time in the 2nd run. Piccard thus moved up to 3rd place and won the bronze medal behind Deborah Compagnoni and Karin Roten . At the Olympic Games, in which she participated in 1994 and 1998 , she remained without result.

From 1993 to 1999 Piccard was four times French champion in giant slalom. In 2000 she retired from ski racing.

Web links

• Leila Piccard in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Leila Piccard in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Leila Piccard in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )