Madeleine Bochatay

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Madeleine Bochatay Alpine skiing
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 2nd January 1944 (age 76)
place of birth Saint-Gervais-les-Bains , France
size 169 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline Downhill , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
status resigned
 

Madeleine Bochatay (married Bochatay-Montessuit , born January 2, 1944 in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains ) is a former French ski racer . In the 1960s she achieved numerous victories and podiums in international races and three top 10 placements at world championships and the Olympic Games .

Career

The then 17-year-old Bochatay rose to the top of the world in downhill in the winter of 1961 . In addition to her victory at the French championships , she achieved a victory in the downhill from Chamonix and a second place in her home town of Saint-Gervais that year . At the Arlberg-Kandahar races in Mürren , she was sixth in the downhill and tenth in the combination in 1961. Before the start of the 1962 World Cup , Bochatay was second in the FIS world rankings in the downhill , behind the Austrian Traudl Hecher . Bochatay also achieved good results in the giant slalom , including a win in Saint-Gervais and third place in Courchevel in the winter of 1962 . At the 1962 World Cup in Chamonix, she was seventh in the downhill and tenth in the giant slalom.

In the winter of 1963 Bochatay took two second places in the giant slalom of the SDS races in Grindelwald and in the downhill of the Coppa Femina in Abetone . At the Arlberg-Kandahar races, this time in Chamonix, she finished sixth in the downhill like two years earlier. The next two years were less successful overall, but at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , Bochatay, who started with number one, achieved sixth place in the downhill. In the Olympic giant slalom, however, she was eliminated. At the Arlberg-Kandahar races of the same year, she was seventh in the giant slalom. From the 1965 season, Bochatay achieved good results in slalom in addition to downhill and giant slalom . In 1965, in addition to two fourth places in the descents of the gold key race in Schruns and the SDS race in Grindelwald, she also achieved a second fifth place in the slalom and giant slalom in Grindelwald.

In the winter of 1965/66 Bochatay celebrated, among other things, two victories in the combination of the first snow criterion in Val-d'Isère and in the giant slalom of the Staufen Cup in Oberstaufen , where she also came third in slalom and combined. She also came third in the downhill run of the silver jug ​​races in Bad Gastein . At her last major event, the 1966 World Cup in Portillo , Chile , she finished 14th in the downhill.

successes

winter Olympics

(also counted as world championships)

World championships

Podiums in FIS races (selection)

  • 1961: Victory in the Chamonix descent
  • 1961: 2nd place in the descent of Saint-Gervais
  • 1962: victory in the giant slalom in Saint-Gervais
  • 1962: 3rd place in the giant slalom in Courchevel
  • 1963: 2nd place in the giant slalom of the SDS races in Grindelwald
  • 1963: 2nd place in the descent of the Coppa Femina in Abetone
  • 1966: Victory in the combination of the first snow criterion in Val-d'Isère
  • 1966: Victory in giant slalom and third place in slalom and combination of the Staufen Cup in Oberstaufen
  • 1966: 3rd place in the downhill run of the Silberkrugrennen in Bad Gastein

French championships

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austria Ski Sport. Booklet 2/1961, p. 12 and Booklet 3/1962, p. 33.
  2. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 227.
  3. ↑ a b c Top 10 placements in the AK races 1956 to 1966. ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kandahar Ski Club website, accessed April 10, 2012 (PDF, 43 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kandahar.org.uk
  4. ^ Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austria Ski Sport. Issue 2/1962, p. 15.
  5. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , pp. 237 and 239.
  6. ^ Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austria Ski Sport. Issue 3/1962, p. 19.
  7. ^ Austrian Ski Association (Ed.): Austria Ski Sport. Issue 3/1962, pp. 7 and 33.
  8. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , pp. 256, 269 and leaflet 6 (without page numbers).
  9. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , leaflets 6 and 8 (without page numbers).
  10. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , p. 309.
  11. ↑ Three French women before Traudl Hecher . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 8, 1966, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  12. ↑ Only Grete Digruber kept up . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 9, 1966, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  13. ^ Hermann Nussbaumer: Victory on white slopes. Balance of alpine skiing. 9th expanded edition, Trauner Verlag, Linz 1977, ISBN 3-85320-176-8 , leaflet 8 (without page number).
  14. ↑ http://www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com/1966.htm, accessed on November 10, 2010 (website no longer accessible).
personal data
SURNAME Bochatay, Madeleine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bochatay-Montessuit, Madeleine (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Gervais-les-Bains , France