Marc Berthod

Marc Berthod
Marc Berthod in January 2007
nation	Switzerland
birthday	24th November 1983 (age 36)
place of birth	St. Moritz , Switzerland
size	180 cm
Weight	91 kg
Career
discipline	Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination
society	Alpina St. Moritz
status	resigned
End of career	September 2016
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 2 × Junior World Championship 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Alpine World Ski Championships bronze Are 2007 Super combination bronze Are 2007 team  Alpine Ski Junior World Championships silver Sella Nevea 2002 slalom gold Briançonnais 2003 slalom bronze Briançonnais 2003 Departure
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut January 4, 2003  Individual world cup victories 2  Overall World Cup 8. ( 2006/07 )  Downhill World Cup 52nd ( 2014/15 )  Super G World Cup 36th (2006/07)  Giant Slalom World Cup 7th ( 2007/08 )  Slalom World Cup 6. (2006/07)  Combination World Cup 2. (2006/07)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 1 0 1  slalom 1 0 0  combination 0 2 0  team 0 1 1

Marc Berthod (born November 24, 1983 in St. Moritz ) is a former Swiss ski racer . His uncle is the former ski racer René Berthod . His younger sister Pascale was also a ski racer.

biography

After attending sports secondary school in Davos , Berthod concentrated entirely on alpine skiing. Since 2004 he has been a professional in the Swiss B-squad. In 1996 he won the Whistler Cup giant slalom . He celebrated his first major international successes at the Junior World Championships. In 2002 he became junior vice world champion in slalom in Sella Nevea . The following year he won the junior world championship in slalom in Montgenèvre and was third in the downhill.

Since January 2003, Berthod has regularly participated in the races for the Ski World Cup. At his first Olympic participation in 2006 in Turin , he became an instant seventh in the combination . On November 30, 2006 he achieved 2nd place in the super combined of Beaver Creek . On January 7, 2007 he surprisingly won the Adelboden slalom in front of 15,000 spectators with start number 60 and after finishing 27th in the first run with the fastest time in the second run . He ensured the Swiss men's team's first World Cup victory in 103 races and, at the same time, the men's first victory in slalom since 1999. At the 2007 World Championships in Åre , he won the bronze medal in the super combined. He also took bronze with the Swiss team in the team competition behind world champions Austria and Sweden .

Berthod will celebrate the second World Cup victory on January 5, 2008 again in Adelboden, this time in the giant slalom. From next winter onwards, however, he was unable to match his earlier results in the World Cup; only rarely did he achieve placements in the top ten. At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère he was tenth in giant slalom, at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver he only achieved 29th place. At the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he was 21st in giant slalom.

In December 2014, he fell while training and fell out with a serious knee injury. When he finally two weeks, "fit for work" in 2016, he was first disenchanted with the World Cup combined downhill in Wengen drove home and fell again then at a construction ride on 27 January 2016 in the European Cup he suffered during a fall in Davos a Concussion and shoulder injuries: fracture of a cervical attachment, multiple fractures of the rib and a lung contusion. On September 22, 2016, Berthod announced his retirement from skiing.

Berthod is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play . Since the beginning of the 2017/18 season he has been working as a co-commentator for Swiss television .

successes

Olympic games

• Turin 2006 : 7th combination, 14th slalom, 17th giant slalom
• Vancouver 2010 : 29th giant slalom

World championships

• St. Moritz 2003 : 25th combination
• Åre 2007 : 3rd super combined, 3rd team competition, 11th giant slalom
• Val-d'Isère 2009 : 10th giant slalom
• Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2011 : 21st giant slalom
• Schladming 2013 : 25th super combination

World Cup ratings

season	total		Departure		Super G		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
2004/05	97.	36	-	-	-	-	35.	36	-	-	-	-
2005/06	71.	78	-	-	-	-	34.	34	43.	26th	32.	18th
2006/07	8th.	591	-	-	36.	15th	22nd	52	6th	322	2.	202
2007/08	21st	411	-	-	43.	7th	7th	249	21st	131	36.	24
2008/09	62.	111	54.	4th	37.	13	21st	94	-	-	-	-
2009/10	63.	112	-	-	17th	79	37.	33	-	-	-	-
2010/11	61.	125	-	-	-	-	18th	100	53.	10	33.	15th
2011/12	106.	32	-	-	-	-	35.	32	-	-	-	-
2012/13	89.	42	-	-	-	-	43.	10	-	-	13.	32
2013/14	112.	19th	50.	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	27.	14th
2014/15	122.	16	52.	10	51.	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-

World Cup victories

• 5 podium places in individual races, including 2 victories:

date	place	country	discipline
January 7, 2007	Adelboden	Switzerland	slalom
January 5, 2008	Adelboden	Switzerland	Giant slalom

• 2 podium places in team competitions

Junior World Championships

• Sella Nevea 2002 : 2nd slalom
• Briançonnais 2003 : 1st slalom, 3rd downhill, 6th super-G

More Achievements

• 3 Swiss championship titles (giant slalom 2005 and 2007, combination 2006)
• 1 podium each in the Europe and Nor-Am Cup
• 5 victories in FIS races

Web links

• Marc Berthod's website
• Marc Berthod in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Marc Berthod in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Marc Berthod in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Skistar seriously injured: Berthod threatens to end his career , view January 27, 2016
2. ↑ It is correct as it was , NZZ, October 14, 2016
3. ↑ SRF is entering the Olympic winter with two quartets. (No longer available online.) Skionline.ch, April 17, 2017, archived from the original on April 27, 2017 ; Retrieved May 3, 2017 .