Marc Berthod
Marc Berthod | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Marc Berthod in January 2007 |
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nation | Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 24th November 1983 (age 36) | |||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | St. Moritz , Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||
size | 180 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 91 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline |
Super-G , giant slalom , slalom , combination |
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society | Alpina St. Moritz | |||||||||||||||||||||
status | resigned | |||||||||||||||||||||
End of career | September 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||
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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 |
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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
- ↑ Skistar seriously injured: Berthod threatens to end his career , view January 27, 2016
- ↑ It is correct as it was , NZZ, October 14, 2016
- ↑ 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 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Berthod, Marc |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Moritz , Switzerland |