Marie-Luce Waldmeier
Marie-Luce Waldmeier 
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| birthday | 1st July 1960 (age 60) | ||||||||
| place of birth | Ambilly , France | ||||||||
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| discipline | Departure | ||||||||
| society | SC Morzine | ||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||
| End of career | 1984 | ||||||||
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Marie-Luce Waldmeier (born July 1, 1960 in Ambilly ) is a former French ski racer whose specialty was downhill . She took part in two Olympic Games and a World Championship , made it onto the podium in two World Cup races and was twice French champion .
biography
Waldmeier, along with her colleagues Caroline Attia , Elisabeth Chaud , Claudine Emonet , Marie-Cécile Gros-Gaudenier , Carole Merle and Catherine Quittet, was one of the strongest downhill skiers on the French team in the 1980s. The then 18-year-old won her first points in the World Cup as tenth on the descent from Les Diablerets on January 12, 1979. After two further tenth places in Lake Placid (March 1979) and Pfronten (January 1980), she started at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, where she finished 16th in the downhill. In the same winter she became French downhill champion, which she succeeded in 1983.
At the beginning of the 1980/81 season Waldmeier drove in the downhill from Val-d'Isère to sixth place, which remained her best World Cup result of the winter. She was among the top ten twice more. The next year, the Frenchwoman finished 13th in the downhill at the 1982 World Cup in Schladming , which was within the scope of her World Cup results in the 1981/82 season . Shortly after the world championship, she reached fourth place in the second World Cup downhill run from Arosa , just missing out on her first podium finish. She finally achieved such a podium finish on January 21, 1983 with third place in Megève , after she had previously been among the top ten in ten World Cup runs.
In her last season, 1983/84 , Waldmeier was no longer as consistent as in previous years. She only finished in the points in two World Cup descents, i.e. among the fastest 15, but after finishing fourth in Haus im Ennstal, she achieved second place in the downhill from Mont Sainte-Anne at the end of the season, her best World Cup result, which is her third time in episode 13th of the Downhill World Cup. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo , she had only finished 20th two weeks earlier.
successes
winter Olympics
- Lake Placid 1980 : 16th Downhill (also counted as World Championship)
- Sarajevo 1984 : 20th departure
World championships
- Schladming 1982 : 13th descent
World cup
- 2 podium places and a further 11 placements among the top ten
French championships
Web links
- Marie-Luce Waldmeier in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
- Marie-Luce Waldmeier in the database of Ski-DB (English)
- Marie-Luce Waldmeier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Waldmeier, Marie-Luce |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ambilly , France |