Mark Taché

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Mark Taché Alpine skiing
nation United StatesUnited States United States
birthday 3rd July 1959
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
downhill , combination
society Aspen Valley Ski Club
status resigned
End of career 1992 (as a professional)
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Overall World Cup 87th ( 1983/84 )
 Slalom World Cup 31. (1983/84)
 

Mark Taché (born July 3, 1959 ) is a retired American ski racer . He was a member of the US ski team from 1978 to 1985, during which time he took part in two world championships and achieved a top 10 placement in the World Cup . Then he drove professional races until 1992.

biography

Mark taches father Yvan Taché took in 1950 for Canada at the Alpine Ski World Championships in Aspen part. In 1960 the family moved to the winter sports resort Aspen. Mark Taché joined the Aspen Valley Ski Club and was inducted into the US ski team in 1978. He celebrated his first major successes in 1980 when he won the overall, downhill and giant slalom classification of the Nor-Am Cup and the downhill run of the Roch Cup in Aspen. In the same year he was named Junior Alpine Skier of the Year by the renowned Ski Racing Magazine . His only points in the World Cup won Taché on March 6, 1984 with ninth place in the slalom of Vail . In his two world championships he was without result: in 1982 he retired in Schladming after a twelfth place in the combined slalom in the combined descent and in 1985 he did not see the goal in Bormio in the first round of the giant slalom. In 1985, after eight years on the US ski team, Taché ended his career with the amateurs and switched to the professionals. He competed in the World Pro Ski Tour for seven years and achieved second place in the slalom classification in 1987. Also in 1987 he was runner-up at the Professional World Championship in Aspen. In 1992 he ended his professional career.

From 1992 to 1995, Taché was the head coach at the Aspen Valley Ski Club. He hosted ski races like the Pro-Am Classic and the Gigantissimo - a giant slalom on Aspen Mountain with an altitude difference of 3,000 feet - with which he raised a large amount of donations for the club and for the racers. With his wife Christin Cooper - one of the most successful ski racers in the first half of the 1980s - he organized ski camps for children from 1985. From 1985 he also worked as a manager for his nephews, surfers Bruce and Andy Irons . In 2006, Taché was inducted into the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame .

successes

World cup

  • 1 place in the top ten

Nor-Am Cup

  • 1979/80 season : 1st overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 1st giant slalom ranking

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the world championships in 1982 ( memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) and 1985 ( memento from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on www.alpineskiing-worldchampionships.com
personal data
SURNAME Taché, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1959