Odile Chalvin

Odile Chalvin
nation	France
birthday	2nd October 1953 (age 66)
place of birth	Le Bourg-d'Oisans , France
Career
discipline	Slalom , giant slalom
status	resigned
End of career	1975
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Overall World Cup 26. ( 1972/73 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 25. (1971/72)  Slalom World Cup 13. ( 1974/75 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 0 1 0

Odile Chalvin (born October 2, 1953 in Le Bourg-d'Oisans ) is a former French ski racer . She competed in the technical disciplines of the World Cup and was particularly successful in slalom .

biography

Chalvin was a member of the French national ski team in the first half of the 1970s. She scored her first points in a World Cup race as an 18-year-old on January 29, 1971, finishing ninth in the slalom in Saint-Gervais-les-Bains . The following winter she finished four times in the points. She achieved the best result of her career at the start of the 1972/73 season , when she finished second behind the German Pamela Behr in the Val-d'Isère slalom . It was the only podium finish in her career. In 1975 she resigned from top-class sport.

successes

• 10 placements among the top ten in the World Cup, including one podium
• French champion in giant slalom and combined in 1974

Web links

• Odile Chalvin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Odile Chalvin in the database of Ski-DB (English)