Perrine Laffont (born October 28, 1998 in Lavelanet ) is a French freestyle skier . It starts in the moguls disciplines, contained moguls and dual moguls. Her greatest successes to date are two world championship titles, the Moguls Olympic victory in 2018 and the overall World Cup victory in the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons.
Laffont learned to ski at the age of two. As a five-year-old she started skiing on moguls. A year later, the first participation in freestyle competitions followed in the Pyrenees . She also competed in numerous alpine races, but decided in 2012 to concentrate on the mogul slope disciplines, as they liked them better. In the 2012/13 season she started in the European Cup for the first time. She achieved five podium finishes, including two wins, and thus finished seventh in the Mughal standings. At the Junior World Championships 2013 in Chiesa in Valmalenco , she came in fifth place in the Moguls and won the bronze medal in the Dual Moguls.
In the World Cup Laffont debuted on January 4, 2014 in Calgary and won it the 20th place in the moguls. A month later, she finished 14th in the Moguls competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . At the end of the season she finished 9th in Voss and 8th in La Plagne for the first time in the top ten in the World Cup. At the Junior World Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco in 2014, she won the Moguls bronze medal, and she was fourth in the Dual Moguls. In the 2014/15 World Cup season she was twice in the top ten. At the season highlight, the 2015 World Championships on Kreischberg , she won 13th place in the Moguls and 6th place in the Dual Moguls competition. In March 2015 she won the gold medal in the Moguls and in the Dual Moguls at the Junior World Championships in Chiesa in Valmalenco.
In the 2015/16 season , Laffont was in the top ten seven times in eight World Cup appearances. She got her first World Cup victories in the Moguls in Tazawako and in the Dual Moguls in Moscow and reached third place in the Moguls discipline. At the Junior World Championships in Åre in 2016 , she won the gold medal in the Moguls. In the 2016/17 season she won four second places and won her third World Cup victory in the Moguls competition in Thaiwoo . At the 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada , she won the silver medal in the Moguls and the gold medal in the Dual Moguls. She finished the season in second place in the Mughal World Cup.
With two wins and three second places, Laffont won the Moguls discipline in the 2017/18 season . She won the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . Another gold medal in the Dual Moguls was added at the 2019 World Championships , as was the Moguls bronze medal. During the 2018/19 World Cup season, she won four competitions and five more podium places. This was the second time that she won the discipline classification, and she was also the overall winner of the World Cup. She was even more successful in the 2019/20 season : with eight wins (six of them in a row) and a third place, she won the overall and discipline standings.
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