Perrine Pelen

Perrine Pelen

nation

France

birthday

3rd July 1960 (age 60)

place of birth

Boulogne-Billancourt , France

Career

discipline

Giant slalom , slalom ,
combination

status

resigned

End of career

1986

Medal table

Olympic games	0 ×	1 ×	2 ×
World championships	1 ×	1 ×	1 ×

winter Olympics
bronze	Lake Placid 1980	Giant slalom
silver	Sarajevo 1984	slalom
bronze	Sarajevo 1984	Giant slalom
Alpine World Ski Championships
bronze	Lake Placid 1980	Giant slalom
silver	Schladming 1982	combination
gold	Bormio 1985	slalom

Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup

Individual world cup victories	15th
Overall World Cup	4. ( 1979/80 )
Giant Slalom World Cup	2. ( 1979/80 )
Slalom World Cup	1. (1979/80)
Combination World Cup	8. ( 1980/81 )

Podium placements	1.	2.	3.
Giant slalom	0	6th	1
slalom	15th	12	9

Perrine Pelen (born July 3, 1960 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a former French ski racer . She was one of the most successful female athletes from the late 1970s to the first half of the 1980s. Her specialty disciplines were slalom and giant slalom , but she was also successful in the combined ratings.

biography

She won five medals in major title competitions. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Lake Placid , she won the bronze medal in giant slalom behind Hanni Wenzel and Irene Epple (with a hundredth of a second ahead of her teammate Fabienne Serrat ). Four years later in Sarajevo she was second behind Paoletta Magoni in the slalom; in the giant slalom she came third behind the Americans Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper .

She was also successful at the World Ski Championships: after finishing 4th in the slalom in 1978 at Gudiberg in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1978, she was runner-up in 1982 in Schladming behind Erika Hess in combination. Could their greatest success in Santa Caterina in the World Ski Championships in 1985 from Bormio celebrate with the world champion title in slalom.

In the Ski World Cup , Pelen won fifteen world cup races between 1977 and 1984, all of them slaloms. Their most successful season was 1979/80 with four wins; this was enough to win the slalom world cup. From 1979 to the end of her career in 1986 she was French champion ten times , seven times in slalom and three times in giant slalom. In the World Series of Skiing , which is only part of the Nations Cup , she was second in the slalom of Aprica on November 30, 1976, while she won the giant slalom in San Sicario on December 1, 1977.

successes

Olympic games

Lake Placid 1980 : 3rd giant slalom (also counted as World Cup)
Sarajevo 1984 : 2nd slalom, 3rd giant slalom

World championships

Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1978 : 4th slalom, 8th giant slalom
Schladming 1982 : 2nd combination
Bormio 1985 : 1st slalom

World Cup ratings

Perrine Pelen once won the slalom discipline.

season	total		Giant slalom		slalom		combination
season	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points
1976/77	7th	132	12.	23	2.	98	-	-
1977/78	6th	96	11.	25th	2.	105	-	-
1978/79	9.	100	13.	32	4th	82	-	-
1979/80	4th	192	2.	95	1.	120	14th	12
1980/81	6th	176	9.	60	3.	81	8th.	35
1981/82	8th.	125	6th	48	5.	67	14th	10
1982/83	16.	69	16.	24	11.	45	-	-
1983/84	10.	122	9.	51	3.	90	-	-
1984/85	12.	106	19th	29	3.	89	-	-
1985/86	13.	117	12.	30th	3.	77	22nd	10

World Cup victories

In total, Pelen achieved 43 podiums, including 15 wins:

date	place	country	discipline
January 26, 1977	Crans-Montana	Switzerland	slalom
January 28, 1977	Saint-Gervais	France	slalom
March 5th 1977	Sun Valley	United States	slalom
December 10, 1977	Cervinia	Italy	slalom
February 8, 1977	Saint-Gervais	France	slalom
March 5th 1978	Stratton Mountain	United States	slalom
March 18, 1979	Furano	Japan	slalom
January 9, 1980	Berchtesgaden	Germany	slalom
January 25, 1980	Saint-Gervais	France	slalom
February 29, 1980	Waterville Valley	United States	slalom
March 8, 1980	Vysoké Tatry	Slovakia	slalom
December 18, 1980	Altenmarkt	Austria	slalom
December 21, 1980	Bormio	Italy	slalom
January 14, 1984	Bad Gastein	Austria	slalom
1st December 1984	Courmayeur	Italy	slalom

Web links

Perrine Pelen in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
Perrine Pelen in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Perrine Pelen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Only Sölkner escaped debacle. Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 1, 1976, accessed March 17, 2015 .
↑ Lots of stones, little snow. Arbeiter-Zeitung, December 2, 1977, accessed March 17, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Pelen, Perrine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd July 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boulogne-Billancourt , France

[1] Only Sölkner escaped debacle. Arbeiter-Zeitung , December 1, 1976, accessed March 17, 2015 .

[2] Lots of stones, little snow. Arbeiter-Zeitung, December 2, 1977, accessed March 17, 2015 .