Cavagnoud won eight World Cup races and was French champion seven times . The downhill victory on January 21, 1999 in Cortina d'Ampezzo was the first victory in this discipline for the French women since Caroline Attia on December 15, 1982 in San Sicario. Her greatest successes were winning the Super-G World Championship in 2001 and the Super-G World Cup in the same year .
On October 27, 2001, at the start of the 2001/02 season , she finished third on the podium at the giant slalom in Sölden . Two days later, on October 29, 2001, during the joint downhill training of German and French ski racers on the Pitztal Glacier in Austria , she collided with the seriously injured young German trainer Markus Anwander . According to the police report, Régine Cavagnoud and Anwander collided with their heads head-on and fell about 100 meters over a steep slope. Régine Cavagnoud died two days later in Innsbruck University Hospital.
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