Renée Colliard

Renée Colliard
Full name	Renée Feraud (after marriage)
nation	Switzerland
birthday	24th December 1933 (age 86)
place of birth	Geneva , Switzerland
job	pharmacist
Career
discipline	slalom
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 slalom
last change: February 28, 2017

Renée Colliard , after her marriage Renée Feraud (born December 24, 1933 in Geneva ) is a former Swiss ski racer . She became an Olympic champion in slalom in 1956 .

Colliard was a pharmacy student at the University of Geneva and was a member of the Swiss women's ski club . Only shortly before the start of the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo was she able to qualify for the Swiss Olympic team with a second place in the slalom of the SDS race in Grindelwald . She then achieved a sensation in the Olympic slalom: With start number 1, she duped her competitors, completed both rounds with the best time and in the end became Olympic champion with a lead of over three seconds. In the same year she became Swiss champion in slalom. On February 3, the first competition of the 1958 World Cup, the slalom, fell and suffered serious injuries, so that she was out of action for the next races; she suffered a strained ligament in her left ankle and a collateral ligament in her left knee.

After completing her pharmacy studies, she married in Geneva in 1960 and took her husband's family name. Two years later she moved to the winter sports resort of Montana and opened a pharmacy there .

Web links

• Renée Colliard in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Renée Colliard in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Renée Colliard in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Filmed interview of Renée Colliard recorded by TSR in 1968 (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Josl Rieder and Inger Björnbakken world champions - column 4, penultimate paragraph . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1958, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Colliard out of action? In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1958, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).