Roger Chappot

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SwitzerlandSwitzerland FranceFrance  Roger Chappot Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 17, 1940
place of birth Martigny , Switzerland
date of death April 7, 2020
Place of death Rennaz , Switzerland
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1956 Chamonix Hockey Club
1956-1960 Genève-Servette HC
1960-1972 Villars HC
1972-1988 Genève-Servette HC

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Roger Chappot (born October 17, 1940 in Martigny ; † April 7, 2020 in Rennaz ) was a French - Swiss ice hockey player who was under contract with Villars HC and Genève-Servette HC in the National League A. His younger brother Maurice was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Born in Valais , Chappot grew up in Chamonix , where he launched his career as an ice hockey player at the Chamonix Hockey Club . He came to ice hockey through his uncle Maurice Clarey , who was president of the club at the time. As a teenager he played in the first team and stormed, among other things, to second place in the French championship.

At the age of 16, Chappot returned to Switzerland to begin an apprenticeship as a painter in Château-d'Oex . He was also on the ice for the Genève-Servette HC . In 1960 he switched to the up-and-coming Villars HC , which had been promoted from the National League B for the 1962/63 season . In fact, Chappot was able to win the Swiss championship title twice in 1963 and 1964 . At Villars, together with Daniel Piller and Bruno Bernasconi, he was part of one of the most powerful lines of the time. In the meantime he played on the same team with his younger brother Maurice . Chappot remained loyal to the Vaudois until 1972 when he returned to his former club in Geneva . There Chappot played six more seasons before ending his career in 1978 at the age of 38.

Even today, Roger Chappot is considered to be one of the most talented stick technicians in Swiss ice hockey history. He was perhaps one of the first Swiss center strikers to play according to the "textbook style" because he played upright and without looking at the target, which was rare for the time.

Roger Chappot died in April 2020 at the age of 79 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Rennaz hospital as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

International

For the Swiss national team, Chappot completed a total of 101 international matches between 1958 and 1972. He made his debut on February 1, 1958 in Lausanne as a 17-year-old against the USA (5-8 defeat). In addition to participating in the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , Chappot was also involved in several world championships. In 1959 , Chappot was on the ice in Bratislava in the 0:23 defeat against Canada . In 1970 he broke his leg at the B World Cup after a collision with the then goalkeeper Gérald Rigolet , and in 1972 at the A World Cup, his wrist. He never played in the same national team with his brother, who was only French national. They even competed against each other several times at world championships, for example in 1962 in Colorado Springs or 1963 in Stockholm .

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Evelyne Emeri: "La légende du hockey Roger Chappot a perdu son dernier match" , Le Matin from April 7, 2020, accessed on April 8, 2020 (fr.)
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Schweizer, Klaus Zaugg: Torriani's heirs . Schwanden Verlag, Kilchberg 1993, p. 48 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Werner Schweizer, Klaus Zaugg: Torriani's heirs . Schwanden Verlag, Kilchberg 1993, p. 49 .
  4. ↑ Ice Hockey Lexicon. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Les fratries en equipe de France. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Chappot, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Swiss ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Martigny
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2020
Place of death Rennaz