Gilles Roulin
Gilles Roulin 
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 Switzerland
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| birthday | 14th May 1994 (age 26) | ||||||||||
| place of birth | Grüningen , Switzerland | ||||||||||
| size | 183 cm | ||||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg | ||||||||||
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| discipline |
Downhill , Super-G , giant slalom , combination |
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| society | SC Lenzerheide-Valbella | ||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||
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| last change: March 15, 2020 | |||||||||||
Gilles Roulin (born May 14, 1994 in Grüningen ) is a Swiss ski racer . He is a member of the Swiss-Ski A-team and is particularly successful in the Downhill and Super-G disciplines .
biography
Roulin comes from Grüningen in the canton of Zurich . He learned to ski at the age of two and a half in Lenzerheide , where his parents owned a holiday home. At times he was more interested in snowboarding and football . In the winter of 2005 he drove for a day with Bruno Kernen as part of a sponsorship event , who then encouraged him to join a ski club. From 2009 to 2014 he attended the Stams ski school , from which he graduated with the Matura .
As a 15-year-old, Roulin began participating in FIS races in January 2010 . Notable successes at the international level were initially largely absent in the following years. Increasingly he began to concentrate on the fast disciplines. In January 2014 he made his first appearance in the European Cup , in the same month he became Swiss junior downhill champion. A year later, in February 2015, Roulin won an FIS race for the first time. In the 2015/16 season he established himself in the European Cup and regularly drove into the points, with a 14th place being his best result.
Roulin achieved a significant increase in performance in the 2016/17 European Cup season . He achieved his first podium on January 6, 2017, when he was third on the Wengen descent . Ten days later he won the first ever European Cup downhill run on the (shortened) Streif in Kitzbühel . Two more victories followed in Méribel at the end of January . On February 2, 2017, he won three European Cup races on the same day in Hinterstoder : one descent in the morning, a combination (consisting of this descent and a slalom run the day before) and a second descent in the afternoon. As a result, his victory in the downhill discipline classification was already certain. Four races before the end of the season, he also won the overall standings and the Super-G standings.
Roulin made his debut in the World Cup on February 24, 2017 in the downhill from Kvitfjell , which he finished in 37th place. Two days later he won the first World Cup points in the same place with 25th place in the Super-G. Despite the double burden - he also studies law by distance learning - he was able to establish himself close to the top in his first full World Cup season. In his fifth World Cup race, the Lake Louise descent on November 25, 2017, he finished twelfth. Three weeks later he surprised with fourth place in the downhill on the Saslong in Val Gardena , where he narrowly missed the podium.
successes
Olympic games
- Pyeongchang 2018 : 21st Super-G, 33rd Downhill
World championships
- Åre 2019 : 36th departure
World cup
- 2 placements among the top ten
World Cup ratings
| season | total | Departure | Super G | combination | ||||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2016/17 | 147. | 6th | - | - | 49. | 6th | - | - |
| 2017/18 | 42. | 173 | 19th | 109 | 22nd | 60 | 37. | 4th |
| 2018/19 | 71. | 85 | 25th | 54 | 36. | 26th | 38. | 5 |
| 2019/20 | 80. | 77 | 44. | 19th | 31. | 27 | 21st | 31 |
European Cup
- Season 2016/17 : 1st overall ranking, 1st downhill ranking, 1st Super-G ranking, 3rd combined ranking
- 8 podium places, including 7 wins:
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| January 16, 2017 | Kitzbühel | Austria | Departure |
| 23rd January 2017 | Meribel | France | Super G |
| January 27, 2017 | Meribel | France | Departure |
| 1st February 2017 | Hinterstoder | Austria | combination |
| 2nd February 2017 | Hinterstoder | Austria | Departure |
| 2nd February 2017 | Hinterstoder | Austria | Departure |
| 3rd February 2017 | Hinterstoder | Austria | Super G |
Junior World Championships
- Hafjell 2015 : 9th Super-G, 26th giant slalom, 27th downhill
More Achievements
- 1 Swiss championship title (Super-G 2019 )
- 7 victories in FIS races
- 1 Swiss junior championship title (downhill 2015)
Web links
- Gilles Roulin's website
- Gilles Roulin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Gilles Roulin in the database of Ski-DB (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bertrand Monnard: Gilles Roulin, la tête et les jambes à la perfection ( French ) lematin.ch. December 27, 2017. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ↑ a b Gilles Roulin: Random racing driver with star potential. Luzerner Zeitung , December 15, 2017, archived from the original on December 17, 2017 ; accessed on December 16, 2017 .
- ↑ About me. (No longer available online.) Gilles Roulin's website, 2016, archived from the original on February 2, 2017 ; accessed on February 2, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gilles Roulin: "... and then you get shaky knees". skionline.ch, January 16, 2017, accessed on February 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Gilles Roulin in top form - three wins in one day. skionline.ch, February 2, 2017, archived from the original on February 3, 2017 ; accessed on February 2, 2017 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Roulin, Gilles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss ski racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1994 |