Thomas Fogdö

Thomas Fogdö
nation	Sweden
birthday	14th March 1970 (age 50)
place of birth	Gällivare , Sweden
Career
discipline	slalom
status	resigned
End of career	1995
Medal table
Junior World Championship 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Alpine Ski Junior World Championships silver Madonna di Campiglio 1988 slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual world cup victories 5  Overall World Cup 9. ( 1992/93 )  Slalom World Cup 1. ( 1992/93 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  slalom 5 7th 4th

Thomas Fogdö (born March 14, 1970 in Gällivare ) is a former Swedish ski racer .

biography

He won a total of five World Cup slalom races . In the 1992/93 season he was able to win the Slalom World Cup. He is the only Swede besides Ingemar Stenmark and André Myhrer who managed this feat. At world championships and the Olympic Games, he reached three times fifth and once sixth place, always in his specialty slalom.

On February 7, 1995, he fell so badly during a training run in Åre that he broke his spine and has been paraplegic ever since . Today he works for various sponsorship projects as well as for the Swedish Ski Association.

successes

Olympic games

• Albertville 1992 : 5th slalom
• Lillehammer 1994 : 5th slalom

World championships

• Saalbach 1991 : 5th slalom
• Morioka 1993 : 6th slalom, 29th giant slalom

World Cup ratings

Thomas Fogdö once won the slalom discipline.

season	total		slalom
	space	Points	space	Points
1990/91	10.	95	4th	95
1991/92	45.	196	14th	196
1992/93	9.	545	1.	545
1993/94	24.	352	5.	352
1994/95	30th	269	9.	269

World Cup victories

date	place	country	discipline
March 23, 1991	Waterville Valley	United States	slalom
December 6, 1992	Val d'Isère	France	slalom
December 19, 1992	Kranjska Gora	Slovenia	slalom
17th January 1993	Lech	Austria	slalom
March 28, 1993	Are	Sweden	slalom

Junior World Championships

• Madonna di Campiglio 1988 : 2nd slalom, 53rd giant slalom
• Aleyska 1989 : 32nd Super-G

Web links

• Thomas Fogdö in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Thomas Fogdö in the database of Ski-DB (English)
• Thomas Fogdö in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )