Thomas Mermillod Blondin

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Thomas Mermillod Blondin Alpine skiing
Thomas Mermillod-Blondin en 2014 à Méribel.jpg
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 3rd January 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Annecy , France
size 176 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
discipline Slalom , giant slalom ,
combination
society SC Le Grand-Bornand
status resigned
End of career February 22, 2019
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut January 6, 2007
 Overall World Cup 28th ( 2013/14 )
 Downhill World Cup 46th ( 2015/16 )
 Super G World Cup 8. (2013/14)
 Giant Slalom World Cup 25th ( 2009/10 )
 Slalom World Cup 22. ( 2012/13 )
 Combination World Cup 2. (2015/16)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Super G 0 1 0
 combination 0 0 5
 

Thomas Mermillod Blondin (born January 3, 1984 in Annecy ) is a former French ski racer . He started mainly in the technical disciplines of slalom and giant slalom as well as a combination . He also temporarily competed in the Super-G . In total, he achieved six World Cup podiums.

biography

Mermillod started skiing when he was three. In 1997 he won the giant slalom of the Trofeo Topolino and the Whistler Cup , and in 1999 the giant slalom of the Trofeo Topolino for a second time. He competed in FIS races from December 1999 and in the winter of 2002/03 he competed in the Ski Europe Cup for the first time . After initially lacking success at this level, he managed a few top 10 placements in winter 2006/07 . He made his World Cup debut on January 6, 2007 in the giant slalom in Adelboden . Exactly one year later, Mermillod, also on the Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden, won World Cup points for the first time. The eleventh place in the giant slalom was his best World Cup result for a long time. In the 2008/09 season he managed a few places in the top 30. Things went better for him in the European Cup, with a win in the Courchevel slalom on January 21, 2009.

Not least thanks to a 20th place in his first World Cup combination, Mermillod qualified for the World Championship in Val-d'Isère ; there he classified himself sixth in the same discipline. He also took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , but did not get past 19th place in the combination. In the 2010/11 season , Mermillod initially suffered mainly from failures, which is why he could not qualify for the World Cup. On February 26, 2011, a week after the end of the World Cup, he drove in the combination of Bansko to third place and thus achieved his first podium finish in a World Cup race. Almost a year later, on February 12, 2012, he was third in the combination of Krasnaya Polyana again on a World Cup podium.

As of the 2011/12 season , Mermillod was increasingly competing in Super G World Cup races in addition to slalom, giant slalom and super combined. On December 1, 2012, he achieved his first top 10 placement in this discipline , finishing ninth in Beaver Creek . In the Hahnenkamm Combination in Kitzbühel , a third place followed at the end of January 2013, but he was unable to confirm this performance at the subsequent World Cup in 2013 in Schladming . Mermillod was also one of the best combiners in the world in the 2013/14 World Cup , but did not finish at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . At the World Cup final in Lenzerheide , Mermillod took second place in the Super-G, which is the only podium in this discipline. Shortly afterwards, he slightly injured his knee during material tests, but surgery was not necessary.

Due to the lack of training, the 2014/15 season was not very successful; in both the World Cup and the 2015 World Cup , Mermillod did not get past ninth place. In the three World Cup combinations of the 2015/16 season, he was classified in combinations twice as third and once as fourth, which meant that he only had to give way to his compatriot Alexis Pinturault in the discipline classification . Due to a torn muscle in his thigh, which he suffered at the training camp in Ushuaia at the end of August 2016 , Mermillod had to pause the entire 2016/17 season. He also missed the first half of the 2017/18 season due to another muscular injury in September 2017. The other results remained well below his possibilities, which is why he contested his last World Cup race on February 22, 2019 in Bansko and retired from top-class sport.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 14 placements among the top ten, including 6 podium places

World Cup ratings

season total Departure Super G Giant slalom slalom combination
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2007/08 113. 24 - - - - 43. 24 - - - -
2008/09 86. 59 - - - - 43. 10 37. 30th 28. 19th
2009/10 69. 99 - - - - 25th 53 44. 17th 29 29
2010/11 61. 125 - - - - 34. 24 44. 21st 11. 80
2011/12 60. 135 - - 62. 1 39. 18th 39. 23 11. 93
2012/13 31. 203 - - 22nd 46 32. 29 38. 32 3. 96
2013/14 28. 283 - - 8th. 160 30th 33 - - 3. 90
2014/15 78. 76 - - 31. 47 - - - - 17th 29
2015/16 40. 246 46. 12 29 52 - - 48. 12 2. 170
2016/17 No results due to injury
2017/18 118. 20th - - - - - - - - 24. 20th
2018/19 120. 20th - - - - - - - - 24. 20th

European Cup

  • 2 podium places, including 1 victory:
date place country discipline
January 21, 2009 Courchevel France slalom

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grange chute, Mermillod-Blondin s'éclate. Eurosport , February 25, 2011, accessed February 23, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ Thomas Mermillod Blondin and his ankle is feeling better again. skiweltcup.tv, September 11, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Mermillod Blondin does not give up yet. skiweltcup.tv, January 5, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Mermillod-Blondin opéré. Le Dauphiné, September 20, 2017, accessed on February 23, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ Thomas Mermillod Blondin says goodbye today. skinews.ch, February 22, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mermillod Blondin, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ski racer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Annecy , France