Victor Muffat-Jeandet

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Victor Muffat-Jeandet Alpine skiing
Victor Muffat-Jeandet en 2018.jpg
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 5th March 1989 (age 31)
place of birth Aix-les-Bains , France
Career
discipline Super-G , giant slalom ,
slalom , combination
society CS Val d'Isère
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze Pyeongchang 2018 combination
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
 Individual World Cup debut February 28, 2009
 Individual world cup victories 1
 Overall World Cup 12. ( 2014/15 , 2015/16 )
 Super G World Cup 44th ( 2018/19 )
 Giant Slalom World Cup 5. (2015/16)
 Slalom World Cup 14. (2014/15)
 Combination World Cup 3. (2014/15, 2017/18 )
 Parallel world cup 37th ( 2019/20 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 Giant slalom 0 1 4th
 combination 1 3 1
last change: March 14, 2020

Victor Muffat-Jeandet (born March 5, 1989 in Aix-les-Bains ) is a French ski racer . He is particularly successful in giant slalom and alpine combination . So far he has won a World Cup race and an Olympic bronze medal.

biography

Muffat-Jeandet took part in FIS races and national youth championships from December 2004 . The first start in the European Cup followed in January 2007. In his next European Cup appearances in December 2007, he won the first points. In addition, as tenth in the giant slalom in St. Vigil, he achieved his first top 10 result at this level. From the 2008/09 season Muffat-Jeandet was regularly at the start in the European Cup. After further top 10 placements, he was also used at the Junior World Championships 2009 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , where he just missed the medal ranks as fourth in the slalom and giant slalom. A week before the Junior World Championships, on February 28, 2009, Muffat-Jeandet made his World Cup debut in the giant slalom in Kranjska Gora . From the 2009/10 season onwards he played regularly in the World Cup, but for a long time he could not qualify for the second round in any race.

In addition to the World Cup, Muffat-Jeandet continued to mainly compete in the European Cup. He achieved his first podium finish on February 9, 2010 as third in the Méribel slalom and was among the top ten in the overall and slalom rankings for the first time in the 2010/11 season . He celebrated his first European Cup victory on December 22, 2011 in Madonna di Campiglio . Almost four months later a second place followed in Courmayeur , with which he won the slalom European Cup ranking of the 2011/2012 season . On December 9th, 2012 he won his first World Cup points in the giant slalom of Val-d'Isère , his 25th World Cup race, finishing 29th. The best result in the 2012/13 World Cup season was a 16th place. In mid-March 2013 he suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury at the European Cup final in Sochi , which forced him to take a break for several months.

Despite this setback, Muffat-Jeandet finished in the top ten in the World Cup for the first time on February 2, 2014, when he finished the giant slalom in St. Moritz in seventh place. However, given the strength of the French team, this was not enough to qualify for the Winter Olympics. In the 2014/15 World Cup winter , Muffat-Jeandet was increasingly classified in the top 10. On January 16, 2015, he achieved his first World Cup podium finish with second place in the super combination of Wengen (after the downhill he was still in 28th place). Seventh place a month later in the World Cup giant slalom in Beaver Creek is his best result at World Championships so far. With a second and two third places in the giant slaloms of Beaver Creek , Val-d'Isère and Alta Badia at the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Muffat-Jeandet finally caught up with the world's best in this discipline. With the second place in the super combination of Kitzbühel on January 22nd, 2016 he contributed to the French triple success, behind Alexis Pinturault and in front of Thomas Mermillod Blondin .

In the 2016/17 season , Muffat-Jeandet could not quite build on the performance of the pre-winter and was classified four times in the top ten. In retrospect, he blamed personal problems and poor coordination of his material. After a subdued start to the 2017/18 season , he celebrated his first World Cup victory in the Wengen combination on January 12, 2018 after improving from 27th to first place in the slalom section. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he won the bronze medal in the combination behind Marcel Hirscher and Pinturault, while he finished sixth in the giant slalom and the slalom. Also in the 2018/19 season there was a podium finish when he finished second in the Wengen combination.

successes

Olympic games

World championships

World cup

  • 10 podium places, including 1 victory
date place country discipline
January 12, 2018 Wengen Switzerland combination

World Cup ratings

season total Super G Giant slalom slalom combination Parallel
space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points space Points
2012/13 67. 93 - - 29 52 40. 28 22nd 13 - -
2013/14 55. 124 - - 20th 119 49. 5 - - - -
2014/15 12. 551 - - 7th 261 14th 165 3. 125 - -
2015/16 12. 709 48. 12 5. 405 18th 162 5. 130 - -
2016/17 27. 322 48. 7th 12. 169 27. 88 9. 58 - -
2017/18 14th 458 - - 10. 167 15th 186 3. 105 - -
2018/19 18th 481 44. 13 12. 194 15th 194 5. 80 - -
2019/20 15th 465 58. 1 10. 191 15th 143 6th 124 37. 6th

European Cup

  • Season 2011/12 : 4th overall ranking, 1st slalom ranking
  • Season 2012/13 : 2nd overall ranking, 1st super combination ranking, 5th slalom ranking, 9th giant slalom ranking
  • 2013/14 season : 2nd overall ranking
  • 11 podium places, including 5 wins:
date place country discipline
December 22, 2011 Madonna di Campiglio Italy slalom
January 31, 2013 Sarntal Italy Super combination
2nd / 3rd February 2013 Monte Pora Italy Giant slalom
15th February 2014 Borovets Bulgaria Giant slalom
March 12, 2014 Soldeu Andorra slalom

Junior World Championships

More Achievements

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frenchman Victor Muffat-Jeandet is slowly fighting his way back. skiweltcup.tv, June 27, 2013, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  2. Janka triumphs in Wengen ahead of Muffat-Jeandet and Kostelic - Caviezel is also in the top 10. watson , January 16, 2015, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  3. Alexis Pinturault with the Kitzbühel combination hat trick. Aargauer Zeitung , January 22, 2016, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  4. Cédric Callier: JO 2018: Victor Muffat-Jeandet, la lumière au bout du combiné. Le Figaro , February 13, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2019 (French).
  5. Combination in Wengen: day win for a French, Caviezel missed the podium. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 12, 2018, accessed on February 25, 2019 .