Willy Favre

Willy Favre
nation	Switzerland
birthday	September 24, 1943
place of birth	Les Diablerets , Switzerland
date of death	December 19, 1986
Career
discipline	Giant slalom
End of career	1968
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver Grenoble 1968 Giant slalom  Alpine World Ski Championships silver Grenoble 1968 Giant slalom
Placements in the Alpine Ski World Cup
Individual World Cup debut 1967  Overall World Cup 20th ( 1967 )  Giant Slalom World Cup 9. (1967, 1968 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Giant slalom 0 1 0

Willy Favre (born September 24, 1943 in Les Diablerets , † December 19, 1986 ) was a Swiss ski racer .

His greatest success was winning the giant slalom silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble . Four years earlier he was fourth in giant slalom and combined at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck .

In the Ski World Cup 1966 in Chile Portillo he reached 5th place in the combination and 6th place in the giant slalom. Favre's best result in the Ski World Cup , which has been held since 1967, is a second place, achieved on January 9, 1967 at the giant slalom in Adelboden . In the same year he became Swiss champion in combination.

Web links

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