At the beginning of his career Gigandet was used in FIS races and in the European Cup . In the 1987/88 season he decided the European Cup downhill classification for himself. The first World Cup points he got on March 20, 1989, when he finished ninth in the combined classification of Åre . On January 17, 1992, he took third place on the Hahnenkamm run in Kitzbühel ; this was the first of a total of two podium places. Gigandet was regularly among the top ten in the World Cup, but it was never enough to win. At the 1992 Winter Olympics , he was eighth in the combination. He achieved his best World Cup placement on December 16, 1995 when he finished second on the Saslong in Val Gardena .
At the end of the 1997/98 season Gigandet resigned from top-class sport. He turned down Swiss-Ski's offer to work as a junior trainer. Instead, he and his three siblings took over their father's company, a mechanical workshop for agricultural machines.
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