Jean-Luc Chrétier ( French: Jean-Luc Crétier , born April 28, 1966 in Albertville ) - French skier, 1998 Olympic downhill champion.
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| Citizenship |  France | |||||||
| Date of Birth | April 28, 1966 (53 years old) | |||||||
| Place of Birth | Albertville , France | |||||||
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| Status | completed his career | |||||||
| End of career | 1999 | |||||||
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| World Cup debut | 1993/1994 | |||||||
| World Cup Victories | 0 | |||||||
| Best position in World Cup | World Cup 1998/1999 , 18th place | |||||||
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Career
French Championships
Professionally involved in skiing since the mid-1980s. He made his debut in alpine skiing competitions in France in 1988. During the years of performing in the home arena, he won victories in the super giant slalom, combination and downhill. In the same year he made his debut at the Olympics in Calgary from the French team. Skier ended his career in 1999 after an injury at the World Cup in Val Gardena .
Championship and World Cup
At the world championships, Jean-Luc spoke three times: in 1991, 1995 and 1997. The best achievement is 11th place in 1991 in the super giant category. He was not so successful in downhill and combination: in Sierra Nevada in 1995 in downhill, he did not even get into the Top 20. At the Alpine skiing World Cups, the Third performed unsuccessfully, although he climbed the podium five times. The best achievement in the overall standings is only 18th in 1999.
At the Olympics
The third performed at four Olympics: in Calgary in 1988, in his native Albertville in 1992, in Lillehammer in 1994 and in Nagano in 1998. He won his only medal (gold) on the downhill in Nagano in 1998 and thus for the first time since 1968 brought France a gold medal in this type of skiing (in 1968, Jean-Claude Killy excelled). Two of his main opponents, Austrian Hermann Meyer and Italian Luca Cattaneo, did not win medals in the downhill: Mayer and Cattaneo took off from the race and received serious injuries that prevented them from continuing the race. The Third was also close to winning the award in his native Albertville in 1994, but he lost the bronze medal to the Canadian Edu Podivinski.
Full statistics
Olympics
| Location | Calgary 1988 | Albertville 1992 | Lillehammer 1994 | Nagano 1998 |
| Downhill | - | - | 24th place | 1st place |
| Super giant | - | 24th place | - | 25th place |
| Combination | 6th place | 4th place | - | - |
World Championships
| Location | Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991 | Sierra Nevada 1996 | Sestriere 1997 |
| Downhill | - | 35th place | 15th place |
| Super giant | 11th place | - | - |
| Combination | - | 16th place | 13th place |
World Cups
- Best Final Achievement: 18th in the 1998/1999 World Cup .
- 2nd place in qualification in 1997/1998
- No victories
- 5 times climbed on a pedestal
- 2nd place (downhill) - 1997/98 ( Beaver Creek)
- 2nd place (downhill) - 1997/98 ( Wengen)
- 2nd place (downhill) - 1993/94 ( Chamonix-les-Houches)
- 3rd place (downhill) - 1993/94 ( Val Gardena)
- 3rd place (downhill) - 1997/98 ( Kitzbühel)
French Championships
- Champion of France 1988/1989 (super giant)
- Champion of France 1990/1991 (combination and downhill)
- Champion of France 1992/1993 (combination and downhill), French vice champion 1992/1993 (super giant)
- Vice-champion of France 1994 (downhill and super giant)
Out of Career
He participated in the Fort Boyard show in 1996, and won with a team 76,660 francs. Now she works as a radio host at the Monte Carlo radio station.
Links
- Jean-Luc Third - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com