Mélanie Suchet

Melanie Suchet ( born September 1, 1976 in Moutiers ) is a French former alpine skier. She specializes in the speed disciplines of Downhill and Super -G.

Career

Suchet won as a 17 -year-old on December 4, 1993 their first points in the World Cup with tenth place in the exit in Tignes. Your first podium she reached on 29 January 1994 place behind Isolde Kostner at the departure in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. A few days later she was again on the descent in the Sierra Nevada Second, only 0.01 seconds behind Hilary Lindh. In the 1993/94 season they finished third in the downhill World Cup third place. In her first Olympic Games in 1994 in Lillehammer, she was in the Sixth departure. The end of March, she won the gold medal in downhill in the Junior World Championships in 1994 in Lake Placid.

In the following seasons they could deny only a few races due to a knee injury, first in the 1997/98 season they managed again to connect to the world's best. On 23 January 1998 Suchet won their first and only World Cup races, the Super -G in Cortina d' Ampezzo. In addition, there followed a second place in the downhill and a third place in the Super -G. At the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 she missed as fourth in the downhill barely a medal in the Super- G, she was eighth. The following year, she won at the 1999 World Cup in Vail sixth place in the downhill.

Also, due to minor injuries, she could then just place more often in the top ten. At the end of the season 2001/ 02 they still managed a second and a third place in the downhill.

On 3 December 2004, she crashed on the downhill in Lake Louise at the final jump and suffered a tear of the right patellar tendon. Shortly thereafter, she announced her retirement from ski racing.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Lillehammer 1994: 6 downhill, super-G 20
  • Nagano 1998: 4th exit, 8 Super -G
  • Salt Lake City 2002: 10 Super -G, downhill 15

World Championships

  • Vail 1999: 6 exit 16, the Super-G
  • St.Moritz 2003: 14 departure 26.Super -G

Junior World Championships

  • Monte Campione / Colere 1993: 15 combination, 16 Super -G, Giant Slalom 31, 34 Slalom
  • Lake Placid 1994: 1st exit

World Cup

  • Season 1993/94: third Downhill World Cup
  • Season 1997/ 98: 4 Downhill World Cup, 5 Super G World Cup
  • 7 podiums, including one victory:

French Championships

Suchet was four times French Champion:

  • 3x Departure: 2002, 2003 and 2004
  • 1x Super -G: 2003
France World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 1998 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1994 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup Sierra Nevada (Spain) Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics Lake Placid, New York Alpine skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics Nagano, Nagano FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 Vail (Colorado) Lake Louise (Alberta) Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 Italy
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