Béatrice Filliol

Béatrice Filliol - Amiez ( born May 12, 1969 in Saint -Jean -de- Maurienne ) is a French former alpine skier, whose strongest discipline was the slalom. The three times French Champion drove in two World Cup races on the podium, stayed with two world championships and Olympic participation but without result. She is married to Sébastien Amiez, who was also a ski racer.

Career

Filliol 1988 French Champion in the downhill and won in 1989 and 1990, the national championships in the slalom. Your first points in the World Cup they won on January 3, 1989, number 15 in slalom in Maribor. Four weeks later she started in Vail in the World Cup 1989 in the combination, but when she was eliminated in the second slalom passage after they had finished the first race in twelfth position. Two years later Filliol came at the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach -Hinterglemm in the combination used, in which she again was eliminated in the second slalom passage in the first run after eighth. In the combination of departure, which was in contrast to 1989 discharged before the slalom, she was ranked 28 Later she took no more part in the World Championships.

In the World Cup Filliol was first driven on January 9, 1990 in seventh place in the slalom in Hinterstoder among the top ten. She could at first but rarely points and reached until three years later, on 10 March 1993, when the Ninth slalom in Vemdalen her second top-10 result. During the next two years, it could become more common place in World Cup slaloms in the top 10, while in Sestriere than each third party also achieved two podium finishes in Altenmarkt and on December 18, 1994 January 9, 1994. The 1993/1994 season they finished 14th and the season 1994/ 1995, 13th place in the slalom World Cup.

In her two Olympic appearances Filliol met the same fate as their World Cup starts. At the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 they first drove in combination exit number 26 and won the next day the first run of the slalom combination before it retired in the second slalom run. In a week later discharged special slalom she fell out in the first round. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, she joined only in slalom and no longer in the combination, but fell as two years before from the first pass. After the 1996/1997 season, in which a 18th place was her best World Cup result, Filliol ended her career.

Achievements

World Cup

• 2 podiums and another 6 placings in the top ten

French Championships

• French Champion in the downhill slalom in 1988 and in 1989 and 1990