Julien Lizeroux

Julien Lizeroux ( born September 5, 1979 in Moutiers, Savoie ) is a French alpine skier. He is a member since 1998 of the French national ski team, in 2009 Vice World Champion in slalom and super combined, previously won three World Cup races and was three times French Champion.

Career

Lizeroux was born the son of a mountain guide and ski instructor in a French alpine region of Savoie. Age of seven he became a member of the Sport Club from La Plagne and attended from the age of 15 years, the Skigymnasium in Albertville, where he graduated with the Abitur.

From December 1994 Lizeroux regularly participated in FIS races, in January 1997, he went for the first time in the European Cup at the start. First major successes came in the 1997/98 season, when he won the bronze medal at the Junior World Cup in Megeve in the combination and at the French Junior Championships title in the slalom and won runner-up in the Super -G. After his leap into the French national ski team, he was in the 1999/2000 season French champion in the combination and Vice Champion in slalom. In the slalom standings of the European Cup he ranked at the end of the season in seventh place.

On January 23, 2000 in Kitzbuehel Lizeroux played his first World Cup race. In the slalom in Madonna di Campiglio on 19 December 2000, he took 15th place with his first World Cup points, in February 2001, he took St. Anton am Arlberg for the first time at a World Cup finals. A severe knee injury he incurred at the World Cup race in Aspen in November 2001, forcing him to one year's interruption of his career.

His return to the World Cup was difficult. In none of the race of the season 2002 /03 Lizeroux could qualify for the second round. At the end of the season he suffered at the French Championships, a fracture of the lateral malleolus. After his recovery, the 2003/04 season was mixed. In the World Cup he always missed qualifying for the final round, in the European Cup reach him only three placings in the top 30 was not until the 2004/05 season he was able in the European Cup back to his earlier successes to tie.

In January 2005, Lizeroux again pulled at the World Cup race in Chamonix for an injury which meant an early end of the season. With good performances in the European Cup ( two wins and a second place in the slalom rating of the season 2006/ 07 ), he fought his way back into the French World Cup team. In the 2007 /08 season, the Frenchman was established in the world rankings. He he drove in ten out of eleven World Cup Slalom is the fastest ten and reached its best result a fourth place in Kitzbuehel on January 20, 2008. 's Super Combined, he also scored two top-10 results in the Slalom World Cup he finished sixth. After over a dozen placements in the top ten Julien Lizeroux celebrated on January 25, 2009 at Ganslernhang his first victory in Kitzbuehel. Five weeks later, he stood in the slalom of Vitranc Cup in Kranjska Gora again to square one. In the slalom World Cup he could improve on third place in the 2008/ 09 season.

At the 2009 World Championships in Val d'Isere Lizeroux won the silver medal in the super combined and the slalom. Without medal he remained at the Olympic Winter Games 2010, here was his best result of ninth place in the slalom. With a win at Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden, a second place and two third places he had only just beaten the Austrians Reinfried fall in the slalom World Cup of the season 2009/10. He also came first in the overall World Cup in the top ten. The 2010/11 season had to end in late January Lizeroux because of persistent pain in his left knee. After an initial surgery in February and another in June of that year he was sidelined the entire 2011/12 season.

After he had missed because of various complications and the 2012/13 season, he was on 17 November in the slalom of Levi his comeback and went there on the 17th Place.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Vancouver 2010: 9 Slalom, Super Combined 18 26 Departure
  • Sochi 2014: 15 Slalom

World Championships

  • St. Anton 2001: 25 Slalom
  • Åre 2007: 14 Slalom
  • Val d'Isere 2009: 2 Super Combined, 2 Slalom

World Cup

  • Season 2007/ 08: 6 Slalom World Cup
  • Season 2008/ 09: 3rd slalom World Cup, 7th Combined World Cup
  • Season 2009/ 10: 9 Overall World Cup, 2nd Slalom World Cup, 10th Combined World Cup
  • 9 podiums including 3 victories:

European Cup

  • Season 2006/ 07: 11th overall, 2nd slalom rating
  • Season 2013/14: 5 slalom rating
  • 9 podiums including 3 victories:

Junior World Championships

  • Megève 1998: 3 combination, slalom 10, 17 downhill, giant slalom 33
  • Pra Loup 1999: 8 Slalom, Giant Slalom 20

Other successes

  • Triple French Champion combination 2000
  • Slalom and Slalom Indoor 2008
France Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 2010 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup Super-G FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 Aspen (Colorado) 2008 Alpine Skiing World Cup Municipality of Kranjska Gora Reinfried Herbst 2011 Alpine Skiing World Cup Levi, Finland Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 Salla Finland Donnersbachwald
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