Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau
Pierre -Alexandre Rousseau ( born October 6, 1979 in Drummondville, Quebec ) is a Canadian freestyle skier. He specializes in the moguls and dual moguls mogul disciplines. In 2007 he was World Champion mogul.
Biography
His debut in the World Cup had Rousseau on 9 January 1997 at Mont Tremblant, where he was 32 . The first World Cup points, he won two weeks later than 14th in Breckenridge. On January 16, 1999, he scored a second in dual moguls competition in Steamboat Springs, the first podium finish. Two months later, he first participated at the World Championships. In the World Cup season 1999/2000 Rousseau scored two more podium finishes in the 2000 /01 season he was on the podium three times. At the 2001 World Championships in Whistler, he won behind the Finn Mikko Ronkainen the silver medal in the moguls competition.
In January 2002, Rousseau crashed in heavy training before the World Cup competition in Saint- Lary -Soulan and retired doing a cervical injury. In an operation two cervical vertebrae had to be interconnected. In December 2002, Rousseau returned after several months of therapy, back in the World Cup and drove in Tignes immediately to fifth place. On January 11, 2003, he was at the Mont Tremblant scored the first World Cup victory. Another win followed five weeks later. In total, he scored six podium finishes in the 2002/03 season. In the 2003 /04 season resulted in two more podiums, in winter 2004 /05 was a fifth place his best result.
Since he only mediocre performance was the beginning of winter 2005/ 06, Rousseau could not qualify for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games; a podium, he managed until the end of the season. In the 2006/07 season he scored two podium finishes in the World Cup. At the 2007 World Championships in Madonna di Campiglio, he celebrated the biggest success of his career when he won the gold medal in the moguls competition. To kick off the World Cup season 2007/ 08 Rousseau won in Tignes, otherwise his performances were inconstant in this winter. Took a similar season 2008/ 09: After winning the first World Cup competition in Méribel in turn followed give inconsistent results.
Rousseau qualified for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. He went there to fifth place, which was also his best result this season. In the season 2010/11 he binned twice on the podium.
Achievements
Olympic games
- Vancouver 2010: 5 Moguls
World Championships
- Hasliberg 1999: 17 Moguls
- Whistler 2001: 2 Moguls, Dual Moguls 9
- Deer Valley 2003: 8 Dual Moguls, Moguls 32
- Ruka 2005: 7 Moguls, Dual Moguls 7
- Madonna di Campiglio, 2007: 1 Moguls, Dual Moguls 9
- Inawashiro 2009: 17 Moguls
- Deer Valley 2011: 10 Moguls, Dual Moguls 29
Junior World Championships
- Krasnoe Ozero 2006: 1 Moguls, Dual Moguls 15
- Airolo 2007: 1 Moguls, Dual Moguls 2
World Cup ratings
- Season 1997/ 98: 7 Dual Mogul World Cup
- Season 1998/99: 5 Dual Mogul World Cup
- Season 1999/ 00: 7 Overall World Cup, 3rd World Cup Moguls, Dual Moguls 9 World Cup
- Season 2000/ 01: 6 Overall World Cup, 3rd World Cup Moguls
- Season 2002/ 03: 2 Moguls World Cup, 4 dual moguls World Cup
- Season 2003/ 04: 6 Moguls World Cup
- Season 2006/ 07: 3 Dual Mogul World Cup, fifth Mogul
- Season 2007/ 08: 7 - Mogul World Cup
- Season 2008/ 09: 4 - Mogul World Cup
- Season 2010/ 11: 7 - Mogul World Cup
World Cup wins
Rousseau scored 23 podiums so far, including 4 victories: