Pierrick Bourgeat

Pierrick Bourgeat ( born January 28, 1976 in Échirolles ) is a French former alpine skier. His special disciplines were the slalom and the combination. It took until 2009 to 124 World Cup races in part, reached the podium nine times and won three slaloms. From 1997 to 2007 he participated in all World Championships and Olympic Winter Games, where he repeatedly drove in slalom and combined in the top ten and the World Championship in 2005 won a bronze medal in the team competition. After several injuries, he finished his career in 2010.

Biography

Pierrick Bourgeat launched in December 1995 for the first time in the European Cup. Without having achieved greater success there, he played his first World Cup race in January 1996. In his second race, the slalom at Park City on 24 November 1996, he was ranked 26 and took his first World Cup points. Just six weeks later, he was able to take ninth place for the first time in the top ten on 6 January 1997 in the slalom in Kranjska Gora. His first inaugural World Championships in Sestriere in 1997 was inconclusive, he could not finish the first slalom run. The next year, Bourgeat his first podium finish in the World Cup succeeded: January 4, 1998, he drove in the slalom in Kranjska Gora in second place. In February, he took part in the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in part and was ranked 10 in the slalom.

The first World Cup victory, the Frenchman on 22 November 1998 at the slalom in Park City. With a second place on the podium and four other placings in the top ten, he reached in the 1998/1999 season in fourth overall place in the slalom World Cup, equal on points with Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway's. But with the 1999 World Cup in Vail, he had no luck, he already retired in the first slalom passage out.

After Bourgeat due to a knee injury the entire 1999/2000 season had to pause, he could 2000/2001 ride back on top of the world. In Japanese Shigakogen he won both slalom races and finished the season as two years earlier, with the fourth in the slalom standings. At the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton, he reached the tenth place in the slalom. Slightly less successful was the World Cup season 2001/2002. His best result was a fifth place and he fell back to 16th in the slalom World Cup. In his second at the Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002, he could not finish the slalom. At the beginning of the 2002/2003 season, he reached in Park City a second place and finished in the Slalomendwertung ninth. In the 2003 World Cup in Bormio Bourgeat launched for the first time in the combination and reached as best Frenchman in fourth place. In the slalom, it was only enough for 17th position

From the season 2003/2004 Bourgeat was also in the World Cup in the combination at the start, where he could regularly finished in the top ten. In slalom, but the next seasons were less successful, top- 10 finishes were the exception. At the World Championships in Bormio in 2005, he finished in the combination of the eighth and won with the French team in the first-in team competition bronze medal. The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, he finished with an eighth place in the combination and an eleventh place in the slalom.

In the World Cup Bourgeat could again achieve a podium finish after about two and a half years. With third place in the Super Combined at the Reiteralm on 10 December 2006, he was the only time in this discipline on the podium. In his sixth World Championships in Åre 2007 he finished fifth in the nation competition, the super combined and the slalom he could not finish. In July 2007, Bourgeat injured again hard, suffered a broken fibula and was then in the season 2007/2008 not participate in competitions. In the 2008/2009 season he attended only three World Cup races and he only reached once the points.

On 11 November 2009 Bourgeat suffered the next serious injury: He retired in the excretion rides the French team for the World Cup slalom in Levi a broken right tibia to. As a result of his injuries Bourgeat was in September 2010 to withdraw from the ski racing known.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Nagano 1998: 10 Slalom
  • Turin 2006: 8 combination, 11th slalom

World Championships

  • St. Anton 2001: 9 Slalom
  • St. Moritz 2003: 4 combination, 17th slalom
  • Bormio 2005: 3rd team competition, 8 combination
  • Åre 2007: 5 team competition

Junior World Championships

  • Voss 1995: 20 Departure

World Cup

  • 4th place in the Slalom World Cup 1998/99 and 2000/ 01
  • Total: 9 podiums including 3 victories:

European Cup

Nor- Am Cup

  • 2 podiums, including one victory (slalom in Keystone on December 1, 2005)

Other successes

  • French junior champion in slalom in 1995
  • 18 wins in FIS races (17x Slalom, Giant Slalom 1x; from the season 1994 /1995)
France Slalom skiing Alpine skiing combined FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2005 1999 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2001 Alpine Skiing World Cup Winter Olympic Games Park City (Utah) Municipality of Kranjska Gora FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997 Nagano, Nagano FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1999 Vail (Colorado) FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2001 2002 Alpine Skiing World Cup 2003 Alpine Skiing World Cup FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2003 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2007 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup Levi, Finland Keystone (Colorado)
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