William Besse

William Besse ( born March 10, 1968 in Bruson ) is a retired Swiss ski racer. He drove mainly downhill and super -G. With a total of four wins and nine additional podium finishes at the Alpine Skiing World Cup, he was one in the 1990s, to the best downhill racers of Switzerland.

Biography

Besse spent his childhood on his parents' mountain farm in the Bagnes in the Lower Valais. In 1985, he went at his own expense to Las Lenas in Argentina to compete in the summer training. There coach Karl Frehsner became aware of his talent and Besse was allowed henceforth to train with the national team. At the Junior World Cup 1986 in Bad Kleinkirchheim, he won the gold medal in the downhill, what distinguished him the Swiss Sports Aid Foundation as a Swiss student athletes of the year. In the following season, he decided to exit the rating of the European Cup for themselves. In late 1987 he first came in the World Cup to use and took on 9 January 1988 as seventh in the downhill in Val d'Isere first World Cup points.

At the Olympic Winter Games 1988, he was unable to attend due to a broken hand. In 1989, he achieved his best result in Vail at the World Championships, the fifth in the exit ( behind the German surprise winner Hans Jörg exchanger and three other Swiss ). In the 1989/90 season Besse went out two podium finishes, the World Cup Downhill 1991 in Saalbach -Hinterglemm, he finished eighth. Before the Olympic Winter Games in 1992, he could not prevail in the team 's internal qualification. On March 6, 1992, he won but in a panoramic first time a World Cup downhill.

Torrebesses second World Cup victory followed in Val Gardena on the Saslong. The 1993 World Championships in Morioka, however, was disappointing for him ( No. 23 ). In January 1994, he celebrated his most prestigious victory when he won the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen. Again, disappointing, however, ran the 1994 Winter Olympics, when he was only 16, the downhill and was eliminated in the Super -G. The last World Cup victory of his career occurred on 16 March 1994 in Vail. In the following years, Besse could never quite reach his former level of performance and only reached the podium three times.

At the end of the 1998/99 season Besse announced his resignation. Since then, he heads in Verbier ski school and organized race. In addition, he has worked for Télévision Suisse Romande as a consultant. During some months of the year he lives in a secluded log cabin in the Canadian province of Québec. In his spare time he makes wooden sculptures with a chainsaw. Besse is a cousin of Skirennfahrers Justin Murisier.

Achievements

Olympic games

  • Lillehammer 1994: 16 Departure

World Championships

  • Vail 1989: 5th exit
  • Saalbach 1991: 8 Departure
  • Morioka 1993: 23 Departure
  • Sierra Nevada 1996: 13 Downhill, 27 Super -G
  • Sestriere 1997: 13 Downhill, 20 Super -G

Junior World Championships

  • Bad Kleinkirchheim 1986: 1 departure, 35 Giant Slalom

World Cup ratings

  • 1989/90 season: 4 Downhill World Cup, 6th Combined World Cup
  • Season 1990/91: 9 Downhill World Cup
  • Season 1991/92: 7 downhill World Cup
  • 1992/93 Season: 3 Downhill World Cup
  • Season 1993/94: 5 Downhill World Cup
  • Season 1996/ 97: 9 Downhill World Cup

World Cup wins

European Cup

  • Season 1986/87: 1st exit rating, 16 Appreciation

Other successes

  • 4 Swiss Championship (Super -G 1992 departure 1988, 1992 and 1997)

Source

  • World Sports Archives, Edition 33/1994 ( Munzinger archive)
Super-G Alpine skiing combined World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships 1990 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1994 Alpine Skiing World Cup Vail (Colorado) Panorama Mountain Village Morioka, Iwate Alpine skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1989 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1991 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1993 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1997 1991 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1992 Alpine Skiing World Cup 1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup Italy
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