Didier Cuche

Didier Cuche
Cuche in February 2011
Full name	Didier Cuche
Born	(1974-08-16) 16 August 1974 (age 42) Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Ski club	Chasseral Dombresson
World Cup career
Seasons	1993–2012
Individual wins	22
Indiv. podiums	67
Medal record Men's alpine skiing Representing   Switzerland Olympic Games 1998 Nagano Super-G World Championships 2009 Val-d'Isère Super-G 2009 Val-d'Isère Downhill 2011 Garmisch Downhill 2007 Åre Giant slalom
Updated on 25 February 2012.

Didier Cuche (born 16 August 1974) is former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.

Born in Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, he competed in the downhill and super-G, along with the giant slalom. He won the World Cup downhill and super-G title for the 2011 season and has won three previous downhill titles in 2010, 2008 and 2007, along with a giant slalom title in 2009. Cuche has 21 World Cup race victories, along with 67 podiums (top three) and 181 top ten finishes. He is also an Olympic silver medalist and has won a total of four World Championships medals (a gold, two silvers, and a bronze). He retired from competition following the 2012 season.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Cuche was the silver medalist in the super-G, where he had exactly the same time as Hans Knauss resulting in a rare sharing of the medal (no bronze medal was awarded).

Cuche switched from Atomic to Head skis following the 2006 season, joining Bode Miller and Hermann Maier.

During the 2007 season, Cuche was in top form, winning the downhill season title with a victory and four-second place finishes. In the Bormio downhill on 28 December 2006 he finished second, 0.01 seconds behind winner Michael Walchhofer, the smallest measurable amount in ski racing.