Franck Piccard
Franck Piccard on a 1989 Uruguayan stamp
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| Born |
17 September 1965 (age 51) Albertville, France |
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| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||
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| Sport | alpine skiing | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Les Saisies | |||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Franck Piccard (born 17 September 1965) is a French former Alpine skier. A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine skiing World Cup races. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the Super-G competition (the first Olympic gold-medal for a French ski racer since 1968, when Jean-Claude Killy became a three-times gold-medalist) and a bronze medal in the downhill. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the downhill. He also could achieve a bronze-medal in the Super-G-Race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships 1991.
Another results in the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships:
After retiring from downhill skiing, Piccard competed in long-distance cross-country skiing at the national level in 2006–2009. In 1988, he was awarded the Prix de la ville de Paris by the French Academy of Sports.
His father gave him the name Franck in tribute to Frank Sinatra.Piccard's siblings Leila Piccard, Ian Piccard and Jeff Piccard also competed as alpine skiers, as does his daughter Lucie. Another brother, Ted Piccard, has competed in both alpine skiing and skiercross.
FIS-ski biography for Franck Piccard
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