Luc Alphand
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| Born |
6 August 1965 Briançon, Hautes-Alpes, France |
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| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | 7 December 1987 (age 22) (first top 15 finish) |
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| Retired | March 1997 (age 31) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | luc-alphand.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Teams | 3 - (1988, 1992, 1994) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Teams | 4 - (1985, 1993, 1996, 1997) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (0 gold) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Seasons | 10 - (1988–97) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 12 - (10 DH, 2 SG) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Podiums | 23 - (18 DH, 5 SG) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 1 - (1997) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 4 - (3 DH, 1 SG) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Participating years | 2001–2009 |
| Teams | Luc Alphand Aventures |
| Best finish | 7th (2006) |
| Class wins | 0 |
Luc Alphand (born 6 August 1965) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from France. He specialized in the speed events and later became a race car driver.
Born in Briançon (Hautes-Alpes), Alphand made his World Cup debut in 1984. In 1997 he won the World Cup overall title by collecting points only in the two speed disciplines, downhill and super G – a unique achievement in World Cup history. For this accomplishment he was voted L'Equipe Champion of Champions in 1997. The previous year he won a bronze medal at the 1996 World Championships at Sierra Nevada, Spain.
In the village of Chantemerle (which neighbours his home town of Briançon in the Serre-Chevalier region) an expert ski run has been named in his honour.
He retired from competitive skiing in 1997 and started a career in auto racing. First in the Nissan Micra Stars Cup (1997–1998), then in the European Le Mans Series (2001), the FIA GT Championship (2002), and the Lamborghini Supertrophy (2002). He won the 2006 Dakar Rally, in which he had finished runner-up a year earlier. With this victory, he was the first ex-skier to win the Paris-Dakar. He recently purchased two Corvette race cars from Pratt & Miller for use in the Le Mans Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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