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Laura Gauché
Laura Gauché (born 4 March 1995 in Moûtiers) is a French FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of Downhill (ski competition), downhill and super-G. She made her World Cup debut in January 2013–14 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, 2014 and has competed in two Alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics and two FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, World Championships. Career At the Winter Olympics in Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics, 2018, Gauché finished 22nd in the Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's downhill, downhill and twelfth in the Alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's combined, combined. Her first World Cup podium came in February 2022–23 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, 2023 in a downhill at Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Personal life Born in Moûtiers, Savoie, Gauché was a student at Middle School Saint Exupery in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France, and attended Hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise
Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise () is a Communes of France, commune in the Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region in south-eastern France. Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise is a village in the Tarentaise Valley in Savoie, France. The old village lies on the main road between Bourg-Saint-Maurice and Val-d'Isère. About 4 km above the village (turning left at La Thuile, Savoie, La Thuile) is the ski resort of Sainte Foy (referred as Sainte Foy Station). Ski resort The resort was built in an old farming hamlet, some of which survives as chalet accommodation. Most of the village has been built recently, but in a vernacular style. There are two spas in the resort, ski shops, 4 bars, 7 restaurants and 2 small supermarkets. The mountain The mountain's highest point is the Col de l'Aiguille at 2620 m, with a vertical drop of just over 1000 m. There are around 20 pistes, four chairlifts, one Green and one Blue-grade trail, various Red runs and one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpine Skiing At The 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's Combined
The women's combined competition of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympics was held on 22 February 2018 at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre and the Yongpyong Alpine Centre at the Alpensia Sports Park in PyeongChang. Qualification A total of up to 320 alpine skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard only, which meant having 140 or less FIS Points and being ranked in the top 500 in the Olympic FIS points list. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Athletes were also required to have 80 or less FIS points in the downhill. Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the 2017–18 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup The International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski World Cup was the premier circuit for alpine skiing competition. The inaugural season launched in January 1967, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Combined
The Women's Combined in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved three events, first a super-combined (downhill and one run of slalom), and then two Alpine combined (a Super-G and one run of slalom). Downhill champion Ilka Štuhec of Slovenia won the super-combined and held on to win the season championship. Interestingly, in only her second race in the combined discipline ever, overall World Cup champion Mikaela Shiffrin won the final race. The season was interrupted by the 2017 World Ski Championships, which were held from 6–20 February in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The women's combined was held on 10 February. At this time, combined races were not included in the season finals, which were held in 2017 in Aspen, Colorado (USA). Standings * * * *DNF1 = Did Not Finish run 1 *DNF2 = Did Not Finish run 2 *DNS = Did Not Start *DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1 *DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2 * See also * 2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings * 2017 Alpine Skiing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Downhill
The women's downhill in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved eight events, including the season finale in Aspen, Colorado (USA). Defending champion (and eight-time discipline champion) Lindsey Vonn of the USA was injured during the first half of the season, leaving the championship race wide open. However, Slovenian skier Ilka Štuhec won the first three downhills of the season and ended up carrying a 97-point lead into the finals, meaning that all she needed was either to finish in the top 15 herself or for rising Italian skier Sofia Goggia, who was in second, not to win. As it turned out, Štuhec won the final herself, clinching the discipline title. The season was interrupted by the 2017 World Ski Championships, which were held from 6–20 February in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The women's downhill was held on 12 February. Standings * * * *DNF = Did Not Finish *DNS = Did Not Start * See also * 2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings * 2017 Alpi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Super-G
The women's super-G in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved seven events, including the season final in Aspen, Colorado (USA). Defending discipline (and overall) champion Lara Gut from Switzerland got off to a great start by winning the first three races, but she suffered a season-ending injury in early February, which led to a tight battle between the two top contenders remaining: Slovenia's Ilka Štuhec and Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather. With just the season finals in Aspen remaining, Štuhec, who had won two races in the discipline and won the season title in the downhill the day before the race, held a 15-point lead over Weirather, but Weirather nipped Štuhec by 0.35 seconds in the finals, giving her the season title by 5 points. Weirather thus became a second-generation World Cup discipline champion, as her father Harti Weirather was World Cup downhill discipline champion in 1981 and her mother Hanni Wenzel won the overall World Cup championship twice (1978, '8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Giant Slalom
The women's giant slalom in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of nine events, including the World Cup finals in Aspen, Colorado (USA). Tessa Worley of France had never won a season-long championship in the World Cup but this season had reached the giant slalom podium seven times, including three wins, and held an 80-point lead over runner-up Mikaela Shiffrin of the US in the standings before the finals. In the finals, Worley finished fifth (one spot ahead of Shiffrin) and became a first-time discipline champion. The season was interrupted by the 2017 World Ski Championships, which were held from 6–20 February in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The women's giant slalom was held on 16 February. Standings * * * *DNF1 = Did not finish run 1 *DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1 *DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2 *DNF2 = Did not finish run 2 *DSQ2 = Disqualified run 2 *DNS = Did not start * See also * 2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's summary rankings * 2017 Alpine Skiing World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Slalom
The women's slalom in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 10 events, including one parallel slalom (a city event, which only allows for 16 competitors) and the season finale in Aspen, Colorado (USA). Defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin from the United States won seven of the ten races for the season, podiumed in two more, and clinched the discipline title before the finals -- ultimately winning the season championship by over 250 points; this was Shiffrin's fourth discipline championship in slalom. Her win enabled Shiffrin to equal the record set by the great 1970s Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark of winning four World Cup slalom season titles before the age of 22. The season was interrupted by the 2017 World Ski Championships, which were held from 6–20 February in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The women's slalom was held on 18 February. Standings * * * *DNF1 = Did Not Finish run 1 *DSQ1 = Disqualified run 1 *DNQ = Did not qualify for run 2 *DNF2 = Did Not Finish ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Alpine Skiing World Cup – Women's Overall
The women's overall in the 2017 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup involved 37 events in 5 disciplines: downhill (DH), Super-G (SG), giant slalom (GS), slalom (SL) hich included one city event and Alpine combined (AC) hich included one super-combined A city event is a slalom conducted on a two-lane artificial ramp erected in a city; a super-combined consists of a downhill followed by a one-run slalom, as opposed to an Alpine combined, which consist of a Super-G followed by a one-run slalom. Injuries affected several of the former overall champions at the start of the season. Two-time champion Anna Veith (née Fenninger) (2014- 15) and four-time champion Lindsey Vonn (2008- 09- 10, '12) both missed the first half of the season due to injuries suffered during the previous season. Veith also missed the end of the season to recover further from her injuries. In addition, after a great start to the season, defending overall champion Lara Gut suffered a season-ending injury during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016–17 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup
The International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Skiing World Cup is the premier circuit for alpine skiing competition. The inaugural FIS FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup season launched in January 1967 Alpine Skiing World Cup, 1967 and this 51st season began on 22 October 2016 in Sölden, Austria, and concluded in the United States at Aspen Mountain (ski area), Aspen on 19 March 2017. The biennial FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2017, World Championships interrupted the tour in early February in Piz Nair, Saint Moritz, Switzerland. The season-ending finals in March were held in North America for the first time in two decades: the last finale in the U.S. was in 1997 Alpine Skiing World Cup, 1997 at Vail Ski Resort, Vail. Chief Race Director for the WC Tour, Markus Waldner, offered his pre-season thoughts on the pending 2016-17 tour in an early October interview. He addressed: early season scheduling and weather considerations, the growing global interest in alpine skiing beyon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Institutes Of Technology
A university technical institute or ''IUT'' () is a type of post-secondary vocational college in France, similar to the ''yrkeshögskolan'' in Sweden. This is a type of educational institution, usually in small and medium-sized towns, that offers post-secondary study programmes designed to provide higher vocational education or the technical skills needed to perform the tasks of a particular and specific job. While the academic level is the same as a bachelor's degree (''licence''), the programme is different, with much more practical work, projects, apprenticeships and work placements, unlike a traditional bachelor's degree. Its main diploma, the '' bachelor universitaire de technologie'' (in English "University Bachelor of Technical Studies"), is very similar to a Bachelor of Applied Science. The model of a university technical institute in France is similar to that of a university technical college in England or a post-secondary vocational school. Unlike them, a Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annecy
Annecy ( , ; , also ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nicknamed the "Pearl of the French Alps" in Raoul Blanchard's monograph describing its location between lake and mountains, the town controls the northern entrance to the lake gorge. Due to a lack of available building land between the lake and the protected Semnoz mountain, its population has remained stable, around 50,000 inhabitants, since 1950. However, the 2017 merger with several ex-communes extended the population of the city to 128,199 inhabitants and that of the Urban unit, urban area to 177,622, placing Annecy seventh in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Switching from the County of Geneva, counts of Geneva's dwelling in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albertville
Albertville (; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Arbèrtvile'') is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region in Southeastern France. It is best known for hosting the 1992 Winter Olympics and 1992 Winter Paralympics, Paralympics. In 2018, the Communes of France, commune had a population of 19,214; its Urban unit, urban area had 39,780 inhabitants. Geography Albertville is one of two Subprefectures in France, subprefectures of the Savoie department, alongside Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. Albertville is situated on the river Arly, close to the confluence with the river Isère (river), Isère. Its altitude ranges from . Nearby mountains include: Belle Étoile, Dent de Cons, Négresse, Roche Pourrie, Mirantin, Pointe de la Grande Journée, Chaîne du Grand Arc. Nearby mountain ranges include the Bauges, the Beaufortain and the beginning of the Vanoise massif, Vanoise. History The modern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
