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Place of Birth: Les Saisies, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Franck Piccard
- 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. First excellent success was winning a gold-medal in the downhill race in the FIS Alpine Skiing Junior World Championships 1982 at Auron.
- First "World Cup Points", he could catch on December 10th, 1983, placed 4th in the Super-G at Val-d’Isère, first win was in the Super-G on March 23rd, 1988, at Beaver Creek.
- At the begin of his skiing career he did prefer starting in Downhill and Super-G races, later he changed to the Giant Slalom.
- Last World Cup race was on February 10th, 1996, in the Giant Slalom at Hinterstoder; he was placed 27th (therefore one place - and 0,38 sec.
- - behind Hermann Maier at his debut in World Cup Races).
- Afterwards, he did start in so-called FIS-races and in the French Championships, until the year 2000.
- He could achieve a three-times French Champion (1985 till 1993).Another results in the FIS Alpine Skiing World Championships: Bormio 1985: Alpine Combined 6th; Downhill 15th. Crans-Montana 1987: Super-G 10th; Alpine Combined 10th. Vail 1989: Super-G 10th. Saalbach-Hinterglemm 1991: Super-G 3rd; Giant Slalom 13th; Downhill 15th. Sierra Nevada 1996: Giant Slalom 15h. In the Giant Slalom at Morioka in 1993 he didn't finish the first run, held on February 9th.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.
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