French alpine skier
Guy Perillat
 circa 1966
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| Born
| 24 February 1940
(
1940-02-24
)
(age
84)
Annecy
, Haute-Savoie, France
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| Height
| 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
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| Weight
| 68 kg (150 lb)
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| Sport
| Alpine skiing
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| Club
| Club Ski de La Clusaz
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Guy Perillat Merceroz
(born 24 February 1940) is a former
World Cup
alpine ski racer
from the resort of
La Clusaz
,
Haute-Savoie
, one of the top ski racers of the 1960s.
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Biography
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On his twentieth birthday at the
1960 Winter Olympics
, Perillat won the gold medal in the
combined
, a non-Olympic event at the time, but a
World Championship
title. Two days earlier, he won a bronze medal in the
downhill
. The following year, Perillat won both the classic downhills of
Wengen
and
Kitzbuhel
, at the time only the third racer to have accomplished the feat in the same season.
[1]
The count now includes ten racers, with
Austrians
as the only multiple double-winners;
Toni Sailer
twice (1956?57), and
Franz Klammer
three consecutive (
1975
?
77
). The others are
Christian Pravda
of Austria (1954),
Jean-Claude Killy
of France (
1967
),
Karl Schranz
of Austria (
1969
),
Roland Collombin
of
Switzerland
(
1974
),
Ken Read
of
Canada
(
1980
),
Franz Heinzer
of Switzerland (
1992
), and
Stephan Eberharter
of Austria (
2002
).
At the
1962 World Championships
in
Chamonix
,
France
, Perillat took second in the slalom. Four years later at
Portillo
,
Chile
in August
1966
, he won the world championship in the giant slalom and again took the silver in the slalom.
While most of his success came before the World Cup era, Perillat won two
slalom
races in the first season of
1967
.
Perillat took the silver medal in the
downhill
at the
1968 Winter Olympics
, finishing behind countryman
Jean-Claude Killy
. Perillat retired from international competition following the
1969 season
at age 29.
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World Cup results
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Season standings
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| Season
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Age
|
Overall
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Slalom
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Giant
Slalom
|
Super G
|
Downhill
|
Combined
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| 1967
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27
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3
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2
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12
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not
run
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2
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not
awarded
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| 1968
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28
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5
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25
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6
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4
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| 1969
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29
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30
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25
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32
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13
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Race victories
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World Championship results
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From
1948
through
1980
, the
Winter Olympics
were also the
World Championships
for alpine skiing.
At the World Championships from 1954 through 1980, the combined was a "paper race" using the results of the three events (DH, GS, SL).
Olympic results
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References
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External links
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