Émile Allais
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Born | Megève, France | 25 February 1912|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 17 October 2012 Sallanches, France | (aged 100)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Émile Allais (25 February 1912 – 17 October 2012)[1] was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered to have been the first great French alpine skier.
Allais won the bronze medal in the
After a spell in
As a consultant to Skis Rossignol, Allais helped to design the laminated-wood Olympic 41 ski (1941), and the first aluminum skis to win major ski races, the Métallais (1959) and Allais 60 (1960). The Olympic 41 later served as the basis of Rossignol's very successful Strato (1964).
In December 2005, 93-year-old Allais made the trip to the
Allais died after an illness in a hospital in Sallanches in the French Alps on 17 October 2012.
References
- ^ French ski legend dies at planetski.eu
- ^ Full biography of Émile Allais, in English, in Skiing Heritage, Sept 2003
- ^ "Allais, aged 94, skis on" from The Age, February 18, 2006
- ^ "God-father of ski celebrates his 100th birthday". Courchnet.com. 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
French ski legend dies at planetski.eu
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