Didier Cuche
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Full name | Didier Cuche | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland | 16 August 1974||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ski club | Chasseral Dombresson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World Cup career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seasons | 1993–2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall titles | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline titles | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Updated on 25 February 2012. |
Didier Cuche (born 16 August 1974) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.
Career
Born in
At the
Cuche switched from
During the
Cuche repeated as the World Cup downhill season champion in
At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isère, France, Cuche won the super-G and was the silver medalist in the downhill.
A week after winning the super-G and downhill at Kitzbühel in
On 22 January 2011, Cuche became the oldest race winner in the history of the World Cup, winning the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel at the age of 36 years, 159 days.[5] It was also his fourth downhill victory in Kitzbühel, which tied him with Franz Klammer for the record on the Hahnenkamm. He has since added a fifth victory in Kitzbühel to his tally, thus becoming the sole record holder;[6] Klammer was there to congratulate him at the finish.
At the 2011 World Championships in February, he won the silver medal in the downhill. In March he won the World Cup downhill championship for the 2011 season. This marked the fourth time he won the season title (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007), a record only surpassed by Franz Klammer who won the title five times. He ended the 2011 World Cup season in first-place ranking in downhill and super-G, finishing second in the overall rankings to Ivica Kostelić.
After considerable speculation as to whether Cuche might instead retire, he opened the 2012 World Cup season by winning the downhill race at
On 19 January 2012 Cuche announced his retirement for the end of the 2012 season.[8] He gave his retirement speech in Kitzbühel during which he stated that he wanted to "leave the World Cup stage on a high".[9] Only two days later, Cuche won the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel for the fifth time in his career, including his first World Cup win in 1998.[6] The following week, Cuche won the downhill at Garmisch, Germany, for his twentieth World Cup victory. He extended the record for the oldest winner of a World Cup race with his 21st and last career victory in the super-G of Crans Montana on 24 February 2012 to 37 years, 192 days.[10]
In December 2012, the Swiss ski federation announced that Cuche would work with his former teammates as a downhill coach after they suffered a slow start to the season.[11]
Other awards
Cuche won the Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 2009 and 2011. In January 2012 during the "Swiss Awards" he won the Swiss Person of the Year award in 2011.
World Cup results
Season standings
Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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1996 |
21 | 92 | – | – | 47 | 40 | – |
1997 |
22 | ||||||
1998 |
23 | 8 | – | – | 6 | 4 | 11 |
1999 |
24 | 15 | – | 30 | 13 | 13 | 4 |
2000 |
25 | 12 | – | 12 | 9 | 11 | 17 |
2001 |
26 | 10 | – | 20 | 6 | 13 | — |
2002 |
27 | 4 | – | 4 | 2 | 14 | — |
2003 |
28 | 5 | – | 20 | 3 | 9 | — |
2004 |
29 | 13 | – | 24 | 10 | 9 | 10 |
2005 |
30 | 17 | – | 11 | 27 | 21 | — |
2006 |
31 | 34 | – | 24 | 28 | 18 | — |
2007 |
32 | 3 | – | 7 | 2 | 1 | 34 |
2008 |
33 | 3 | – | 4 | 2 | 1 | 23 |
2009 |
34 | 3 | – | 1 | 7 | 7 | 30 |
2010 |
35 | 3 | – | 9 | 8 | 1 | 27 |
2011 |
36 | 2 | – | 9 | 1 | 1 | — |
2012 |
37 | 6 | – | 30 | 2 | 3 | — |
Season titles
6 season titles: 4 downhill, 1 super-G, 1 giant slalom
Season | Discipline |
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2007 |
Downhill |
2008 |
Downhill |
2009 |
Giant slalom |
2010 |
Downhill |
2011 |
Downhill |
Super-G |
Race victories
- 21 wins (12 downhill, 6 super-G, 3 giant slalom)
- 67 podiums (32 DH, 23 SG, 12 GS)
Season | Date | Location | Discipline |
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1998 |
23 Jan 1998 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill |
2002 |
5 Jan 2002 | Adelboden, Switzerland | Giant slalom |
7 Mar 2002 | Altenmarkt, Austria | Super-G | |
2003 |
8 Dec 2002 | Beaver Creek, USA | Super-G |
2004 |
30 Jan 2004 | Garmisch, Germany | Downhill |
2007 |
10 Mar 2007 | Kvitfjell, Norway | Downhill |
2008 |
14 Dec 2007 | Val Gardena, Italy | Super-G |
19 Jan 2008 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill | |
2009
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21 Feb 2009 | Sestriere, Italy | Giant slalom | |
2010 |
25 Oct 2009 | Sölden, Austria | Giant slalom |
28 Nov 2009 | Lake Louise , Canada |
Downhill | |
22 Jan 2010 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Super-G | |
23 Jan 2010 | Downhill | ||
6 Mar 2010 | Kvitfjell, Norway | Downhill | |
2011 |
22 Jan 2011 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill |
29 Jan 2011 | Chamonix, France | Downhill | |
13 Mar 2011 | Kvitfjell, Norway | Super-G | |
2012 |
26 Nov 2011 | Lake Louise, Canada | Downhill |
21 Jan 2012 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill | |
28 Jan 2012 | Garmisch, Germany | Downhill | |
24 Feb 2012 | Crans-Montana, Switzerland | Super-G |
World Championship results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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1999 | 24 | — | — | 8 | 14 | — |
2001 | 26 | — | 16 | 5 | DNF | — |
2003 | 28 | — | 12 | 11 | 4 | — |
2005 | 30 | |||||
2007 | 32 | — | 3 | 4 | 6 | — |
2009 | 34 | — | 6 | 1 | 2 | — |
2011 | 36 | — | 8 | 4 | 2 | — |
Olympic results
Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
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1998 | 23 | — | 14 | 2 | 8 | — |
2002 | 27 | — | 10 | DSQ | 14 | — |
2006 | 31 | — | 19 | 12 | — | — |
2010 | 35 | — | 14 | 10 | 6 | — |
References
- ^ Ski-db.com – results – Didier Cuche – accessed 17 March 2011.
- ^ afp.google.com Archived 20 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ sportsillustrated.cnn.com – 29 January 2010.
- ^ abcnews.go.com – 9710341
- ^ "Triumphant Didier Cuche sets age mark". ESPN.com. ESPN. Associated Press. 22 January 2011. Retrieved 22 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Didier Cuche wins record fifth Hahnenkamm World Cup". BBC Sport. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
- ^ "Didier Cuche wins at Lake Louise". ESPN.com. ESPN. Associated Press. 26 November 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- BSkyB. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ McMillan, Kelley (19 January 2012). "Swiss Downhill Star Cuche Announces Retirement". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ^ "FIS results for Didier Cuche (top 3 results only)". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ "Didier Cuche returns to Swiss ski team as coach". Associated Press. 6 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
External links
- Didier Cuche at FIS (alpine)
- Didier Cuche at Olympics.com
- Didier Cuche at Olympedia
- Didier Cuche at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Official website (in French)
- Swiss Ski team official site Archived 3 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
- Didier Cuche Archived 2 January 2012 at the Head Skis