Jean-Claude Killy biography
Jean-Claude Killy, (born August 30, 1943, Saint-Cloud, close to Paris, France), French skier, a dominant determine in males’s worldwide Alpine snowboarding competitions from 1965 by means of 1968 and a well-liked sports activities personage identified for his irreverent behaviour.
Killy, a descendant of an Irish mercenary soldier named Kelly who fought for Napoleon I, was reared at Val-d’Isère, a ski resort within the French Alps. In 1964 he grew to become the main French male skier, profitable nationwide championships in all three divisions of Alpine snowboarding: downhill, slalom, and large slalom. He was the European champion for the primary time in 1965. In 1966 at Portillo, Chile, he received the world mixed championship within the mixture occasion.
In 1966–67 Killy received each downhill race he entered and earned the primary World Cup for males (awarded by the Fédération Internationale de Ski [FIS] for ending among the many leaders most persistently in a collection of worldwide races). In that 12 months and once more in 1967–68, when he repeated his World Cup triumph, he led the French skiers to the world staff championship. At the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France, he received gold medals for the downhill, slalom, and large slalom races for males, changing into the second skier in Olympic historical past to brush the Alpine occasions. (The first was Toni Sailer of Austria in 1956.)
After his retirement from aggressive snowboarding in April 1968, Killy engaged in various actions, together with appearing and auto racing. He returned to snowboarding in 1972 as an expert, changing into world champion {of professional} skiers. Killy was a serious organizer of the 1992 Winter Olympic Games at Albertville, France, and served as an adviser or director for various companies. From 1995 to 2014 he was a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and through that point he served on various IOC commissions. Killy wrote a number of books about snowboarding.