Didier Cuche

Didier Cuche
Didier Cuche
Personal information
Full name Didier Cuche
Born August 16, 1974 (1974-08-16) (age 37)
Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Height 5 ft 8.5 in (1.74 m)
Professional information
Club Chasseral Dombresson
Skis Head
World Cup
Seasons 1993 - present
Wins 17
Additional podiums 43
Total podiums 60
Updated on 2011-03-13.
Medal record
Competitor for  Switzerland
Men's Alpine Skiing
Olympic Games
Silver 1998 Nagano Super-G
World Championships
Gold 2009 Val d'Isère Super-G
Silver 2011 Garmisch Downhill
Silver 2009 Val d'Isère Downhill
Bronze 2007 Åre Giant Slalom

Didier Cuche (born August 16, 1974, in Le Pâquier, Neuchâtel) is a Swiss alpine ski racer. He primarily competes in the speed disciplines of downhill and Super-G, along with the technical discipline of giant slalom. He is the reigning World Cup downhill and Super-G champion for the 2011 season and has won three previous downhill titles in 2010, 2008 and 2007, along with a giant slalom title in 2009. Through March 2011, Cuche has 17 World Cup race victories, along with 60 podiums (top three) and 170 top ten finishes.[1] He is also an Olympic silver medalist and has won a total of four World Championships medals (a gold, two silvers, and a bronze).

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Career highlights

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Cuche was the silver medalist in the Super-G, where he had exactly the same time as Hans Knauss resulting in a rare sharing of the medal (no bronze medal was awarded).

Cuche switched from Atomic to Head skis following the 2006 season, joining Bode Miller and Hermann Maier.

During the 2007 season, Cuche was in top form, winning the downhill season title with a victory and four second place finishes. In the Bormio downhill on December 28, 2006, he finished second, 0.01 seconds behind winner Michael Walchhofer, the smallest measurable amount in ski racing.

Cuche repeated as the World Cup downhill season champion in 2008 with 584 points, five ahead of overall champion Bode Miller. Cuche finished third overall and nearly won the Super-G season title, finishing a single point behind champion Hannes Reichelt.[2]

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 2010, Cuche broke his right thumb in the giant slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia on January 29, two weeks before the 2010 Winter Olympics.[3] The injury put Cuche's Olympic participation in doubt, and he was immediately flown to Switzerland. After successful thumb surgery, he was cleared to compete in the Olympics in Canada.[4] Cuche had a disappointing Olympics and did not medal, however he regained the title of World Cup downhill champion for the 2010 season at the first post-Olympic race. Cuche won the downhill on the challenging Olympiabakken course at Kvitfjell, Norway, on March 6 for his fifth World Cup victory of the season. Until 2010, Cuche had never won more than two World Cup events in a single season.

On January 22, 2011, Cuche became the oldest race winner in the history of the World Cup, winning the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel at the age of &1000000000000003600000036 years, &10000000000000159000000159 days.[5] It was also his fourth downhill victory in Kitzbühel, which ties him with Franz Klammer for the record on the Hahnenkamm, which is generally considered the most difficult and dangerous of all downhill courses. He extended his age record a week later, with another downhill win in Chamonix at the age of &1000000000000003600000036 years, &10000000000000166000000166 days.

At the 2011 World Championships in February, he won the silver medal in the downhill. In March he won the downhill champion title for the 2011 season. This marked the fourth time he captured the title (2011, 2010, 2008, 2007), a record only surpassed by Franz Klammer who won the title five times. He ended the 2010-11 FIS World Cup season in first place ranking in Downhill and Super-G, finishing second in the Overall rankings to Ivica Kostelic.

World Cup victories

Season titles

6 season titles: 4 downhill, 1 Super-G, 1 giant slalom

Season Discipline
2007 Downhill
2008 Downhill
2009 Giant Slalom
2010 Downhill
2011 Downhill
Super-G

Race victories

17 race victories: (9 downhill, 5 super G, 3 giant slalom)

Season Date Location Race
1998 23 Jan 1998 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill
2002 05 Jan 2002 Switzerland Adelboden, Switzerland Giant Slalom
07 Mar 2002 Austria Altenmarkt, Austria Super-G
2003 08 Dec 2002 United States Beaver Creek, USA Super-G
2004 30 Jan 2004 Germany Garmisch, Germany Downhill
2007 10 Mar 2007 Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill
2008 14 Dec 2007 Italy Val Gardena, Italy Super-G
19 Jan 2008 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill
2009
21 Feb 2009 Italy Sestriere, Italy Giant Slalom
2010 25 Oct 2009 Austria Sölden, Austria Giant Slalom
28 Nov 2009 Canada Lake Louise, Canada Downhill
22 Jan 2010 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Super-G
23 Jan 2010 Downhill
06 Mar 2010 Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Downhill
2011 22 Jan 2011 Austria Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill
29 Jan 2011 France Chamonix, France Downhill
13 Mar 2011 Norway Kvitfjell, Norway Super-G

References

  1. ^ Ski-db.com - results - Didier Cuche - accessed 2011-03-17
  2. ^ afp.google.com
  3. ^ sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 2010-01-29
  4. ^ abcnews.go.com - 9710341
  5. ^ "Triumphant Didier Cuche sets age mark". ESPN.com. Associated Press (ESPN). 22 January 2011. http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/skiing/news/story?id=6047868. Retrieved 22 January 2011. 

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