Johan Clarey (born 8 January 1981) is a French

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alpine ski racer. He specializes in the speed events of downhill and

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. Born in

Annecy Annecy ( , ; frp, Èneci or ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. It lies on the northern tip of Lake Annecy, south of Geneva, Switzerland. Nickname ...

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, Clarey made his World Cup debut in November

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and has ten World Cup podiums through He set a World Cup speed record in

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at the classic downhill race in

Wengen Wengen () is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of central Switzerland. Located in the canton of Bern at an elevation of above sea level, it is part of the Jungfrauregion and has approximately 1,300 year-round residents, which swells to ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, with a maximum speed of at the ''Haneggschuss'', the fastest section of the

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slope. Clarey finished fifth and was injured the following week at

Kitzbühel Kitzbühel (, also: ; ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district (). Kitzbühe ...

and missed the remainder of the 2013 season, including the

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. In the winter of 2014–15, Clarey was in the top 10 three times in World Cup races and twice in the winter of 2015–16. He was again on the podium on January

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in Kitzbühel. At age forty in January

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, Clarey finished second in the downhill at Kitzbühel to become the oldest ever to make a World Cup podium, his eighth. One year later he again finished second in a Kitzbühel downhill race, thus beating his own age record. At the

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in China, 41-year-old Clarey was the silver medalist in the downhill, one-tenth of a second back.

World Cup results

Season standings

Race podiums

* 10 podiums – (9 DH, 1 SG); 62 top tens

World Championship results

Olympic results

Video

You Tube
– Johan Clarey sets alpine ski record – Universal Sports – 19 January 2013

References

External links

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French Ski Team – 2022 men's A team
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