Jean-Noël Augert (born 17 August 1949) is a French former

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. He competed at the 1972 Olympics and finished in fifth place in the slalom and giant slalom.

Career

Augert was born in

Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (; or ''Sant-Jian-de-Môrièna''; ) is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Savoie Departments of France, department, in the regions of France, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (formerly Rhône-Alpes), in south ...

and grew at the La Toussuire ski resort,

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. he debuted in the

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with a victory, at the

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giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding competitive discipline. It involves racing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in Slalom skiing, slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant sl ...

(6 January 1969). Nicknamed "Rosko", he was, however, a specialist of the slalom discipline, in which he won three World Cups in 1969, 1971 and 1972, and in which he won a gold medal at the 1970 World Championships in

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. He was also second in the overall classification of the 1969 World Cup and third in the giant slalom World Cup 1969. Besides his 15 wins in World Cup races, he finished 15 times at the podium (place two: 6 slaloms, 3 giant slaloms; place three: 2 slaloms, 4 giant slaloms). He came fifth in both the men's slalom and giant slalom at the

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. Becoming fifth in the giant slalom at

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did come up to his expectations, but the other fifth place didn't (it was disappointing). Because he did win the slalom Races at

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and

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(known as the most difficult Slalom Races) a few weeks before - he was the odds-one favorite. In the

-Races in 1971, he could win two Slalom Races: One on 23 January, one on 24 January - but only the second one counted for the World Cup. The race on 23 January (it was called FIS-Race) was carried out instead of the downhill Race, which was cancelled because lack of snow. Augert retired from the competitions aged 24, due to quarrels with the French Ski Federation (December 1973). In 1975 he married the fellow alpine skier Françoise Macchi. He is the uncle of

Jean-Pierre Vidal Jean-Pierre Vidal (born 24 February 1977 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie) is a French alpine skier. As a young skier, he focused mainly on downhill. After hurting his knee, however, he decided to go for slalom. In 2002, he h ...

, Olympic champion in slalom at the

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, and fellow alpine skier

Vanessa Vidal Vanessa Vidal (born 21 December 1974) is a former alpine skier from France, who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics. She is the sister of former Olympic slalom champion Jean-Pierre Vidal and the niece of former alpin ...

. He also is the nephew of Jean-Pierre Augert.

World Cup victories

Season titles

Individual races

* 15 wins – (13 slalom, 2

)Jean Noel Augert FRA
ski-db.com † Results from the 1970 World Championships were included in the

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standings.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Augert, Jean-Noel 1949 births Living people People from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne Alpine skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics French male alpine skiers FIS Alpine Ski World Cup champions Olympic alpine skiers for France Skiers from Savoie 20th-century French sportsmen