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 ( , ; , also ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Haute-Savoie Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, regi ...

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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,

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, 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 town rights, medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol (state), Tyrol, Austria, about east of the state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbüh ...

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 in January

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in Kitzbühel. At age forty in January

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, 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

* 0 wins * 11 podiums (10 DH, 1 SG); 64 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 – 2023 men's A team
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