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Jean-Claude Killy
Jean-Claude Killy is a French former World Cup alpine ski racer. He dominated the sport in the late 1960s, and was a triple Olympic champion, winning the three alpine events at the 1968 Winter Olympics, becoming the most successful athlete there. He also won the first two World Cup titles, in 1967 and 1968.
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Born 30 August 1943 · Q11485
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1992· 1 entry
Earned Gold Olympic Order (1992).
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1987· 1 entry
Earned Silver Olympic Order (1987).
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1983· 1 entry
Bob Gillen wrote in Ski magazine about the growing reputation of Shawnee Mountain as a ski area
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1975· 1 entry
Killy was hired to lead the new ski operations at Shawnee Mountain Ski Area, a resort in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains in northeastern Pennsylvania
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1974· 1 entry
Killy, as part of this sponsorship deal was paid to ski down the previously unskied eastern slope of Mt Ngauruhoe (Peter Jackson's "Mt Doom") in New Zealand
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1969· 1 entry
Partnered with Bob Wollek, another former skier turned racing driver
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1968· 4 entries
Awarded L'Équipe Champion of Champions (1968).
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As the overall champion, placing first in the giant slalom and second in the downhill and slalom season standings
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Gaubert and Trujillo were divorced in 1968 and later that year she met Killy.
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And later that year she met Killy
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Skieur d'or (1967).
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Winning 12 of 17 races to easily take the overall title
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Skieur d'or (1965).
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1962· 1 entry
During a summer of compulsory service with the French Army in Algeria
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1950· 1 entry
His mother Madeline abandoned the family for another man, leaving Robert to raise Jean-Claude, age 7, his older sister (France), and their infant brother (Mic)
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-08-30.
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