Jean-Luc Crétier
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Gold | 1998 Nagano | Downhill |
Jean-Luc Crétier (born April 28, 1966 in Aimè) is a French former Alpine skier. He won the gold medal in the downhill at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano he came in the long line of big surprises in the event. By the pass of his career he did never manage to win a single World Cup competition
1948: Henri Oreiller | 1952: Zeno Colò | 1956: Toni Sailer | 1960: Jean Vuarnet | 1964: Egon Zimmermann | 1968: Jean-Claude Killy | 1972: Bernhard Russi | 1976: Franz Klammer | 1980: Leonhard Stock | 1984: Bill Johnson | 1988: Pirmin Zurbriggen | 1992: Patrick Ortlieb | 1994: Tommy Moe | 1998: Jean-Luc Crétier | 2002: Fritz Strobl | 2006: Antoine Dénériaz
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