| Disciplines | Downhill, Super G Giant Slalom, Combined |
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| Born | October 2, 1977 Morgins, Valais, Switzerland |
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| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||
| World Cup debut | March 7, 1996 - (age 18) | ||||||||||||
| Website | Didier Defago.ch | ||||||||||||
| Olympics | |||||||||||||
| Teams | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Medals | 1 (1 gold) | ||||||||||||
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| Teams | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Medals | 0 | ||||||||||||
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| Wins | 4 - (3 DH, 1 SG) | ||||||||||||
| Podiums | 14 | ||||||||||||
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Didier Défago (born 2 October 1977, in Morgins, Switzerland) is an alpine ski racer on the World Cup circuit. He was Swiss national champion in downhill (2003) and Giant Slalom (2004). At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Défago won the downhill at Whistler to become the Olympic champion.[1]
Défago experienced his best World Cup seasons in 2005, when he finished sixth overall and fourth in the Super-G standings, and in 2009, when he won two downhill races in a row, the classics at Wengen and Kitzbühel.[2] He was the first to win these in consecutive weeks since Stephan Eberharter in 2002, and the first Swiss racer since Franz Heinzer in 1992.
While training on a glacier above Zermatt in mid-September 2010, Defago fell and injured ligaments in his left knee, ending his 2011 season.[3]
| Date | Event | Location | Race |
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| 20 December 2002 | 2003 World Cup | Val Gardena, Italy | Super-G |
| 18 January 2009 | 2009 World Cup | Wengen, Switzerland | Downhill |
| 24 January 2009 | Kitzbühel, Austria | Downhill | |
| 15 February 2010 | 2010 Winter Olympics | Whistler, Canada | Downhill |
| 29 December 2011 | 2012 World Cup | Bormio, Italy | Downhill |
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