Candide Thovex

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Candide Thovex

Candide Thovex, 2012
Born (1982-05-22) 22 May 1982
Annecy
Occupation Skier

Candide Thovex (born 22 May 1982), is a French professional skier.

Biography

Candide Thovex was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, and grew up in the village of La Clusaz, France. Thovex learned to ski in the Aravis region of the French Alps. Candide started skiing when he was 2 years old. At the age of 8, he entered the Moguls ski club of La Clusaz. He became French Moguls champion and professional skier when he was only 14 years old. After this, he got inspired by snowboarding and started looking at skiing in a different way. In 1998, he participated at the first ever ski half pipe and quarter pipe competition in Riksgransen, Sweden, with others pioneers like JP Auclair, JF Cusson, Vincent Dorion and others. In 1999, Candide attended the first ski event at the X Games and placed fourth in the Big Air. Few days after, Candide became better known for being the first person to jump Chad's Gap. He was convinced by film maker Kris Ostness to go into the backcountry to film Ostness's film, Clay Pigeons. After Chad Zurinskas failed in his attempt to take the jump, Thovex asked if he could try. Then 16, Candide pulled what at the time was the largest, cleanest mute grab ever recorded. He came back to it the next year and landed a d-spin 720. Candide won Xgames gold for big air in 2000 at the age of 17. He also won gold at the X Games in 2003 for halfpipe[1] and 2007 for slopestyle. His 2007 run was switchup, switchup, 270 off the flat down box, 360 switchup 270 off the trap box. Switch right misty 7 mute, switch cork 9 mute, cork 9 tail, switch 630 on, and switch cork 10 tail.

Candide Invitiational

Candide is the organizer of the Candide Invitational in his hometown of La Clusaz, a competition which gathers freestyle skiing and snowboarding best talents. An event just like Candide : modern, innovative and always the theatre of special feats. Thanks to this event, Candide Thovex changed the standards of modern skiing and showed the world that this sports not only consists in going down the mountain as quickly as possible to get the best time record. Smart with his professional approach of the sport, he carries out his own freestyle ski movies in which he's the hero like Special Delivery, Rastafaride and French Toast. Candide leads a generation of kids who dream to fulfil his performances.

He has appeared in many movies, notably the Rastafaride series.

Film appearances

  • Propaganda
  • Royalty
  • Focused
  • Rastafaride 1
  • Rastafaride 2
  • Rastafaride 3: French Toast (2003)
  • Rastafaride 4
  • Rastafaride 5: Pull Up (2005)
  • Rastafaride 6: Wha'ppen (2006)
  • Rastafaride 7: Seventh Heaven
  • Special Delivery
  • DVD Candide Invitational
  • Further
  • Anomaly
  • War
  • Candide Thovex Invitational Story
  • Lost and Found
  • Strike
  • Mind the Gap
  • Happy Dayz
  • Tangerine Dream
  • Candide Kamera
  • Candide Kamera 2
  • Few Words. A Candide Thovex Film (Fall 2012)
  • One of those days

Competition results

1999:

  • 4th X Games, Crested Butte, Colorado, Big Air

2000:

  • 1st X Games, Mount Snow, Vermont Big Air
  • 1st Gravity Games, Mammoth Mountain, California, Big Air

2002:

  • 2nd US Open, Vail, Colorado, Superpipe
  • 4th US Open, Vail, Colorado, Slopestyle
  • 5th US Open, Vail, Colorado, Big Air
  • 2nd World Skiing Invitational, Whistler, BC, Canada, Superpipe
  • 1st Rip Curl Freeski, Saas Fee, SUI., Overall
  • 2nd Rip Curl Freeski, Saas Fee, SUI., Halfpipe
  • 1st Rip Curl Freeski, Saas Fee, SUI., Slopestyle
  • 2nd Rip Curl Freeski, Saas Fee, SUI., Big Air
  • 9th X Games, Aspen, Colorado, Slopestyle
  • 4th X Games, Aspen, Colorado, Superpipe

2003:

  • 2nd World Superpipe Championships, Park City, UT., Halfpipe
  • 5th X Games, Aspen, Colorado, Slopestyle
  • 1st X Games, Aspen, Colorado, Superpipe

2006:

  • 1st Orage European Feeskiing Open, Laax, SUI., Superpipe

2007:

  • 1st. X games 11, Aspen, Colorado, slopestyle
  • 5th. X games 11, Aspen, Colorado, superpipe
  • 5th Ski Tour, Sun Valley, ID.

2010:

  • 1st. Red Bull Linecatcher
  • 1st. Freeride World Tour Chamonix
  • 1st. Freeride World Tour Overall
  • 2009-2010 Freeride World Champion

References

  1. ↑ Superpipe stunner in Aspen

http://quiksilver.co.uk/england/team/snow/8/thovex-candide.html

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