Franck Piccard

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Olympic medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Competitor for France
Gold	1988 Calgary	Super-G
Silver	1992 Albertville	Downhill
Bronze	1988 Calgary	Downhill

Franck Piccard (born September 17, 1965) is a French former Alpine skier.

A native of Les Saisies, Piccard won a total of four Alpine skiing World Cup races. At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary he won a gold medal in the Super-G competition and a bronze medal in the downhill. At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville he won a silver medal in the downhill.

His father gave him the name Franck in tribute to Frank Sinatra.^[1]Piccard's siblings Leila Piccard, Ian Piccard and Jeff Piccard also competed as alpine skiiers,^[1] as does his daughter Lucie.^[2] Another brother, Ted Piccard, has competed in both alpine skiing and skiercross.^[3]

World Cup victories

Date	Location	Race
13 March 1988	Beaver Creek	Super-G
11 January 1990	Schladming	Downhill
2 December 1990	Valloire	Super-G
30 October 1993	Sölden	Giant slalom

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nagano Olympics - Athlete profile: Leila Piccard". CNN/SI. 3 February 1998. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
↑ "Russian Golenkova Takes Downhill Gold". 2013 Winter Universiade. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
↑ Keillor, Lynn (21 January 2010). "Ted Piccard Battles Health, Heritage". ESPN. Retrieved 18 December 2013.

Sports Reference FIS-ski biography for Franck Piccard

v t e Olympic Champions in Men's Super-G

1988: Franck Piccard 1992: Kjetil André Aamodt 1994: Markus Wasmeier 1998: Hermann Maier 2002: Kjetil André Aamodt 2006: Kjetil André Aamodt 2010: Aksel Lund Svindal

Persondata
Name	Piccard, Franck
Alternative names
Short description	Alpine skier
Date of birth	September 17, 1965
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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