Carole Montillet

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Carole Montillet
Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing Flag of France.svg  France
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 Salt Lake City Downhill
World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2005 Bormio Team event

Carole Montillet-Carles (born 7 April 1973) is a French World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.

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Career

Born in Corrençon-en-Vercors, Isère, she became a member of the Villard-de-Lans ski club in Grenoble. At her Olympic debut in 1998 at Nagano, Japan, she finished 14th in both the super-G and downhill.

In January 2002, Montillet was chosen by the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français to be the flag bearer at Salt Lake City. Her victory in the downhill days later was her first major triumph and the first alpine gold medal by a Frenchwoman since Marielle Goitschel's slalom gold in Grenoble in 1968. She dedicated the win to her late teammate Régine Cavagnoud, the reigning world champion in super-G, who died after a training accident less than four months earlier.

Montillet's achievements were more remarkable because she has suffered multiple serious injuries early in her career, such as torn knee ligaments.

While training for the downhill at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Montillet-Carles crashed on 13 February and was evacuated by helicopter to a nearby hospital. She suffered rib, back, and facial injuries, but still opted to defend her title two days later, but finished 28th. Several racers had complained that the downhill course was too easy, and Olympic organizers had made several changes to it. She finished fifth in the super-G five days later, then retired from competition at the end of the World Cup season.

World Cup results

Season titles

SeasonDiscipline
2003 Super-G

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super GDownhillCombined
1992 18105392121
1993 1959391088
1994 205933122728
1995 216752920
1996 2231362226
1997 2315471515
1998 242652219
1999 25261648
2000 2655114510
2001 27934
2002 281616913
2003 2962814
2004 3052523
2005 3118167
2006 32372220

Race victories

SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
2001 16 Feb 2001 Flag of Germany.svg Garmisch-Partenkirchen Super-G
2003 7 Dec 2002 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lake Louise Downhill
13 Dec 2002 Flag of France.svg Val d'Isère Super-G
15 Jan 2003 Flag of Italy.svg Cortina d'Ampezzo Super-G
2004 5 Dec 2003 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Lake LouiseDownhill
6 Dec 2003Downhill
18 Jan 2004 Flag of Italy.svg Cortina d'AmpezzoDownhill
1 Feb 2004 Flag of Austria.svg Haus im Ennstal Super-G

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 
Super GDownhillCombinedTeam
event
1993 198not
run
1996 221120
1997 2347
1999 251522
2001 27510
2003 2919147
2005 31DNF21 3

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 Slalom 
Super GDownhillCombined
1998 24 14 14
2002 28 18 7 1
2006 32 5 28

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