Jean-Luc Crétier
Medal record
Men's alpine skiing
Representing  France
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1998 Nagano Downhill
Jean-Luc Crétier at the Lauberhorn downhill 1995

Jean-Luc Crétier (born 28 April 1966 in Albertville, Savoie) is a retired French World Cup alpine ski racer. He was one of the four members of the "Top Guns" team, created and trained by Serge Guillaume outside the mainstream of the French Alpine Ski Federation, along with Luc Alphand, Franck Piccard, and Denis Rey.

At age 31, Crétier won the gold medal in the downhill at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. He was the fourth Frenchman to win the Olympic downhill, but the first in thirty years, since Jean-Claude Killy in 1968.

It was the only victory of Crétier's international career; however, he achieved five World Cup podium finishes, three in the two months prior to his Olympic title.

Crétier finished fourth in the combined event at the 1992 Winter Olympics in his hometown of Albertville.[1] His final World Cup race was just ten months after Nagano; he incurred a career-ending knee injury at Val Gardena in December 1998.[2]

World Cup results

Season standings

SeasonAgeOverallSlalomGiant
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
19892244347
1990235918
1991246118
199225551913
199326973950
1994273813
1995282544106
1996299436
199730623029
19983118275
199932682639

Race podiums

  • 0 wins
  • 5 podiums - (5 DH), 25 top tens
Season Date Location Discipline Place
199418 Dec 1993Italy Val Gardena, ItalyDownhill3rd
29 Jan 1994France Chamonix, FranceDownhill2nd
19984 Dec 1997United States Beaver Creek, USADownhill2nd
17 Jan 1998 Switzerland  Wengen, SwitzerlandDownhill2nd
23 Jan 1998Austria Kitzbühel, AustriaDownhill3rd

World Championship results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
19912411
199326
1996293516
1997301513
  • The Super-G in 1993 was cancelled after multiple weather delays.

Olympic results

  Year   Age  Slalom  Giant 
 slalom 
Super-GDownhillCombined
198821DSQ16
199225244
19942724
199831251

References

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jean-Luc Crétier Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. "Olympic downhill champion injured". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. December 20, 1998. p. 11F.


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