Carole Montillet

Carole Montillet

Medal record
Women's alpine skiing
Representing France
Olympic Games
	2002 Salt Lake City	Downhill
World Championships
	2005 Bormio	Team event

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

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

Season	Discipline
2003	Super-G

Season standings

Season	Age	Overall	Slalom	Giant Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined
1992	18	105	—	—	39	21	21
1993	19	59	—	39	10	8	8
1994	20	59	—	33	12	27	28
1995	21	67	—	52	9	20	—
1996	22	31	—	36	22	26	—
1997	23	15	—	47	15	15	—
1998	24	26	—	52	21	9	—
1999	25	26	—	16	4	8	—
2000	26	55	—	11	4	5	10
2001	27	9	—	—	3	4	—
2002	28	16	—	16	9	13	—
2003	29	6	—	28	1	4	—
2004	30	5	—	25	2	3	—
2005	31	18	—	—	16	7	—
2006	32	37	—	—	22	20	—

Race victories

• 8 wins – (4 DH, 4 SG)
• 25 podiums – (13 DH, 12 SG)

Season	Date	Location	Discipline
2001	16 Feb 2001	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Super-G
2003	7 Dec 2002	Lake Louise	Downhill
	13 Dec 2002	Val d'Isère	Super-G
	15 Jan 2003	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Super-G
2004	5 Dec 2003	Lake Louise	Downhill
	6 Dec 2003		Downhill
	18 Jan 2004	Cortina d'Ampezzo	Downhill
	1 Feb 2004	Haus im Ennstal	Super-G

World Championship results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined	Team event
1993	19	—	—	—	8	—	not run
1996	22	—	—	11	20	—
1997	23	—	—	4	7	—
1999	25	—	—	15	22	—
2001	27	—	—	5	10	—
2003	29	—	19	14	7	—
2005	31	—	—	DNF	21	—	3

Olympic results

Year	Age	Slalom	Giant   Slalom	Super G	Downhill	Combined
1998	24	—	—	14	14	—
2002	28	—	18	7	1	—
2006	32	—	—	5	28	—

External links

• Carole Montillet-Carles at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
• Carole Montillet-Carles World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation
• Carole Montillet at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
• Carole Montillet-Carles at Olympics.com
• Carole Montillet at Olympic.org (archived)
• Carole Montillet-Carles at Olympedia
• Biography at Yahoo.com (in French)
• Official website (in French)