Loïc Meillard Explained

Loïc Meillard
Disciplines:Giant slalom, slalom, combined, super-G
Club:Heremencia
Birth Date:29 October 1996
Birth Place:Neuchâtel, Switzerland[1]
Height:1.82 m
Wcdebut:10 January 2015 (age 18)
Website:loicmeillard.ch
Olympicteams:2 - (2018, 2022)
Olympicmedals:0
Worldsteams:4 - (20172023)
Worldsmedals:3
Worldsgolds:0
Wcseasons:9 - (20152023)
Wcwins:4 - (2 GS, 1 SL, 1 PG)
Wcpodiums:21 - (10 GS, 6 SL, 3 SG,
1 AC, 1 PG)
Wcoveralls:0 - (4th in 2021)
Wctitles:1 - (1 in PAR, 2020)
Show-Medals:yes

Loïc Meillard (in French pronounced as /lɔik mɛjaʁ/; born 29 October 1996) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the technical events of slalom and giant slalom.

Born in Neuchâtel, Meillard made his World Cup debut in January 2015; his younger sister Mélanie is also a World Cup alpine racer.

Career

Meillard made his World Cup debut at age 18 in the Adelboden giant slalom in January 2015. At the Junior World Championships that March at Hafjell, Norway, he won a bronze medal in the super-G, silver in the giant slalom, and gold in the combined.

In February 2016, Meillard scored his first World Cup points at the Hinterstoder giant slalom, finishing in 27th place, and his first top ten (eighth) came the following week at Kranjska Gora. His first podium was a runner-up in a giant slalom in December 2018 at Saalbach-Hinterglemm, On the same hill the next day, Meillard finished second in the slalom, runner-up to Marcel Hirscher.

At his third World Championships in 2021, Meillard won two bronze medals, in parallel giant slalom and combined, and was fifth in the giant slalom.

World Cup results

Season titles

Season
Discipline
2020Parallel

Season standings

Season
AgeOverallSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super-GDownhillCombinedParallel
19104 38 -->
20
21
2218
231
24rowspan="4"
25
2666616rowspan="2"
272428

Race podiums

Season
DateLocationDisciplinePlace
2019 19 Dec 2018 Saalbach, Austria 2nd
20 Dec 2018 2nd
2020 29 Dec 2019 Bormio, Italy 3rd
2 Feb 2020 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Giant slalom 2nd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"9 Feb 2020 Chamonix, France 1st
2021 9 Jan 2021    Adelboden, Switzerland Giant slalom 3rd
13 Mar 2021 Kranjska Gora, Slovenia Giant slalom 2nd
2022 26 Feb 2022 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 2nd
19 Mar 2022 Méribel, France Giant slalom 3rd
2023 11 Dec 2022 Val d'Isère, France Slalom 3rd
29 Dec 2022 Bormio, Italy 3rd
7 Jan 2023 Giant slalom 3rd
15 Jan 2023    Wengen, Switzerland Slalom 2nd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"25 Jan 2023 Schladming, Austria Giant slalom 1st
2024 27 Jan 2024 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G 3rd
4 Feb 2024 Chamonix, France Slalom 2nd
1 Mar 2024 align=left rowspan=3 Aspen, USA Giant slalom 2nd
2 Mar 2024 Giant slalom 2nd
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"3 Mar 2024 Slalom 1st
align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"16 Mar 2024 align=left rowspan=2 Saalbach, Austria Giant slalom 1st
22 Mar 2024 Super-G 2nd

World Championship results

Year
AgeSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super-GDownhillCombinedParallel
20 rowspan="2"
22
24 3
26

Olympic results

Year
AgeSlalomGiant
Slalom
Super-GDownhillCombined
21
25 DNF2 (SL)

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LOÏC MEILLARD. gps-performance.com. 20 December 2018.