Perrine Pelen Explained

Perrine Pelen
Country:-->
Disciplines:Slalom, giant slalom, combined
Club:Grenoble University
Birth Date:3 July 1960
Birth Place:Boulogne-Billancourt,
Hauts-de-Seine, France
Height:1.68 m
Weight:56 kg-->
Wcdebut:9 December 1976 (age 16)
Retired:March 1986 (age 25)
Olympicteams:2 – (1980, 1984)
Olympicmedals:3
Olympicgolds:0
Worldsteams:4 – (19781985)
includes 1980 Olympics
Worldsmedals:3
Worldsgolds:1
Wcseasons:10 – (19771986)
Wcwins:15 – (15 SL)
Wcpodiums:43 – (36 SL, 7 GS)
Wcoveralls:0 – (4th in 1980)
Wctitles:1 – (SL, 1980)
Show-Medals:yes

Perrine Marie Pelen (born 3 July 1960) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from France. Born at Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris, she made her World Cup debut at age 16 in December 1976 and won three slalom races that

Pelen won the bronze medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in giant slalom; in 1984, she won the silver medal in slalom and another bronze in giant slalom. At the World Championships, she won the silver medal in combined in 1982 and the gold in slalom in 1985.

Pelen won fifteen World Cup races and the season title in the slalom in the 1980. She was runner-up in the slalom standings in 1977 and 1978, and took third in 1981, 1984, 1985, and 1986.

After ten seasons on the World Cup circuit, Pelen retired from competition following the 1986 season.

Perrine Pelen graduated from HEC Paris in 1988.[1]

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom
Super G Downhill Combined
16 7 2 12 not
run
not
awarded
17 6 2 11
18 9 4 13
19 4 1 2 14
20 6 3 9 8
21 8 5 6 14
22 16 11 16 not
awarded
(w/ GS)
23 10 3 9
24 12 3 19
25 13 3 12 22

Individual races

SeasonDateLocationDiscipline
align=center rowspan=3 1977 align=right 26 Jan 1977 align=center Slalom
align=right 28 Jan 1977 align=center Slalom
align=right 5 Mar 1977 align=center Slalom
align=center rowspan=3 1978 align=right 10 Dec 1977 align=center Slalom
align=right 8 Feb 1978 Saint-Gervais, France align=center Slalom
align=right 5 Mar 1978 Stratton Mountain, USA align=center Slalom
align=center 1979 align=right 18 Mar 1979 align=center Slalom
align=center rowspan=4 1980 align=right 9 Jan 1980 align=center Slalom
align=right 25 Jan 1980 Saint-Gervais, France align=center Slalom
align=right 29 Feb 1980 Waterville Valley, USA align=center Slalom
align=right 8 Mar 1980 align=center Slalom
align=center rowspan=2 1981 align=right 18 Dec 1980 align=center Slalom
align=right 21 Dec 1980 Bormio, Italy align=center Slalom
align=center 1984 align=right 14 Jan 1984 Badgastein, Austria align=center Slalom
align=center 1985 align=right 1 Dec 1984 Courmayeur, Italy align=center Slalom

World Championship results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
17 4 8 not run
19
21 DNF 2
24
From 1948 through 1980, the Winter Olympics were also the World Championships for alpine skiing.
At the World Championships from 1954 through 1980, the combined was a "paper race" using the results of the three events (DH, GS, SL).

Olympic results

  Year    Age   Slalom   Giant 
 Slalom 
Super-G Downhill Combined
19 not run not run
23

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.cadremploi.fr/editorial/conseils/conseils-carriere/detail/article/ils-sont-cadres-et-ont-fait-les-jo-perrine-pelen-triple-medaillee-et-responsable-marketing.html Ils sont cadres et ont fait les JO : Perrine Pelen, triple médaillée et responsable marketing