Paul Accola
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Born | (1967-02-20) 20 February 1967 (age 57) Davos, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paul Accola (born 20 February 1967 in Davos) is a Swiss former Alpine skier. He came in first in the overall World Cup in 1992, and won a total of four medals at the Winter Olympics and World Championships in the combined event.
By the end of his career, he won seven world cup victories and was on the podium 26 times, the last time being in 2000. In 2002 Accola suffered a serious ankle injury, breaking both of his talus bones. In February 2005, on his 38th birthday, Accola announced that he would retire as alpine skier after nearly two decades in the sport.
He is the sixth Swiss athlete to compete at five Olympics, after middle-distance runner Paul Martin, equestrians Henri Chammartin and Gustav Fischer, javelin thrower Urs von Wartburg and equestrian Christine Stückelberger.
In 2012, Accola was found not liable by Swiss courts of accidentally running over and killing a child with a riding mower, as he was found to have told the nearby children not to play in the area where he was mowing multiple times.[2]
He is the brother of fellow former alpine skier Martina Accola.[3]
World Cup victories
Date | Location | Race |
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29 November 1991 | Breckenridge | Giant Slalom |
30 November 1991 | Breckenridge | Slalom |
13 January 1992 | Garmisch-Partenkirchen | Combined |
19 January 1992 | Kitzbühel | Combined |
26 January 1992 | Wengen | Combined |
1 February 1992 | Megève | Super-G |
1 March 1992 | Morioka | Super-G |
See also
References
External links
- Paul Accola at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Paul Accola at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
- Paul Accola at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1967: Jean-Claude Killy
- 1968: Jean-Claude Killy
- 1969: Karl Schranz
- 1970: Karl Schranz
- 1971: Gustav Thöni
- 1972: Gustav Thöni
- 1973: Gustav Thöni
- 1974: Piero Gros
- 1975: Gustav Thöni
- 1976: Ingemar Stenmark
- 1977: Ingemar Stenmark
- 1978: Ingemar Stenmark
- 1979: Peter Lüscher
- 1980: Andreas Wenzel
- 1981: Phil Mahre
- 1982: Phil Mahre
- 1983: Phil Mahre
- 1984: Pirmin Zurbriggen
- 1985: Marc Girardelli
- 1986: Marc Girardelli
- 1987: Pirmin Zurbriggen
- 1988: Pirmin Zurbriggen
- 1989: Marc Girardelli
- 1990: Pirmin Zurbriggen
- 1991: Marc Girardelli
- 1992: Paul Accola
- 1993: Marc Girardelli
- 1994: Kjetil André Aamodt
- 1995: Alberto Tomba
- 1996: Lasse Kjus
- 1997: Luc Alphand
- 1998: Hermann Maier
- 1999: Lasse Kjus
- 2000: Hermann Maier
- 2001: Hermann Maier
- 2002: Stephan Eberharter
- 2003: Stephan Eberharter
- 2004: Hermann Maier
- 2005: Bode Miller
- 2006: Benjamin Raich
- 2007: Aksel Lund Svindal
- 2008: Bode Miller
- 2009: Aksel Lund Svindal
- 2010: Carlo Janka
- 2011: Ivica Kostelić
- 2012: Marcel Hirscher
- 2013: Marcel Hirscher
- 2014: Marcel Hirscher
- 2015: Marcel Hirscher
- 2016: Marcel Hirscher
- 2017: Marcel Hirscher
- 2018: Marcel Hirscher
- 2019: Marcel Hirscher
- 2020: Aleksander Aamodt Kilde
- 2021: Alexis Pinturault
- 2022: Marco Odermatt
- 2023: Marco Odermatt
- 2024: Marco Odermatt
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