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Born in Morgins, Valais, Défago made his World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1996, and was Swiss national champion in downhill (2003) and giant slalom (2004).!

Born in Morgins, where the Swiss Alps meet those of France, Didier Defago was led along the path to a career in Alpine skiing by the.

  • Didier Défago.
  • Born in Morgins, Valais, Défago made his World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1996, and was Swiss national champion in downhill (2003) and giant slalom (2004).
  • FIS Code 510727; Birthdate 1977; Status Not active.
  • The 45-year-old from Morgins is trained as a draughtsman, and was a World Cup competitor between 1996 and 2015.

    • Didier Défago

    Swiss alpine skier

    Didier Défago (born 2 October ) is a Swiss retired World Cupalpine ski racer.

    Born in Morgins, Valais, Défago made his World Cup debut at age 18 in March , and was Swiss national champion in downhill () and giant slalom ().

    At the Winter Olympics, he won the downhill at Whistler to become the Olympic champion.[1]

    Défago finished the World Cup season as sixth overall and fourth in the Super-G, his most successful season so far.

    In he won two downhill races in a row, the classics at Wengen and Kitzbühel.[2] He was the first to win these in consecutive weeks since Stephan Eberharter in , and the first Swiss racer since Franz Heinzer in

    While training on a glacier above Zermatt in mid-September , Defago fell and injured ligaments in his left knee, ending his season.[3]

    Défago announced his retirement in March , after a second-place finish at the World Cup finals in the downhill in Méribel, France, and had his f