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Francisco Fernández Ochoa

1950 - 2006

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Francisco "Paquito" Fernández Ochoa (25 February 1950 – 6 November 2006) was a World Cup alpine ski racer from Spain. Born in Madrid and raised north of the city in Cercedilla, he was the eldest of eight children whose father ran a ski school. Paquito raced in all of the alpine disciplines and specialized in slalom. At the age of 21, he won an Olympic gold medal in the slalom at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francisco Fernández Ochoa is the 41st most popular skier (up from 43rd in 2019), the 1,276th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,280th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Francisco Fernández Ochoa ranks 41 out of 817. Before him are Bojan Križaj, Bernhard Russi, Laila Schou Nilsen, Madeleine Berthod, Tormod Knutsen, and Antti Hyvärinen. After him are Baldur Preiml, Alevtina Kolchina, Galina Kulakova, Vreni Schneider, Egon Zimmermann, and Henri Oreiller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Francisco Fernández Ochoa ranks 308. Before him are Savo Kostadinovski, Christine Lahti, Jill Stein, Julie Kavner, Frank Silva, and Robert Z'Dar. After him are Ronald McNair, Richard Berry, George Yonashiro, Knut Knudsen, Héctor Baley, and Melissa Mathison. Among people deceased in 2006, Francisco Fernández Ochoa ranks 215. Before him are Shigeru Kayano, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Betty Curtis, Desmond Dekker, Mirko Marjanović, and André Schwarz-Bart. After him are Ted Schroeder, Akira Ifukube, Gert Fredriksson, Kazimierz Górski, Sven Axbom, and Georgios Rallis.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Fernández Ochoa ranks 1,276 out of 3,355. Before him are Pasqual Maragall (1941), Conchita Supervía (1895), Antonio Moreno (1887), Rodrigo Rato (1949), Ruperto Chapí (1851), and Úrsula Corberó (1989). After him are Rafael Lesmes (1926), Arsenio Iglesias (1930), Paco Bienzobas (1909), David Ferrer (1982), José Araquistáin (1937), and Martí Vergés (1934).

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Among SKIERS In Spain

Among skiers born in Spain, Francisco Fernández Ochoa ranks 1. After him are Blanca Fernández Ochoa (1963), and María José Rienda Contreras (1975).

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