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Émile Allais

1912 - 2012

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Émile Allais (25 February 1912 – 17 October 2012) was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered to have been the first great French alpine skier. Allais won the bronze medal in the combined (downhill and slalom), the only alpine medal event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch, Germany. These Olympics were the first to award medals in alpine skiing. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Allais is the 34th most popular skier (up from 40th in 2019), the 3,781st most popular biography from France (up from 3,908th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Émile Allais ranks 34 out of 817. Before him are Marit Bjørgen, Marielle Goitschel, Christl Cranz, Torbjørn Falkanger, Kjetil André Aamodt, and Lindsey Vonn. After him are Bojan Križaj, Bernhard Russi, Laila Schou Nilsen, Madeleine Berthod, Tormod Knutsen, and Antti Hyvärinen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Émile Allais ranks 216. Before him are Teuvo Aura, Luiz Gonzaga, Yusuf Lule, Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, Sabicas, and Bojan Adamič. After him are Nam Sung-yong, Ferdinand Leitner, Rudi Fischer, Sabiha Kasimati, István Örkény, and Jaroslav Bouček. Among people deceased in 2012, Émile Allais ranks 219. Before him are Ann Curtis, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Georgi Lozanov, Jack Taylor, James Farentino, and Peter Carsten. After him are Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Leonardo Favio, Txillardegi, R. G. Armstrong, Florence Green, and Mustafa Ould Salek.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Allais ranks 3,781 out of 6,770. Before him are Alain Barrière (1935), Nicole Courcel (1931), Charles Blanc (1813), Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen (1588), Léon-Adolphe Amette (1850), and Jean Echenoz (1947). After him are Édouard Deldevez (1817), Roger de La Fresnaye (1885), Madeleine Pelletier (1874), William IX, Count of Poitiers (1153), Michel Delpech (1946), and Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867).

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Among SKIERS In France

Among skiers born in France, Émile Allais ranks 3. Before him are Jean-Claude Killy (1943), and Marielle Goitschel (1945). After him are Henri Oreiller (1925), François Bonlieu (1937), Christine Goitschel (1944), Luc Alphand (1965), Annie Famose (1944), Léo Lacroix (1937), Perrine Pelen (1960), Michèle Jacot (1952), and Isabelle Mir (1949).

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