Cortina d’Ampezzo Mathieu Faivre: GEPA footage
October 15 — French big slalom star Mathieu Faivre has retired from aggressive ski racing, asserting his choice at this time on social media.
Faivre, a key determine in a profitable technology of French skiers that included Alexis Pinturault, Victor Muffat-Jeandet, and Jean-Baptiste Grange, demonstrated his big slalom mastery throughout many seasons. At present, he confirmed that his racing profession has come to an finish.
World Championships Report
On the 2021 World Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Faivre stole the present within the males’s occasions. He received gold in each the GS and particular person parallel.
These titles marked his first particular person World Championship medals, following his group parallel gold in St. Moritz in 2017.
In complete, he captured three World Championship gold medals throughout 5 championships, spanning from Schladming in 2013 to Courchevel/Méribel in 2023.
World Cup Success
All through his World Cup profession, Faivre earned 10 podiums and two victories. He additionally took Olympic GS bronze in 2022, ending behind Zan Kranjec and general chief Marco Odermatt.
His World Cup wins carried particular that means. At age 25, he earned his first World Cup victory on dwelling snow at Val d’Isère’s well-known Face de Bellevarde in 2016. His second win—and penultimate podium—got here in Bansko, Bulgaria, in 2021. On each events, his teammate Pinturault completed third.
Faivre additionally completed second within the 2016–17 general GS standings, only one level forward of Pinturault and behind the nice Marcel Hirscher.
What He Mentioned
In his video message, Faivre mirrored on the choice to retire, saying,
“The choice wasn’t straightforward to take, for it was an entire life devoted to snowboarding and to fulfilling my childhood desires.
The journey has been crammed with reminiscences and encounters, with exhausting work and self-sacrifice, with suspended moments and deep doubts, with successes that made all of the failures worthwhile.”
Why Now
In latest seasons, Faivre discovered it more and more tough to complete inside the highest 30. With a youthful technology of French skiers rising, incomes a World Cup begin place was now not assured. At 33, securing considered one of 4 French Olympic spots for Bormio in 2026 would have been a significant problem.
Olympic Report
Throughout three Olympic Video games, Faivre all the time completed inside the highest 30. He positioned twenty fourth in Sochi (2014), seventh in Pyeongchang (2018), and captured a podium end in Beijing (2022).
Merci, Mathieu.
Info for this story was sourced from Ski-db.com and Mathieu Faivre’s official Instagram account.
