Mélanie Meillard
Mélanie Meillard (born 23 September 1998) is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer,[1] who specialises in the technical events of Slalom and Giant slalom. Meillard made her World Cup debut at age 17 in December 2015; her older brother Loïc is also a World Cup alpine racer.
In December 2019 and January 2020, Meillard attempted a comeback, but ended the season after three races without a countable result. She finally managed to return to the top of the world at the beginning of the 2020/21 season, when she finished ninth in the Levi slalom. At the end of the season, she was able to win the Swiss championship title in the slalom for the second time after 2017 at the end of March. In the giant slalom she finished in 3rd place.[2]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 18 | 29 | 10 | 20 | — | — | — |
| 2018 | 19 | 19 | 8 | 16 | — | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | injured | |||||
| 2020 | 21 | ||||||
| 2021 | 22 | 60 | 25 | 35 | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | 89 | 34 | — | — | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | 69 | 28 | — | — | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | 38 | 14 | 36 | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 26 | 26 | 8 | — | — | — | — |
Race podiums
- 1 podium – (1 PS)
- 9 top fives, 28 top tens
| Season | Date | Location | Discipline | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 Jan 2018 |  Oslo, Norway |
Parallel slalom | 3rd |
World Championship results
| Year | Age | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Team Combined |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 18 | DSQ1 | 13 | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 22 | DNF2 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2025 | 26 | DNF2 | — | — | — | — | 15 |
References
- ^ "Profile". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
- ^ "Mélanie Meillard beendet die Saison vorzeitig | NZZ". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 27 October 2022.
External links
- Mélanie Meillard at FIS (alpine)
- Mélanie Meillard at Olympedia
- Mélanie Meillard at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database
- Swiss Ski team – official site – (in German)
- Official website – (in French)
