39 Facts About Chemmy Alcott

Chemmy Alcott competed in all five disciplines: downhill, super G, giant slalom, slalom and combined.

Chemmy Alcott retired from international competition following the 2014 season.

Chemmy Alcott started skiing at 18 months old on a family holiday in Flaine, France, and first raced at the age of three.

In 1993, Chemmy Alcott won the Etoile D'Or French Village Ski Championship, became a member of the British Junior Alpine team in 1994 and won the 1995 Sunday Times Junior Sportswoman of the Year award.

Every British summer from the age of 11 to 19 Chemmy Alcott travelled to New Zealand to train in the winter.

Chemmy Alcott was a talented athlete, representing Richmond in dry slope skiing, and in tennis at the London Youth Games.

Chemmy Alcott was inducted into the London Youth Games Hall of Fame in 2011.

Aged 11, Chemmy Alcott broke her neck in a skiing accident, recovering with two vertebrae fused together.

Chemmy Alcott still carries X-rays of the injury so that if she is ever in an accident, the hospital will know not to prise the vertebrae apart.

Chemmy Alcott made her FIS race debut in August 1997 in a Giant slalom event at Coronet Peak, New Zealand.

In December 1999, Chemmy Alcott made her World Cup debut in a giant slalom race in Lienz, Austria.

At the 2001 Junior World Championships, Chemmy Alcott finished 8th in the slalom event on her way to 5th in the overall classification.

At 19 years of age, Chemmy Alcott was ranked in the Top 10 in the world for her age group, while rising from 683rd to 126th in the downhill rankings over the course of the season.

Chemmy Alcott competed in all of the Alpine disciplines with a best result of 14th position in the combined event.

Later in the season, Chemmy Alcott returned to the Junior World Championships, finishing in 4th place based on overall championship points.

In March 2003, Chemmy Alcott scored her first World Cup points by finishing 27th in a GS event in Innsbruck, Austria.

At the British National Championships in Tignes, France, Chemmy Alcott won the slalom title for the first time on her way to a clean sweep of all the discipline titles.

In January 2004, Chemmy Alcott achieved her first top-10 result, a 9th-place finish in the Cortina downhill.

However, a knee ligament injury meant that Chemmy Alcott was unable to defend her British titles.

At the 2005 World Championships, Chemmy Alcott finished 19th in the downhill, 22nd in the super-G and 35th in the giant slalom.

Chemmy Alcott recorded 19th and 22nd-place finishes in the super-G and giant slalom events, respectively.

However, it was decided to award the Senior downhill title using the results of the previous day's Junior race, in which Chemmy Alcott did not compete.

Chemmy Alcott began the 2007 season with two 13th-place finishes in the first two downhills of the season at Lake Louise and an 11th-place finish in the super-G at the Canadian resort.

Chemmy Alcott finished 9th in the Tarvisio Downhill and had four top-20 results in Giant slalom, qualifying Chemmy Alcott for her first World Cup Finals, where she placed 15th in the giant slalom.

At the British Alpine Championships in Meribel, Chemmy Alcott won all four titles on offer: the downhill, super G, giant slalom, and slalom events.

Chemmy Alcott had a relatively poor 2008 World Cup season, except for 16th and 17th-place finishes in the downhill and super combined events at St Anton and a 16th-place finish in the GS race in Maribor, Slovenia.

At the British Championships in Meribel, France, Chemmy Alcott won the downhill, super-G, giant slalom, and slalom titles.

Chemmy Alcott finished second to 19-year-old Louise Thomas in the super combined.

The Championships saw Chemmy Alcott take the Overall title for the fifth time.

Chemmy Alcott finished 10th in the opening giant slalom of the season in Solden, Austria.

On her return to action, Chemmy Alcott finished 15th in the GS at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and then 21st in the super-G at Garmisch the following weekend.

At the 2009 World Championships, Alcott finished 21st in the-super G In the following event, the super combined, Alcott had to restart her downhill run after approximately one minute due to a fall by the previous competitor, Frida Hansdotter.

Chemmy Alcott won all five races at the British National Championships, downhill, super-G, giant slalom, slalom, and super combined titles.

Chemmy Alcott sustained a double fracture of her right leg when she crashed training for the World Cup downhill race at Lake Louise, Canada, on 2 December 2010, and consequently missed the entire 2011 skiing season.

Chemmy Alcott has previously appeared on Channel 4's World Cup Skiing programme, with a regular feature called Fit to Ski, in which she demonstrated different exercise techniques.

In January 2012 it was announced that Chemmy Alcott would take part in the ITV programme Dancing on Ice.

In June 2008, Chemmy Alcott climbed Mount Kilimanjaro along with fellow ski racers Julia Mancuso and Laurenne Ross, and Chemmy Alcott's then boyfriend Mark Weaver.

Chemmy Alcott is a motor sport fan; has an MSA Competition Licence and competed in the 2012 Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge race.

In October 2013, the BBC reported that Chemmy Alcott was to marry her current boyfriend, and fellow alpine ski racer, Dougie Crawford.