Didier Cuche was born on 16 August 1974 and is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.
16 Facts About Didier Cuche
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Didier Cuche won the World Cup downhill and super-G title for the 2011 season and has won three previous downhill titles in 2010,2008 and 2007, along with a giant slalom title in 2009.
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Didier Cuche is an Olympic silver medalist and has won a total of four World Championships medals.
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At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Didier Cuche was the silver medalist in the super-G, where he had exactly the same time as Hans Knauss resulting in a rare sharing of the medal.
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Didier Cuche switched from Atomic to Head skis following the 2006 season, joining Bode Miller and Hermann Maier.
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Didier Cuche repeated as the World Cup downhill season champion in 2008 with 584 points, five ahead of overall champion Bode Miller.
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Didier Cuche finished third overall and nearly won the super-G season title, finishing a single point behind champion Hannes Reichelt.
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At the 2009 World Championships in Val-d'Isere, France, Didier Cuche won the super-G and was the silver medalist in the downhill.
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Didier Cuche had a disappointing Olympics and did not win any medal; however, he regained the title of World Cup downhill champion for the 2010 season at the first post-Olympic race.
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Until 2010, Didier Cuche had never won more than two World Cup events in a single season.
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Didier Cuche has since added a fifth victory in Kitzbuhel to his tally, thus becoming the sole record holder; Klammer was there to congratulate him at the finish.
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Didier Cuche ended the 2011 World Cup season in first-place ranking in downhill and super-G, finishing second in the overall rankings to Ivica Kostelic.
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On 19 January 2012 Didier Cuche announced his retirement for the end of the 2012 season.
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Didier Cuche gave his retirement speech in Kitzbuhel during which he stated that he wanted to "leave the World Cup stage on a high".
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Only two days later, Didier Cuche won the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbuhel for the fifth time in his career, including his first World Cup win in 1998.
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Didier Cuche won the Swiss Sports Personality of the Year in 2009 and 2011.