Chimene "Chemmy" Mary Alcott (born July 10, 1982, in
Twickenham,
Middlesex,
Greater London) is the current female
British number one
alpine ski racer, and competes on the
World Cup circuit in all five disciplines:
downhill,
super G,
giant slalom,
slalom, and
combined.
Alcott has competed in three
Winter Olympic Games and six
FIS World Championships. She is the five-time Overall Senior British National Champion (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008).
She suffered a broken leg in training in
Canada on December 2, 2010, and is out of competition for the
2011 World Cup season.
Early life
Alcott is named after
Sophia Loren's character in the film
El Cid. She started skiing at 18 months old on a family holiday in
Flaine, France and first raced at the age of three.
In 1993 Alcott won the Etoile D'Or French Village Ski Championship, becoming 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 eleven to nineteen, Alcott travelled to New Zealand in order to train in the
antipodean winter.
Aged twelve, Alcott broke her neck in a skiing accident, recovering with two of her
vertebrae fused together. She still carries
x-rays of the injury so that if she is ever in an accident, the...
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