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Émile Allais

1912 - 2012

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Émile Allais (25 February 1912 – 17 October 2012) was a champion alpine ski racer from France; he won all three events at the 1937 world championships in Chamonix and the gold in the combined in 1938. Born in Megève, he was a dominant racer in the late 1930s and is considered to have been the first great French alpine skier. Allais won the bronze medal in the combined (downhill and slalom), the only alpine medal event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch, Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Allais has received more than 38,188 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Émile Allais is the 40th most popular skier (up from 45th in 2019), the 3,907th most popular biography from France (down from 3,805th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Émile Allais ranks 40 out of 817. Before him are Sonja Edström, Kjetil André Aamodt, Christl Cranz, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Anderl Molterer, and Alevtina Kolchina. After him are Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Hedy Schlunegger, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Bojan Križaj, Marit Bjørgen, and Vegard Ulvang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Émile Allais ranks 218. Before him are Alfred Deller, Sabiha Kasimati, Carlos Guastavino, George Devol, Agnes Martin, and Otto Siffling. After him are Heikki A. Alikoski, Peter Walker, Leonardo Cilaurren, Julián Berrendero, Saadat Hasan Manto, and Niginho. Among people deceased in 2012, Émile Allais ranks 229. Before him are Takeshi Urata, Claude Miller, Ulu Grosbard, Paul Pietsch, Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Emmanuel Scheffer. After him are William Windom, R. G. Armstrong, Marie Colvin, André Simon, Dara Singh, and John Christopher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Allais ranks 3,907 out of 6,770. Before him are Yann LeCun (1960), Denis Lavant (1961), Joseph Ducreux (1735), Jane Dieulafoy (1851), Marcel Moyse (1889), and Abel Bonnard (1883). After him are Bernard Cazeneuve (1963), Lili Damita (1904), Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau (1850), Albert Ayat (1875), and Robert Herbin (1939).

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Among SKIERS In France

Among skiers born in France, Émile Allais ranks 2. Before him are Jean-Claude Killy (1943). After him are Marielle Goitschel (1945), Henri Oreiller (1925), Christine Goitschel (1944), François Bonlieu (1937), Luc Alphand (1965), Léo Lacroix (1937), Perrine Pelen (1960), Annie Famose (1944), Michèle Jacot (1952), and Régine Cavagnoud (1970).

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