Fernande Bochatay
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Born | Les Marécottes, Valais, Switzerland | 23 January 1946|||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 57 kg (126 lb) | |||||||||||
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Sport | Alpine skiing | |||||||||||
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Fernande Bochatay (born 23 January 1946) is a former Swiss alpine skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in Giant slalom.[1]
Bochatay was the aunt of Swiss speed skier Nicolas Bochatay, who was killed on a training run at the 1992 Winter Olympics. She married in 1968 and next year retired from competitions. The year after she gave birth to her first child, and two more followed later. She was still skiing in her late sixties with her grandchildren.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Fernande Bochatay. sports-reference.com
- ^ Jacques Wullschleger (10 April 2012). Fernande Bochatay : une jeune dame de 66 ans
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- 1946 births
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- Swiss female alpine skiers
- Olympic bronze medalists for Switzerland
- Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
- Skiers from Valais
- 20th-century Swiss sportswomen
- Swiss alpine skiing biography stubs