Chemmy Alcott

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chimene Chemmy Mary Alcott born 10 July 1982, in Twickenham, Middlesex, Greater London is the current female British number one Alpine skier. She is an all-round racer, competing in the Downhill, Super G, Classic Combined/Super Combined, Giant Slalom and Slalom events. Alcott has competed in three Winter Olympic Games and six Senior FIS Alpine Ski World Championships. She is also a five-time Overall Senior British National Champion 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008. 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.... Mehr