Françoise Macchi
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Françoise Macchi is a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 former alpine skier
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...

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Macchi was born at Le Sentier
Le Sentier
Le Sentier is a village in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Part of the municipality Le Chenit, the village has 3,000 inhabitants....

, Switzerland
Switzerland
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. She married the fellow skier Jean-Noël Augert
Jean-Noël Augert
Jean-Noël Augert is a French former alpine skier.Augert was born in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and grew at the La Toussuire ski resort, Savoy. he debuted in the Alpine Skiing World Cup with a victory, at the Adelboden giant slalom...

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World cup victories

Date Location Race
11 December 1968   Val-d'Isère  Giant Slalom
10 December 1969   Val-d'Isère Giant Slalom
24 January 1970   Saint-Gervais
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.The village is best known for tourism, and has been a popular holiday destination because of its beauty and location since the Early 1900's....

 
Giant Slalom
30 January 1970   Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
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Downhill
12 December 1970   Bardonecchia
Bardonecchia
Bardonecchia is an Italian town and comune located in the Province of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley....

 
Downhill
5 January 1971   Maribor
Maribor
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Giant Slalom
18 December 1971   Sestriere
Sestriere
Sestriere is an alpine village in Italy, a comune of the Province of Turin. It is from the French border. Its name derives from Latin: ad petram sistrariam, that is at sixty Roman miles from Turin....

 
Slalom
3 January 1972   Oberstaufen
Oberstaufen
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Giant Slalom
4 January 1972   Oberstaufen Slalom
7 January 1972   Maribor Giant Slalom
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