Marie Bochet
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9 February 1994
.JPG) Bochet in 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Marie Isabelle Élise Bochet 9 February 1994 Chambéry, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Alpine skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Downhill Slalom Giant slalom Super combined Super-G | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Marie Isabelle Élise Bochet (French pronunciation: [maʁi bɔʃɛ]; born 2 February 1994) is a French alpine skier and Paralympic champion. She has won a total of 8 gold medals across four Winter Paralympic Games, and a further 22 gold medals across six World Championships.
Bochet was born in Chambéry in the French Alps in 1994 to Yvon and Françoise, both cheesemakers. She was five when she started skiing.[1] She has a disability, as her left forearm suffers from agenesis.
She competed at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver but did not make the podium. She skied at the 2011 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships and was the second skier to finish in the standing women's downhill race and the Super-G.[2]
Bochet competed in the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, where she won four gold medals.[3]
At the 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, Bochet won four further gold medals. At the Pyeongchang Games, she was elected a member of the International Paralympic Committee and joined the athlete's commission. She is also a member of the athlete's commission for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
