France at the 1968 Winter Olympics
# France at the 1968 Winter Olympics

France was the host nation for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. It was the second time that France had hosted the Winter Olympic Games (after the 1924 Games in Chamonix), and the fourth time overall (after the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics, both in Paris).

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event |
| - | - | - | - |
| Gold | Jean-Claude Killy | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
| Gold | Jean-Claude Killy | Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom |
| Gold | Jean-Claude Killy | Alpine skiing | Men's slalom |
| Gold | Marielle Goitschel | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
| Silver | Guy Périllat | Alpine skiing | Men's downhill |
| Silver | Isabelle Mir | Alpine skiing | Women's downhill |
| Silver | Annie Famose | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom |
| Bronze | Annie Famose | Alpine skiing | Women's slalom |
| Bronze | Patrick Pera | Figure skating | Men's singles |

## Alpine skiing

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Léo Lacroix | Downhill | | | | | 2:03.86 | 20 |
| Bernard Orcel | Downhill | | | | | 2:02.22 | 8 |
| Guy Périllat | Downhill | | | | | 1:59.93 | |
| Jean-Claude Killy | Downhill | | | | | 1:59.85 | |
| Bernard Orcel | Giant Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Georges Mauduit | Giant Slalom | 1:44.86 | 4 | 1:48.92 | 12 | 3:33.78 | 9 |
| Guy Périllat | Giant Slalom | 1:44.78 | 3 | 1:47.28 | 5 | 3:32.06 | 4 |
| Jean-Claude Killy | Giant Slalom | 1:42.74 | 1 | 1:46.54 | 2 | 3:29.28 | |

### Men's slalom

| Athlete | Heat 1 | Heat 1 | Heat 2 | Heat 2 | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time 1 | Rank | Time 2 | Rank | Total | Rank |
| Jean-Pierre Augert | 52.10 | 3 | 54.91 | 1 QF | 51.32 | 17 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Guy Périllat | 57.71 | 3 | 55.37 | 1 QF | 49.89 | 6 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Alain Penz | 54.63 | 2 QF | – | – | 49.89 | 6 | 51.25 | 11 | 1:41.14 | 8 |
| Jean-Claude Killy | 49.89 | 1 QF | – | – | 49.37 | 1 | 50.36 | 4 | 1:39.73 | |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Florence Steurer | Downhill | | | | | 1:43.00 | 9 |
| Marielle Goitschel | Downhill | | | | | 1:42.95 | 8 |
| Annie Famose | Downhill | | | | | 1:42.15 | 5 |
| Isabelle Mir | Downhill | | | | | 1:41.33 | |
| Marielle Goitschel | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:56.09 | 7 |
| Isabelle Mir | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:56.07 | 6 |
| Florence Steurer | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:54.75 | 4 |
| Annie Famose | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:54.61 | |
| Florence Steurer | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Annie Famose | Slalom | 42.21 | 7 | 45.68 | 3 | 1:27.89 | |
| Isabelle Mir | Slalom | 42.14 | 6 | 46.08 | 4 | 1:28.22 | 5 |
| Marielle Goitschel | Slalom | 40.27 | 2 | 45.59 | 2 | 1:25.86 | |

## Biathlon

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 20 km | Guy Daraffourg | 1'23:51.4 | 18 | 1'41:51.4 | 58 |
| 20 km | Louis Romand | 1'25:55.2 | 12 | 1'37:55.2 | 57 |
| 20 km | Aimé Gruet-Masson | 1'20:50.4 | 11 | 1'31:50.4 | 42 |
| 20 km | Jean-Claude Viry | 1'19:16.2 | 10 | 1'29:16.2 | 35 |

    $^1$ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

### Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Athletes | Misses $^2$ | Time | Rank |
| Daniel Claudon Serge Legrand Aimé Gruet-Masson Jean-Claude Viry | 10 | 2'31:12.9 | 10 |

    $^2$ A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| FRA-1 | Bertrand Croset Henri Sirvain | Two-man | 1:12.36 | 15 | 1:12.79 | 16 | 1:12.35 | 11 | 1:13.78 | 20 | 4:51.28 | 16 |
| FRA-2 | Gérard Christaud-Pipola Jacques Christaud-Pipola | Two-man | 1:11.24 | 6 | 1:34.47 | 20 | 1:12.49 | 13 | 1:13.47 | 18 | 5:11.67 | 20 |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| FRA-1 | Francis Luiggi André Patey Gérard Monrazel Maurice Grether | Four-man | 1:10.65 | 7 | 1:08.19 | 7 | 2:18.84 | 7 |
| FRA-2 | Bertrand Croset Claude Roussel Louis Courtois Henri Sirvain | Four-man | 1:11.11 | 12 | 1:08.61 | 11 | 2:19.72 | 11 |

## Cross-country skiing

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Jean Jobez | 53:22.1 | 46 |
| 15 km | Félix Mathieu | 52:58.8 | 44 |
| 15 km | Victor Arbez | 51:20.5 | 28 |
| 15 km | Roger Pires | 50:52.6 | 24 |
| 30 km | Roger Pires | 1'45:54.6 | 43 |
| 30 km | Luc Colin | 1'45:40.7 | 42 |
| 30 km | Philippe Baradel | 1'45:33.3 | 41 |
| 30 km | Jean Jobez | 1'45:08.8 | 39 |
| 50 km | Luc Colin | 2'48:57.9 | 44 |
| 50 km | Claude Legrand | 2'45:36.9 | 41 |
| 50 km | Fernand Borrel | 2'45:10.6 | 40 |
| 50 km | Roger Pires | 2'36:48.8 | 24 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| - | - | - |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Félix Mathieu Victor Arbez Philippe Baradel Roger Pires | 2'21:23.0 | 11 |

## Figure skating

### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jacques Mrozek | 18 | 20 | 1601.0 | 179 | 20 |
| Philippe Pélissier | 14 | 12 | 1706.0 | 114 | 13 |
| Patrick Péra | 3 | 7 | 1864.5 | 31 | |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sylvaine Duban | 19 | 29 | 1551.4 | 219 | 27 |
| Micheline Joubert | 28 | 15 | 1594.8 | 182 | 20 |

## Ice hockey

### Consolation round

Teams in this group play for 9th-14th places. France entered in this round, from the start, they did not play for a medal.

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 9 | Yugoslavia | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 9 | 10 |
| 10 | Japan | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 8 |
| 11 | Norway | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 6 |
| 12 | Romania | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 23 | 4 |
| 13 | Austria | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 27 | 2 |
| 14 | France | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 32 | 0 |

Norway – France 4:1 (1:1, 2:0, 1:0) Goalscorers: Hagensen, Smefjell, Dalsören, Mikkelsen – Liberman.

France – Romania 3:7 (0:2, 0:2, 3:3) Goalscorers: Itzicsohn, Mazza, Lacarriere – Iuliu Szabo 2, Florescu 2, Pana, Geza Szabo, Stefan.

France – Austria 2:5 (0:1, 2:3, 0:1) Goalscorers: Faucomprez, Caux – Puschnig 2, Kirchbaumer, St. John, Schupp.

France – Yugoslavia 1:10 (0:6, 0:1, 1:3) Goalscorers: Itzicsohn – Tisler 3, Ivo Jan 2, Felc 2, Beravs, Roman Smolej, Hiti.

France – Japan 2:6 (0:0, 0:4, 2:2) Goalscorers: Mazza, Faucomprez – Ebina 2, Hikigi, Itoh, Okajima, Araki.

### Contestants

14. FRANCE Goaltenders: Jean-Claude Sozzi, Bernard Deschamps Defence: Joel Godeau, Claude Blanchard, Philippe Lacarriere, René Blanchard, Joel Gauvin

Forwards: Bernard Cabanis, Gerard Faucomprez, Alain Mazza, Olivier Prechac, Gilbert Lepre, Patrick Pourtanel, Michel Caux, Gilbert Itzicsohn, Daniel Grando, Patrick Francheterre, Charles Liberman.

## Luge

### Men

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Ion Pervilhac | 1:01.98 | 38 | 1:02.99 | 40 | 1:01.45 | 37 | 3:06.42 | 38 |
| Jean-Pierre De Petro | 1:01.03 | 36 | 1:01.24 | 34 | 1:01.26 | 35 | 3:03.53 | 35 |
| Georges Tresallet | 59.75 | 28 | 1:00.41 | 31 | 1:00.21 | 30 | 3:00.37 | 29 |

(Men's) Doubles

| Athletes | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athletes | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Georges Tresallet Ion Pervilhac | 49.97 | 11 | 49.29 | 9 | 1:39.26 | 11 |

### Women

| Athlete | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Jacqueline Barasinski | 51.96 | 20 | 52.39 | 21 | 52.44 | 20 | 2:36.79 | 20 |
| Sylvette Grassi | 51.85 | 17 | 52.08 | 20 | 52.55 | 21 | 2:36.48 | 19 |

## Nordic combined

Events:

* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing

| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Jean-Marie Bourgeois | Individual | 53.5 | 52.5 | 111.4 | 40 | 50:18.0 | 214.50 | 9 | 325.90 | 38 |
| Émile Salvi | Individual | 63.0 | 63.0 | 158.6 | 39 | 53:44.3 | 173.78 | 32 | 332.38 | 37 |
| Gervais Poirot | Individual | 53.0 | 53.0 | 102.4 | 41 | 50:22.2 | 213.58 | 10 | 315.98 | 41 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Distance | Points | Points | Rank |
| Michel Saint Lezer | Normal hill | 67.0 | 85.0 | 64.0 | 79.7 | 164.7 | 50 |
| Maurice Arbez | Normal hill | 70.0 | 91.3 | 68.5 | 87.4 | 178.7 | 41 |
| Alain Macle | Normal hill | 74.0 | 104.2 | 72.5 | 99.8 | 204.0 | 18 |
| Gilbert Poirot | Normal hill | 76.5 | 106.7 | 73.5 | 100.4 | 207.1 | 10 |
| Michel Saint Lezer | Large hill | 85.5 | 80.6 | 76.0 | 62.3 | 142.9 | 54 |
| Maurice Arbez | Large hill | 87.0 | 83.2 | 79.0 | 66.0 | 149.2 | 50 |
| Alain Macle | Large hill | 89.5 | 93.7 | 93.5 | 100.3 | 194.0 | 17 |
| Gilbert Poirot | Large hill | 97.0 | 103.7 | 94.0 | 100.0 | 203.7 | 10 |

## Speed skating

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | François Perrenoud | 44.1 | 46 |
| 500 m | Michel Thépénier | 43.8 | 45 |
| 1500 m | François Perrenoud | 2:14.0 | 37 |
| 1500 m | Michel Thépénier | 2:13.7 | 36 |
| 5000 m | François Perrenoud | 8:07.5 | 31 |
| 5000 m | Michel Thépénier | 8:06.2 | 30 |
| 10,000 m | François Perrenoud | 17:10.2 | 26 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Martine Ivangine | 48.5 | 22 |
| 500 m | Marie-Louise Perrenoud | 48.2 | 19 |
| 1000 m | Patricia Demartini | 1:44.6 | 28 |
| 1000 m | Marie-Louise Perrenoud | 1:39.3 | 24 |
| 1000 m | Martine Ivangine | 1:37.4 | 17 |
| 1500 m | Patricia Demartini | 2:40.6 | 29 |
| 1500 m | Marie-Louise Perrenoud | 2:39.2 | 28 |
| 1500 m | Martine Ivangine | 2:29.9 | 14 |
| 3000 m | Marie-Louise Perrenoud | 5:41.7 | 25 |
| 3000 m | Martine Ivangine | 5:19.3 | 15 |
