{{short description|French alpine skier}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox alpine ski racer |name = Thomas Fanara |image = Portrait Ski FANARA.jpg |image_size = 210 |caption = Fanara, c. 2009 |disciplines = Giant slalom |club = Douanes – <br>C.S. Praz-sur-Arly |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|4|24|df=y}} |birth_place = Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France |death_date = <!--{{Death date and age|20YY|MM|DD|1981|4|24|df=y}} --> |death_place = |height = 170 cm |wcdebut = 11 January 2005 (age 23) |retired = 16 March 2019 (age 37) |website = |olympicteams = 3 – (2006, 2014, 2018) <!-- injured in 2010 --> |olympicmedals = 0 |olympicgolds = |worldsteams = 6 – (2007–15, 2019) |worldsmedals = 1 (1 gold) |worldsgolds = |wcseasons = 15 – (2005–2019) |wcwins = 1 – (1 GS) <!-- 1 thru 24 Feb 2019) --> |wcpodiums = 14 – (14 GS) <!-- 14 thru 24 Feb 2019) --> |wcoveralls = 0 – ''(23rd in 2016)'' |wctitles = 0 – ''(4th in GS, 2014)'' |medals = {{Medal|Sport|Men's alpine skiing}} {{MedalCountry|{{FRA}}}} {{Medal|Competition|World Championships}} {{Medal|Gold|2011 Garmisch|Team event}} |show-medals = yes }}
'''Thomas Fanara''' (born 24 April 1981) is a former French World Cup alpine ski racer.
Born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, Fanara specialised in giant slalom; his only win came in March 2016 at the giant slalom finals in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He is the oldest racer to reach a World Cup podium in giant slalom, and competed for France at three Winter Olympics and six World Championships. He retired from competition at the end of the 2018–19 season.<ref name=retire />
==World Cup== Fanara has started over 70 World cup races, mostly in giant slalom but also in slalom, and has been on the podium fourteen times.<ref name="FIS|S=AL|ID=16412">{{FIS|S=AL|ID=16412}}</ref> For some time he held the record for most World Cup podium finishes without a win until his victory at the World Cup finals in St. Moritz in 2016.<ref name=retire>{{cite web |url=https://www.fis-ski.com/en/alpine-skiing/alpine-news-multimedia/news-multimedia/news/2018-19/1-january/vonn-svindal-and-other-athletes-decided-to-retire-after-this-season |title=Vonn, Svindal and other athletes decide to retire after this season |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=28 January 2019 |publisher=International Ski Federation |access-date=16 March 2019}}</ref> In December 2007, he fell and hurt himself in the second run after winning the first run of a race in Bad Kleinkirchheim, but finished. Two years later in December 2009, Fanara incurred a season-ending injury to his left knee after a spectacular fall during a race in Beaver Creek,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgPOFmLLHIw Thomas Fanara Sturz Beaver Creek 06.12.2009</ref><ref name=groowo>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/espn/wire?section=skiing&id=4724971 |publisher=ESPN |title=Alpine skiing – Injured Grange out of Winter Olympics |agency=Reuters |last=Assier |first=Andre |date=8 December 2009 |access-date=13 January 2014}}</ref><ref name=gwmol>{{cite journal|url=http://skiracing.com/stories/grange-will-miss-olympics/ |journal=Ski Racing |title=Grange will miss Olympics |last=McKee |first=Hank |date=10 December 2009 |accessdate=13 January 2014}}</ref> two months before the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Following his World Cup win in St. Moritz, Fanara suffered an injury which kept him out of competition for the 2016–17 season. However, he subsequently made a successful return, taking a number of podium finished in his final season.<ref name=retire />
===Season standings=== {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;" !Season !! Age !! Overall !! Slalom !! Giant<br>slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined |- | 2005 || ''23'' || 136 || — || 54 || — || — || — |- | 2006 || ''24'' || 59 || — || 18 || — || — || — |- | 2007 || ''25'' || 78 || — || 17 || — || — || — |- | 2008 || ''26'' || 83 || — || 25 || — || — || — |- | 2009 || ''27'' || 48 || — || 13 || — || — || — |- | 2010 || ''28'' || 138 || — || 50 || — || — || — |- | 2011 || ''29'' || 37 || — || 6 || — || — || — |- | 2012 || ''30'' || 48 || — || 12 || — || — || — |- | 2013 || ''31'' || 29 || — || 5 || — || — || — |- | 2014 || ''32'' || 29 || — || 4 || — || — || — |- | 2015 || ''33'' || 27 || — || 5 || — || — || — |- | 2016 || ''34'' || 23 || — || 6 || — || — || — |- | 2017 || ''35'' || 73 || — || 23 || — || — || — |- | 2018 || ''36'' || 60 || — || 18 || — || — || — |- | 2019 || ''37'' || 30 || — || 7 || — || — || — |} :{{small|Standings through 24 February 2019}}
===Race podiums=== * 1 win – (1 GS) * 14 podiums – (14 GS) <!--14 thru 24 Feb 2019--> {|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;" ! Season ! Date ! Location ! Discipline ! Place |- | rowspan=2|'''2011''' || align=right|19 Dec 2010 || align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} Alta Badia, Italy || Giant slalom || 3rd |- | align=right|8 Jan 2011 || align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}} Adelboden, Switzerland || Giant slalom || 3rd |- | '''2013''' || align=right|16 Dec 2012 || align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} Alta Badia, Italy || Giant slalom || 3rd |- |rowspan=2 |'''2014''' ||align=right|14 Dec 2013 || align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Val-d'Isère, France || Giant slalom || 2nd |- | align=right|12 Jan 2014 || align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}} Adelboden, Switzerland || Giant slalom || align=center|2nd |- | rowspan=3|'''2015''' || align=right|21 Dec 2014 || align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} Alta Badia, Italy || Giant slalom || 3rd |- | align=right|14 Mar 2015 || align=left|{{flagicon|SLO}} Kranjska Gora, Slovenia || Giant slalom || align=center|3rd |- | align=right|21 Mar 2015 || align=left|{{flagicon|FRA}} Méribel, France || Giant slalom || align=center|3rd |- | rowspan=3|'''2016''' || align=right|25 Oct 2015 || align=left|{{flagicon|AUT}} Sölden, Austria || Giant slalom || 2nd |- | align=right|26 Feb 2016 || align=left|{{flagicon|AUT}} Hinterstoder, Austria || Giant slalom || align=center|3rd |- | align=right bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|19 Mar 2016 || align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}} St. Moritz, Switzerland || bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|Giant slalom || align=center bgcolor="#BOEOE6"|'''1st''' |- | rowspan=3|'''2019''' || align=right|16 Dec 2018 || align=left|{{flagicon|ITA}} Alta Badia, Italy || Giant slalom || align=center|2nd |- | align=right|12 Jan 2019 || align=left| {{flagicon|SUI}} Adelboden, Switzerland || Giant slalom || align=center|3rd |- | align=right|24 Feb 2019 || align=left|{{flagicon|BUL}} Bansko, Bulgaria || Giant slalom || align=center|3rd |}
==World championships== Fanara has competed in four World Championships in the giant slalom discipline. In 2007 in Åre, Sweden, he finished 16th, but on home country snow in 2009 in Val-d'Isère, France, he did not finish the first run. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, he finished sixth in 2011 but failed to finish the first run in 2013 at Schladming, Austria.<ref>[http://www.fis-ski.com/uk/604/613.html?sector=AL&competitorid=16412&type=result&category=WSC&season=ALL&sort=&discipline=ALL&position=&place=&Submit=Search Race results at FIS-ski.com (World Championships]</ref> Fanara participated in the team event in 2011 at Garmisch and earned a gold medal.
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center" ! Year !! Age !! Slalom !! Giant <br> slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined |- | 2007 || ''25'' || — || 16 || — || |— || — |- | 2009 || ''27'' || — ||DNF1 || |— || — || — |- | 2011 || ''29'' || — || 6 || — ||— || — |- | 2013 || ''31'' || — || DNF1 || — || — || — |- | 2015 || ''33'' ||— || DNF1 || — || — || — |- | 2017 || ''35'' ||colspan=5|''{{small|Injured: did not compete}}''<!-- — || DNF1 || — || — || —--> |- | 2019 || ''37'' ||— || DNF2 || — || — || — |}
==Olympics== At the Winter Olympics, Fanara did not finish the first run of the giant slalom in 2006 and was injured two months prior the 2010 Games and did not compete.
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center" ! Year !! Age !! Slalom !! Giant <br> slalom !! Super-G !! Downhill !!Combined |- | 2006 || ''24'' || — || DNF1 || — ||— || — |- | 2010 || ''28'' || colspan=5|<small>''injured, did not compete''</small><!--— || — || — || — || —--> |- | 2014 || ''32'' || — || 9 || — ||— ||— |- | 2018 || ''36'' || — || 5 || — ||— ||— |}
==National championships== Fanara reached the podium of French national championships four times, all in giant slalom. In 2005 he was third; in 2006 he was second; and he won in 2007 and 2009.<ref name="FIS|S=AL|ID=16412"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.franceolympique.org/turin/athletes/fanara-90.html|title=JO Turin 2006 – Thomas Fanara|quote=Skier profile on France's 2006 Olympics page|language=fr}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist|2}}
==External links== * {{FIS alpine skier|16412}} * [https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=AL&competitorid=16412&type=cups Thomas Fanara] World Cup standings at the International Ski Federation * {{Ski-db|thomas_fanara_fra_fnrth}} * {{SR/Olympics profile}} * [http://www.ffs.fr/ski-alpin/equipes-de-france/hommes French Ski Team] – 2019 men's A team – ''{{in lang|fr}}'' * [http://www.fischersports.com/en/Alpine/RACE-CODE/Athletes/Men/1988-Fanara-Thomas Fischer Skis] – alpine racing – Thomas Fanara
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