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Born | Les Crosets, Canton of Valais, Switzerland | 2 August 1972||||||||||||||
Died | 30 April 2006 Les Crosets, Canton of Valais, Switzerland | (aged 33)||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Gerold Stadler (m. 2002) | ||||||||||||||
Website | rey-bellet.com | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Skiing | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Corinne Rey-Bellet (2 August 1972 – 30 April 2006) was a Swiss alpine skier. Rey-Bellet shared a World Championship silver medal in the downhill event in St. Moritz in 2003 (in a tie with Alexandra Meissnitzer) and won a total of five World Cup races. Her "double win" (two race wins on the same day) at St. Anton am Arlberg on 16 January 1999 is the only double win in the women's Alpine World Cup. She retired in 2003 due to a series of injuries sustained to her right knee. On 30 April 2006, 10 days after separating from her husband, he shot her dead.