Émile Allais

Émile Allais (25 February 1912 - 17 October 2012) was an alpine skier champion of France; won the three events at the 1937 World Championships in Chamonix and gold in the 1938 squad. Born in Megève, he was a dominant runner in the 1930s and is considered to be the first great French alpine skier. p>

In December 2005, at age 93 Allais made the trip to the French Senate in Paris, where he had the honor, along with a number of other ski instructors. His life has been all about skiing; learned skiing very early, raced all over Europe, then trained the French Olympic ski team for seven years. Allais fought in World War II on skis, and even courted his wife at a ski meeting. He turned 100 in February 2012.

Allais died after an illness at a hospital in Sallanches in the French Alps, on October 17, 2012.

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