Yohan Goutt Goncalves

Yohan Goutt Gonçalves
Personal information
Born December 20, 1994 (1994-12-20) (age 22)
Suresnes, France

Yohan Goutt Gonçalves (born December 20, 1994 in Suresnes, France[1]) is a French-East Timorese alpine skier who has competed since 2013.[2] Goutt Goncalves has also qualified to compete for East Timor at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. By doing so he became the first athlete ever to qualify from the country at the Winter Olympics.[3][4]

Goutt Gonçalves is the son of a French father and his mother is from East Timor, allowing him to compete for the latter country.[5][6] His fathers mother was Estonian Eva Goutt (maiden name Liiv), who is related to Estonian poet Juhan Liiv.[7]

On December 29 in a race in Serbia Goutt Gonçalves managed to lower his point total to below 140 and officially qualify for the games.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sochi 2014 profile
  2. ↑ GOUTT Yohan Goncalves Biography on FIS
  3. 1 2 Trouillard, Stéphanie (5 January 2014). "The skier taking East Timor to the Winter Olympics". France 24. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Jones, Ruby (7 January 2014). "Even cooler runnings as skier from tropical East Timor qualifies for Winter Olympics". ABC Online. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Passa, Dennis (29 November 2013). "One man's journey from tropical East Timor to the Winter Olympics". The Courier-Mail. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Waters, Luke (26 August 2013). "East Timor skier eyes winter Olympics". Special Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  7. ↑ Pullerits, Priit (15 February 2014). "Viis sammu Juhanist Yohanini". Postimees. Retrieved 21 February 2015.


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