Briançon (French: [bʁijɑ̃sɔ̃] is a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department.
Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin is a Russian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2002 Olympic champion, a four-time World champion, a three-time European champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, the 1996 World Junior champion, and a two-time World Professional champion.
Kurt Browning, is a Canadian figure skater, choreographer and commentator. He is a four-time World Champion and Canadian national champion.
Brian Joubert is a French former competitive figure skater. He is the 2007 World champion, a three-time European champion, an eight-time French National champion, and the 2006–07 Grand Prix Final champion. In total, he is a six-time World medalist, a ten-time European medalist, and competed in four Winter Olympics for France.
Evan Frank Lysacek is an American retired figure skater. He is the 2010 Olympic champion, the 2009 World champion, a two-time Four Continents champion, the 2009 Grand Prix Final champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion. Lysacek was the 2010 United States Olympic Committee's SportsMan of the Year, and the winner of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top U.S. amateur athlete of 2010. On January 22, 2016, he was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame. Evan Lysacek is the last American male figure skater to win an individual Olympic medal.
Alexandre Vladimirovich "Sasha" Fadeev is a Russian former competitive figure skater who represented the Soviet Union. Fadeyev is the 1985 World champion and a four-time European champion.
Alexandre Chichkov is a former competitive ice dancer who represented the Soviet Union. With Oksana Grishuk, he is the 1988 World Junior champion and 1988 Grand Prix International de Paris bronze medalist.
Denis Yurievich Ten was a Kazakhstani figure skater. He was the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time World medalist, the 2015 Four Continents champion, the 2017 Winter Universiade champion, and a five-time national champion of Kazakhstan.
Vanessa James is a French-Canadian former competitive pair skater. With her skating partner, Morgan Ciprès, she is the 2019 European Champion, the 2018 World bronze medalist, the 2017 European bronze medalist, the 2018 Grand Prix Final champion and a six-time French national champion. They have also won medals in Grand Prix and Challenger Series competitions. James and Ciprès represented France at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics.
Montgenèvre is a commune of the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France.
Events from the year 1991 in France.
Romain Haguenauer is a French ice dancing coach, choreographer, and former competitor. He is best known for his work with four-time World champions Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron; and with three-time World champions and two-time Olympic champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
The Roman d'Alexandre, from the Old French Li romans d'Alixandre, is a 16,000-verse twelfth-century Old French Alexander romance detailing various episodes in the life of Alexander the Great. It is considered by many scholars as the most important of the Medieval Alexander romances. Many of the manuscripts of the work are illustrated. The poem is generally divided into four branches. The final form of the poem is largely credited to Alexandre de Bernay who probably placed the branches in the order we find them, reworked the first branch into alexandrines, incorporated the text of Pierre de Saint-Cloud, and added verses to join each branch.
The Association des Sports de Glisse d'Angers is a French ice hockey team based in Angers playing in the Ligue Magnus. The team currently use the name of "Les Ducs d'Angers". The team's mascot is an eagle-owl, or grand duc in French, but its name is primarily intended as a reference to the prestigious Dukes of Anjou lineage.
Stanislav Viktorovich Leonovich is a Russian figure skating coach and former pair skater who represented the Soviet Union. With his skating partner, Marina Pestova, he became a two-time World medalist, a two-time European medalist, and a three-time Soviet national champion.
The 2004 French Figure Skating Championships took place between December 20th and 21st, 2003 in Briançon. Skaters competed at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating. The event was used to help determine the French team to the 2004 World Championships and the 2004 European Championships.
The 2001 French Figure Skating Championships took place between December 13th and 17th, 2000 in Briançon. Skaters competed at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was used to help determine the French team to the 2001 World Championships and the 2001 European Championships.
The 2nd constituency of the Hautes-Alpes is a French legislative constituency in the Hautes-Alpes department.
Alexandre Rouleau is a Canadian-French former professional ice hockey player. Former General Manager of major junior team in which he played, the Val-d'Or Foreurs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He is currently amateur scout for the Chicago Blackhawks.
Tina Garabedian is an Armenian competitive ice dancer. With partner Simon Proulx-Sénécal, she is the 2015 Golden Spin of Zagreb bronze medalist and reached the free dance at two European Championships.
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