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Tessa Worley

Alpine skier
Worley in 2017
Disciplines	Giant slalom, super-G, combined
Club	EMHM – Grand Bornand
Born	(1989-10-04) 4 October 1989 (age 35) Annemasse, Haute-Savoie, France
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
World Cup debut	4 February 2006 (age 16)
Website	tessaworley.net
Olympics
Teams	3 – (2010, 2018, 2022)
Medals	0
World Championships
Teams	8 – (2009–2023)
Medals	6 (4 gold)
World Cup
Seasons	18 – (2006–2023)
Wins	16 – (16 GS)
Podiums	36 – (36 GS)
Overall titles	0 – (6th in 2017)
Discipline titles	2 – (2 GS; 2017, 2022)
Medal record Women's alpine skiing Representing  France World Cup race podiums Event 1st 2nd 3rd Giant slalom 16 10 10 International alpine competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 0 World Championships 4 0 2 World Championships Gold 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Team event Gold 2013 Schladming Giant slalom Gold 2017 St. Moritz Giant slalom Gold 2017 St. Moritz Team event Bronze 2011 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Giant slalom Bronze 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo Parallel Junior World Championships Bronze 2008 Formigal Giant slalom

Tessa Worley (born 4 October 1989) is a French former World Cup alpine ski racer and non-commissioned officer. She previously competed in all five alpine disciplines and specialised in giant slalom.

Career

Worley in action in 2017 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Born in Annemasse, in the département of Haute-Savoie, Worley's father Steve is Australian and her mother Madeleine is French, as such she possesses both French and Australian citizenships. She grew up skiing year-round, in France and New Zealand, and her home ski area is the resort of Le Grand-Bornand.

Worley made her World Cup debut at age 16 in February 2006, and finished in 29th place in a giant slalom in Ofterschwang, Germany. She was fifth in the first race of the 2009 season, a giant slalom in Sölden, Austria, in October 2008. A month later, she gained her first World Cup victory (and first podium) in giant slalom at Aspen, United States.

Early in the 2011 season, Worley won three consecutive giant slalom races before January. In February, she won a gold medal in the team event at the World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and was also the bronze medalist in the giant slalom. At the next edition in 2013 at Schladming, Worley won both runs of the giant slalom to claim the world title.

Two days after her eighth World Cup win, Worley was injured in a slalom in France in December 2013. Caught on the tails of her skis in the first run at Courchevel, she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee and also had some lateral meniscus damage. It ended Worley's 2014 World Cup season and kept her out of the 2014 Olympics.

World Cup results

Season titles

• 2 titles – (2 giant slalom)

Season standings

Race podiums

• 16 wins – (16 GS)
• 36 podiums – (36 GS)

Season
	Date	Location	Discipline	Place
2009	20 Nov 2008	Aspen, USA	Giant slalom	1st
2010	12 Dec 2009	Åre, Sweden	Giant slalom	1st
2011	27 Nov 2010	Aspen, USA	Giant slalom	1st
	12 Dec 2010	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Giant slalom	1st
	28 Dec 2010	Semmering, Austria	Giant slalom	1st
2012	28 Dec 2011	Lienz, Austria	Giant slalom	3rd
	21 Jan 2012	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	1st
	12 Feb 2012	Soldeu, Andorra	Giant slalom	1st
2013	9 Dec 2012	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Giant slalom	3rd
	16 Dec 2012	Courchevel, France	Giant slalom	3rd
	28 Dec 2012	Semmering, Austria	Giant slalom	3rd
	17 Mar 2013	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Giant slalom	2nd
2014	15 Dec 2013	St. Moritz, Switzerland	Giant slalom	1st
2017	26 Nov 2016	Killington, USA	Giant slalom	1st
	10 Dec 2016	Sestriere, Italy	Giant slalom	1st
	27 Dec 2016	Semmering, Austria	Giant slalom	2nd
	28 Dec 2016		Giant slalom	2nd
	7 Jan 2017	Maribor, Slovenia	Giant slalom	1st
	24 Jan 2017	Kronplatz, Italy	Giant slalom	2nd
	10 Mar 2017	Squaw Valley, USA	Giant slalom	3rd
2018	28 Oct 2017	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom	2nd
	19 Dec 2017	Courchevel, France	Giant slalom	2nd
	6 Jan 2018	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	2nd
	27 Jan 2018	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Giant slalom	1st
2019	27 Oct 2018	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom	1st
	21 Dec 2018	Courchevel, France	Giant slalom	3rd
	28 Dec 2018	Semmering, Austria	Giant slalom	3rd
	15 Jan 2019	Kronplatz, Italy	Giant slalom	2nd
2020	26 Oct 2019	Sölden, Austria	Giant slalom	3rd
2021	14 Dec 2020	Courchevel, France	Giant slalom	3rd
	16 Jan 2021	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	2nd
	26 Jan 2021	Kronplatz, Italy	Giant slalom	1st
2022	28 Dec 2021	Lienz, Austria	Giant slalom	1st
	8 Jan 2022	Kranjska Gora, Slovenia	Giant slalom	2nd
	25 Jan 2022	Kronplatz, Italy	Giant slalom	3rd
	6 Mar 2022	Lenzerheide, Switzerland	Giant slalom	1st

World Championship results

Olympic results

See also

In Spanish: Tessa Worley para niños