Edgar Grospiron

Grospiron is the kind of champion I find genuinely romantic: a kid from an Alpine corner of Haute-Savoie who won moguls gold at his home Albertville Games in 1992, then took bronze in Lillehammer two years later. Winning Olympic gold in front of your own country is about the highest pressure a sport can offer, and he delivered. What I admire even more is the second act, leading the French youth team and steering the Annecy Olympic bid. A Legion of Honour recipient who stayed devoted to the movement that made him. That blend of mountain-born nerve and lasting service is exactly my kind of hero.

Name (English)

Edgar Grospiron

Name (Japanese)

エドガー・グロスピロン

Reading

えどがー・ぐろすぴろん

Born

March 17, 1969 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

Saint-Julien-en-Genevois, Haute-Savoie, France

Occupation

freestyle skier

Awards & achievements

• 1992 Knight of the Legion of Honour

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.grospiron.net/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%94%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• Haute-Savoie
• freestyle skier

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.