Virgile Vandeput

Virgile Vandeput
Personal information
Born September 6, 1994 (1994-09-06) (age 21)[1]
Anderlecht, Belgium[1]
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) / 6'[1]
Weight 79 kg / 174 lb[1]
Medal record
Alpine skiing
Competitor for  Israel

Virgile Vandeput (Hebrew: וירג'יל ואן דה פוט‎; born September 6, 1994 in Anderlecht, Belgium[2]) is an alpine skier who competes for Israel.

Biography

Born in Belgium, he has dual Belgian and Israeli citizenship. He grew up representing Belgium and finished the 2009/10 season as the best ranked Belgian junior in Slalom and super G, and second best in giant slalom. He opted to switch to represent Israel from 2010, because he felt he would have better opportunities to compete at the highest level.[3]

Vandeput began skiing as a boy, and joined the Belgian French Ski Federation's [FFBS] perfection level group in September 2006. He has a training base in Tignes, France.[3] Vandeput's hobbies are Volleyball, football, fitness, reading, films, and his coach is Aleksander Vitanov.[3]

During the 2014 Winter Olympics, Vandeput was supposed to compete for Israel at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom.[4] However, he suffered a leg injury during training and failed a fitness test, and this prevented him from competing.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "VIRGILE VANDEPUT PLAYER PROFILE". EuroSport. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  2. ↑ FIS Biography
  3. 1 2 3 "Athletes - Virgile VANDEPUT". 2014 Winter Olympics's main website. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  4. ↑ Sinai, Allon (26 November 2013). "Israel announces its 5-athlete delegation to Sochi Olympics". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Israeli skier Vandeput misses Giant Slalom due to late leg injury". Jpost. 20 February 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2014.

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