# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-couttet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:38:54.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-couttet"
name: "James Couttet"
slug: "james-couttet"
description: "James Couttet was a French alpine skier and ski jumper. As an alpine skier he competed at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and won two medals in 1948: a silver in the slalom and a bronze in the combined event. As a ski jumper he placed 25th in the normal hill at the 1948 Games. Couttet won a full set of medals at the world championships: a gold in 1938 and a silver and bronze in 1950. He retired in 1955 to become a skiing coach and prepare the French alpine skiing team for the 1956 Winter Olympics. He later helped design and build ski lifts. He was married to Lucienne Schmidt-Couttet, a fellow alpine skier who competed at the 1948 Olympics."
tagline: "Alpine skier (1921–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Couttet_Zakopane_1939.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1921-07-06"
deathDate: "1997-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.346153846153845
  historical:           12.47512666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Couttet"
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    title: "James Couttet"
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    title: "James Couttet"
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    title: "James Couttet"
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    title: "James Couttet"
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    title: "James Couttet"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump