# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-vuarnet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:56:46.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-vuarnet"
name: "Jean Vuarnet"
slug: "jean-vuarnet"
description: "Jean Raoul Célina André Vuarnet was an alpine ski racer from France. An Olympic gold medalist, he is known for inventing the \"Tuck\" skiing position, and was the first Olympian to win a gold medal using metal skis. Raised in Morzine, he had a childhood interest in skiing, which he pursued. He won a bronze medal in the downhill at the World Championships in 1958 at Bad Gastein, before winning gold in the same event in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. Vuarnet was also the author of several books on skiing. He gave his name to the Vuarnet brand in 1961. In 1995, his wife Edith Bonlieu, a fellow Olympian, and their son Patrick both died in a mass murder-suicide of members of the Order of the Solar Temple."
tagline: "Alpine skier, sports director and French businessman (1933–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean_Vuarnet_and_Francois_Bonlieu_in_March_1960.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-01-18"
deathDate: "2017-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.6
  momentum:             4.35483870967742
  historical:           15.77786533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Jean Vuarnet"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Vuarnet"
    title: "Jean Vuarnet"
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    title: "Jean Vuarnet"
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    title: "Jean Vuarnet"
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    title: "Jean Vuarnet"
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    title: "Jean Vuarnet"
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    title: "Jean Vuarnet"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump