# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-besse
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:18:41.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-besse"
name: "William Besse"
slug: "william-besse"
description: "William Besse is a Swiss former alpine skier. He took four wins and 13 podiums in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, all of them in the downhill discipline, including winning the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen in 1994. He retired from competition in 1999, in part because he struggled to adapt to the introduction of carving skis in the mid-1990s. After retiring from competition, he became a ski instructor in Verbier, and also worked as an analyst for Télévision Suisse Romande and Radio Télévision Suisse's coverage of alpine skiing, until he was let go after the 2014-15 season."
tagline: "Swiss alpine skier"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "1968-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.96
  momentum:             1.68
  historical:           6.338589333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.william-besse.ch/"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Besse"
    title: "William Besse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%84%D8%AC_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%84%D8%AC)"
    title: "ويليام بيس (متزلج على التلج)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Besse"
    title: "William Besse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Besse"
    title: "William Besse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Besse"
    title: "William Besse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Besse"
    title: "William Besse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Besse"
    title: "William Besse"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q592953"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump