Billy MAJOR

Great Britain

Alpine Skiing

Date of Birth: 21 Nov 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Place of birth: CAMBRIDGE

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Residence: CAMBRIDGE

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Alpine Skiing	Men's Slalom	DNF

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre - Technical	Men's Slalom Run 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Historical Results

World Championship
Rank	Event	Year	Location
12	Team Parallel Mixed	2021	Cortina d'Ampezzo, ITA

World Cup Rankings
Season	All	Slalom
2021/2022	119	44

World Cup - Best Achievements
Season	Slalom	Parallel
2021/2022	1 x 18th	1 x 49th

Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
Rank	Event	Season	Location	Result
18	Slalom	2021/2022	Schladming, AUT	1:47.45
49	Parallel	2021/2022	Lech / Zuers, AUT	47.54

Hobbies:

Golf. (Athlete, 18 Oct 2021)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

Grew up in Saffron Walden and attended the Dame Bradbury's School. Was pursuing a degree in neuroscience at Manchester University which was put on hold to pursue skiing full-time with the Olympic Winter Games as his end goal. (cambridge-news.co.uk, 16 Feb 2019)

Languages spoken:

English, French

Club name:

2016

Coach:

National: Tristan Glasse-Davies (GBR)

Debut:

2011 FIS event in Valmeinier (Slalom - DNF1)
2020 World Cup in Alta Badia (Slalom - DNF1)

National team:

2016

Start:

Skiing is pretty much all he has known, having been doing it since the age of two. With his parents running a ski company in France, he would spend winters there. Started racing at seven. (cambridge-news.co.uk, 16 Feb 2019; Athlete, 18 Oct 2021)

Reason:

"I have always loved the competitiveness like in any sport but mainly the sensations from the speed and the skis." (Athlete, 18 Oct 2021)

Ambition:

"I want to become the first British ski racer to win a World Cup race and an Olympic medal." (billymajor.com)

Memorable:

Winning the 2021 Europa Cup slalom title with two victories. "I am over the moon and will be enjoying the next few days whilst it sinks in. It was a tough battle and came down to the last run of the season, squeaky bum time to say the least." (Athlete, 18 Oct 2021; Facebook, 20 Mar 2021)

Hero:

Rugby Hall of Famer Johnny Wilkinson (GBR). (Athlete, 18 Oct 2021)

Ritual:

Maintains a certain order in putting on his ski gear. (Athlete, 18 Oct 2021)

Philosophy:

"Enjoy the process and be grateful." (Athlete, 18 Oct 2021)

General Interest

MEMBER OF THE QUEEN'S MEN
The GBR Alpine men’s team has named themselves "The Queen’s Men." "Just a little nickname I would say to give the team a bit of an identity and a team feeling. Like any football team or rugby team, they all have a team name on top of their official one. When you see all the other big ski nations like Norway, that have Attacking Vikings everywhere, we thought we could have a little name too." (gbsnowsport.com, 2021)

Milestones

Competed in the 2019 and 2021 World Championships.

In 21 starts at three Junior World Championship appearances (2014-17), his top finish is 31st in giant slalom in 2017 in at Are.

Won two Europa Cup slalom races and the season slalom title in 2021, leading a strong GBR team performance. Added a third Europa Cup slalom win in January 2022 at Berchtesgaden, tying Charlie Guest (GBR) for most GBR Europa Cup wins at three.

Two-time British Alpine champion (2017, 2018).

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/billy.major96/
https://www.instagram.com/billymajor_/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-major-197281134/
https://twitter.com/billymajorski
Athlete Website: https://www.billymajor.com/

Legend

DNF:: Did Not Finish

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