Armand Marchant
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 14 December 1997 | ||
| Occupation | Alpine skier | ||
| Sport | |||
| Skiing career | |||
| Disciplines | Slalom, giant slalom | ||
| Club | BE SKI Team | ||
| World Cup debut |
| ||
| Olympics | |||
| Teams | 1 – (2022) | ||
| Medals | 0 | ||
| World Championships | |||
| Teams | 4 – (2015, 2021–2025) | ||
| Medals | 0 | ||
| World Cup | |||
| Seasons | 3rd – (2015–) | ||
| Wins | 0 | ||
| Podiums | 1 | ||
| Overall titles | 0 – (55th in 2025) | ||
| Discipline titles | 0 – (21st in SL, 2025) | ||
Armand Marchant (born 14 December 1997)[2] is a Belgian alpine ski racer. Marchant specializes in the technical events of Slalom and Giant slalom. Marchant made his World Cup debut on 13 December 2014. He competed at the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek, USA, in the Giant slalom and the Slalom.[3][4]
Career
Marchant made his World Cup debut on 13 December 2014 in the Alta Badia giant slalom, he failed to finish the first run. At the 2015 World Championships in Beaver Creek he finished 41st in the Giant slalom and failed to finish the first run of the Slalom. On 11 December 2016 he scored his first World Cup points finishing 18th in the Val-d'Isère Slalom. On 5 January 2020 Marchant finished the 5th place at the Zagreb World Cup Slalom event.[5]
In November 2025 Marchant recorded his first ever World Cup podium, finishing second, seven hundredths of a second behind the winner, frenchman Paco Rassat, in the slalom in Gurgl, Austria. It was his second top-five finish after coming fifth in Zagreb in 2020. It was also a first ever World Cup podium in history for Belgium in Alpine skiing.[6]
World Cup results
Season standings
| Season | Age | Overall | Slalom | Giant slalom |
Super-G | Downhill | Combined | Parallel |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 19 | 129 | 49 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | 87 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | 23 | 109 | 37 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | 76 | 29 | — | — | — | 16 | |
| 2023 | 25 | 99 | 33 | — | — | — | — | |
| 2024 | 26 | 90 | 30 | — | — | — | ||
| 2025 | 27 | 55 | 21 | — | — | — | ||
| 2026 | 28 | 24 | 7 | — | — | — |
- standings through 16 December 2025
Results per discipline
| Discipline | WC starts | WC Top 30 | WC Top 15 | WC Top 5 | WC Podium | Best result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Location | Place | ||||||
| Slalom | 68 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 22 November 2025 | Gurgl, Austria | 2nd |
| Giant slalom | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 December 2016 | Val d'Isère, France | 45th |
| Super-G | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Downhill | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Combined | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 January 2020 | Wengen, Switzerland | 33rd |
| Parellel slalom | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 November 2021 | Zürs, Austria | 16th |
| Total | 76 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 1 | |||
- standings through 16 December 2025
World Championship results
| Year | |||||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined | Team Combined |
Parallel | Team event | |
| 2015 | 17 | DNF1 | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | – |
| 2021 | 23 | 10 | — | DNF | — | 15 | — | 15 | |
| 2023 | 25 | 25 | — | — | — | — | 27 | 12 | |
| 2025 | 27 | DNS2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Olympic results
| Year | |||||||
| Age | Slalom | Giant Slalom |
Super G | Downhill | Combined | Team event | |
| 2022 | 24 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — |
References
- ^ "Armand MARCHANT". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 1 February 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ "FIS profile". Fis-ski.com. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
- ^ "Men's Giant Slalom Official Results" (PDF). Retrieved 13 February 2015.
- ^ "Men's Slalom Official Results" (PDF). Retrieved 15 February 2015.
- ^ "Topprestatie van skiër Armand Marchant: 5e op WB-slalom in Zagreb" (in Dutch). 5 January 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
- ^ "Rassat claims first World Cup victory in Gurgl as Marchant secures historic Belgium podium". International Ski and Snowboard Federation. 22 November 2025. Retrieved 22 November 2025.
External links
- Armand Marchant at FIS (alpine)
- Armand Marchant at Olympics.com
- Armand Marchant at Team Belgium (in Dutch)
- Armand Marchant at Olympedia
- Armand Marchant at Ski-DB Alpine Ski Database