Isabelle Patissier
{{Short description|French rock climber and rally driver}}
{{Infobox climber
| name = Isabelle Patissier
| image = Isabelle pilote de rallye.jpg
| caption = Patissier rally driving in Morocco in 2011
| nationality = French
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|03|01}}
| birth_place = Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon
| residence =
| education =
| occupation =
| height = 1.71 m
| weight = 49 kg
| typeofclimber = Sport climbing
| highestgrade =
| highestredpoint = {{Climbing grade|8b}}
| highestonsight =
| knownfor = First woman to climb {{Climbing grade|8b}}
| firstascents =
| namedroutes =
| majorascents =
| retired =
| updated = 29 March 2013
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Women's competition climbing }}
{{MedalCountry | {{FRA}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|World Cup}}
{{Medal|Winner|1990|Lead}}
{{Medal|Winner|1991|Lead}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|1991 Frankfurt|Lead}}
{{MedalBronze|1993 Innsbruck|Lead}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|1992 Frankfurt|Lead}}
{{MedalCompetition|Sport Roccia}}
{{MedalBronze|1986|Lead}}
{{MedalSilver|1988|Lead}}
{{MedalCompetition|Rock Master}}
{{Medal|Winner|1991|Lead}}
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}}
Isabelle Patissier (born March 1, 1967) is a French world champion rock climber and more recently a rally driver. She is known for winning two Lead Climbing World Cups (1990, 1991) and for being the first-ever woman in history to climb an {{Climbing grade|8b}} route
Climbing career
Patissier started climbing at age 5 or 6 with her parents. At 14 she practised mountaineering in Chamonix and also slalom and downhill skiing. In 1986 at the age of 19, she won the first French official climbing competition, taking place in the sportshall in Vaulx-en-Velin only steps from her highschool, climbing barefoot. After this she devoted herself full-time to climbing and in 1988 became both the first woman to climb an 8b (Sortilèges at Cimaï){{Cite web|url=http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews1.lasso?l=1&keyid=40425|title=The evolution of free climbing|publisher=planetmountain.com|author=Maurizio Oviglia|date=23 December 2012|accessdate=19 May 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054000/http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews1.lasso?l=1&keyid=40425|archivedate=4 March 2016}} and French champion. She subsequently won this title a further 3 times.
Personal life
Between 1993 and 1996 she was married to Nicolas Hulot a TV presenter and writer. In 1995 she retired from climbing. In 2000, she made her motorsport debut in the Rallye Aicha des Gazelles and in 2002 competed in her first Paris-Dakar rally.Dakar.com. [http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2012/fr/pilote/isabelle-patissier.html "Fiche pilote Isabelle PATISSIER"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130616090156/http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2012/fr/pilote/isabelle-patissier.html |date=2013-06-16 }}. Retrieved on 17 May 2013. She later married her copilot/mechanic Thierry Delli-Zotti.
Notable climbs
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{{Climbing grade|8b}}
:* Les sucettes à l'anis - Cimaï (FRA) - 1989
:* Sortilèges - Cimaï (FRA) - 1988 - First-ever woman in history to redpoint an {{climbing grade|8b}}{{cite web | website=PlanetMountain.com | url=https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/the-evolution-of-free-climbing.html | title=The evolution of free climbing | date=23 December 2012 | first=Maurizio | last=Oviglia | accessdate=4 January 2022}}
{{Climbing grade|8a}}
:* Échographie - Gorges du Verdon (FRA) - 1988
{{Climbing grade|7c}}
:* Katapult - Frankenjura (GER) - 1985
Rankings
= Lead Climbing World Cups =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1989 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1990 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1991 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1992 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1993 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1994 |
| ?
| style="background: gold;" | 1 | style="background: gold;" | 1 | style="background: silver;" | 2 | 7 | style="background: silver;" | 2 |
= Lead Climbing World Championships =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1991 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1993 |
| style="background: silver;" | 2
| style="background: #cc9966;" | 3 |
= Lead Climbing European Championships =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1992 |
| style="background: silver;" | 2 |
= Lead Climbing [[Rock Master]] =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1987 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1988 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1989 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1990 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1991 ! style="background: #b0e0e6;" | 1992 |
| style="background: #cc9966;" | 3
| style="background: silver;" | 2 | style="background: silver;" | 2 | style="background: silver;" | 2 | style="background: gold;" | 1 | style="background: silver;" | 2 |
= Number of medals in Lead climbing World Cups =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | ||||
| width = "70" | Seasons
! width = "30" | 1st ! width = "30" | 2nd ! width = "30" | 3rd ! width = "80" | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | ||||
| 1990 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1991 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| 1992 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 1993 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1994 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Total | 7 | 8 | 5 | 20 |
Rally results
- 2000 - 3Com Star Challenge - 2nd
- 2000 - Trophy des Gazelles - 3rd
- 2004 - 1st woman world champion (Production category), with Team Nissan Dessoude
- 2004 - Oman Desert Express - Winner
- 2004 - Rally of Tunisia - 9th
- 2006 - Rally of Tunisia - 7th
- 2007 - Rally of Tunisia - 4th
- Dakar Rally - competed 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 (3rd in 2WD, 16th in overall ranking) and 2012
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Isabelle Patissier}}
- {{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20130411051442/http://www.isabellepatissier.com/ Official Website]}}
- [http://egw.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php?page_name=pstambl&person=1163&cat=2 IFSC Profile]
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Category:French female mountain climbers
Category:IFSC Climbing World Championships medalists
Category:IFSC Climbing World Cup overall medalists
Category:French female climbers