Marielle Goitschel

{{short description|French alpine skier}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| image = Marielle Goitschel (1968).jpg

| caption = Goitschel at the 1968 Winter Olympics

| full_name = Micheline Françoise Marielle Goitschel

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|28 September 1945}}

| birth_place = Sainte-Maxime, Var, France

| height = 169 cm

| weight = 64 kg

| headercolor = lightsteelblue

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Women's alpine skiing }}

{{MedalCountry | {{FRA}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalGold | 1964 Innsbruck | Giant Slalom }}

{{MedalGold | 1968 Grenoble | Slalom }}

{{MedalSilver | 1964 Innsbruck | Slalom }}

{{MedalCompetition | World Championships }}

{{MedalGold | 1962 Chamonix | Combined }}

{{MedalGold | 1964 Innsbruck | Combined }}

{{MedalGold | 1964 Innsbruck | Giant Slalom }}

{{MedalGold | 1966 Portillo | Combined }}

{{MedalGold | 1966 Portillo | Giant Slalom }}

{{MedalGold | 1966 Portillo | Downhill }}

{{MedalGold | 1968 Grenoble | Slalom }}

{{MedalSilver | 1962 Chamonix | Slalom }}

{{MedalSilver | 1964 Innsbruck | Slalom }}

{{MedalSilver | 1966 Portillo | Slalom }}

{{MedalSilver | 1968 Grenoble | Combined }}

}}

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Micheline Françoise Marielle Goitschel (born 28 September 1945) is a French former alpine skier.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Marielle Goitschel |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/marielle-goitschel-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203060918/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/marielle-goitschel-1.html |archive-date=3 December 2016}} Marielle is the younger sister of Christine Goitschel, another champion skier of the time, and the aunt of speed skier Philippe Goitschel.

After great success in the 1962 World Championships and 1964 Winter Olympics, winning 5 medals including 3 golds, Goitschel was considered the world's best female skier. She continued her domination at the 1966 World Championships in Portillo, Chile, winning medals in all 4 events, with 3 golds and one silver. When the alpine skiing World Cup debuted a few months after those championships in January 1967, Goitschel was expected to again dominate the circuit that season. However, she narrowly lost the overall title to Nancy Greene of Canada, but did take the discipline cup in downhill and tied for the win in slalom with her compatriot Annie Famose. During the next season, she again missed the overall title, finishing only 4th while repeating as slalom champion. She won her final gold medal in slalom at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, and then retired from ski racing after that season. Goitschel's total of 11 World Championships medals in alpine skiing is second all-time among women to the 15 won by Christl Cranz of Germany (see the note below).

Marielle and sister Christine were the first ever female siblings on the same individual's event Olympic podium, winning the gold (Christine) and silver (Marielle) medals in the 1964 Olympic Women's slalom.{{cite web |title=Dufour-Lapointe duo not first 1-2 Olympics sister act |url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/09/dufour-lapointe-duo-not-first-1-2-olympics-sister-act |author=QMI Agency writer |publisher=Toronto Sun.com |date=9 February 2014 |access-date=13 February 2014}} They would repeat the feat two days later, switching their gold-silver order, in the 1964 Olympic Women's giant slalom.