Pierre Gignoux (born 19 May 1967) is a French ski mountaineer.
Gignoux was born in Grenoble and competed first in the Trans Mont Blanc race in 1994. Since 1995 he has been member of the French national team.
Together with Stéphane Brosse he has held the ski mountaineering record on the Mont Blanc since 30 May 2003 with a total time of 5 hours 15 minutes 47 seconds.Record à ski sur le parcours mythique de Chamonix-Mont Blanc-Chamonix (French), FFME, 2007. Amongst others, he won three times the European Cup and four times the French Championships.Interview Pierre Gignoux (Ski de Montagne) - 06/2003 (French).
Gignoux enjoys also mountaineering, cross-country skiing, paragliding and street as well as mountain bicycle racing.
Selected results 1997: 2nd, French national rankingC.N.S.A. 1997 - Top 25 homme 1998: 2nd, French national rankingC.N.S.A. 1998 - Top 25 homme 1999: 1st, European Championship team race (together with Francis Bibollet) 1st, French national rankingC.N.S.A. 1999 - Top 25 homme 2000: 1st, French national rankingC.N.S.A. 2000 - catégorie homme 5th (and 3rd in "seniors I" class ranking), Patrouille des Glaciers (together with Francis Bibollet and Stéphane Brosse) 2001: 1st, European Championship team race (together with Stéphane Brosse) 1st, French national rankingC.N.S.A. 2001 - catégorie homme 1st, Trophée des Gastlosen (European Cup, together with Stéphane Brosse)Coupe d'Europe 2001 de Ski-alpinisme 2002: 1st, Tour du Rutor (together with Stéphane Brosse)Tour du Rutor 5th, World Championship team race (together with Stéphane Brosse) 2003: 1st, Dolomiti Cup team (together with Stéphan Brosse)Albo d'oro - Roll of Honour 4th, European Championship team race (together with Stéphane Brosse) 2004: 1st, Transcavallo race (together with Stéphane Brosse) 2008: 8th, World Championship team race (together with Alexandre Pellicier)
Pierra Menta
1995: 5th, together with Olivier Pasteur 1996: 4th, together with Francis Bibollet 1997: 2nd, together with Yvan Brondex 1998: 2nd, together with Yvan Brondex 1999: 2nd, together with Francis Bibollet 2000: 2nd, together with Francis Bibollet 2001: 1st, together with Stéphane Brosse 2002: 2nd, together with Stéphane Brosse 2003: 2nd, together with Stéphane Brosse
Trofeo Mezzalama
Trofeo Mezzalama 1999: 2nd, together with Fabio Meraldi and Enrico Pedrini 2003: 2nd, together with Stéphane Brosse and Jean Pellissier
References
External links Pierre Gignoux' shop website at SkiMountaineering.org