olympicmedals disciplines death_date club death_place birth_place worldsmedals article_title olympicgolds birth_date worldsteams worldsgolds name olympicteams
1 downhill , giant slalom slalom , combined 7 july 1964 chamonix aiguille verte , haute-savoie , france chamonix , haute-savoie , france 4 charles bozon
 0 15 december 1932 4 1962 -rrb- & nbsp ; & nbsp ; & nbsp -- ; '' includes olympics '' -lrb- 1956 , 1958 , 1960 , 1 charles bozon 2 -- -lrb- 1956 , 1960 -rrb-
charles bozon

charles bozon , jr. -lrb- 15 december 1932 -- 7 july 1964 -rrb- was an alpine ski racer and world champion from france .
born in chamonix , haute-savoie , bozon won a gold medal in the slalom at the 1962 world championships , held at his hometown of chamonix in a snowstorm .
earlier , he had won a bronze medal in the slalom at the 1960 winter olympics in squaw valley , california , and two world championship silver medals in the combined in 1956 and 1960 .
bozon suffered fractured vertebra in the giant slalom at the world championships in 1958 and vowed not to compete again .
he did not compete in the olympics in 1964 .
bozon died in 1964 at age 31 in a mountain climbing accident near mont blanc .
he and 13 climbing companions were killed in an avalanche on the aiguille verte , a mountain in the mont blanc massif .
the climbing party had reached an elevation of about when the avalanche occurred .
bozon 's father , charles , sr. , had died on the same slope in an avalanche in 1938 .
less than three months earlier , an avalanche in switzerland claimed the lives of two noted alpine racers , buddy werner of the u.s. and barbi henneberger of west germany .
