Estelle Balet
- Birth Date:
- 19.12.1994
- Death date:
- 19.04.2016
- Length of life:
- 21
- Days since birth:
- 10721
- Years since birth:
- 29
- Days since death:
- 2928
- Years since death:
- 8
- Categories:
- Sportsman, Victim of Catastrophe, victim
- Nationality:
- swiss
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Estelle Balet (19 December 1994 – 19 April 2016) was a Swiss freeride snowboarder and two-time world champion in 2015 and 2016 at the Freeride World Tour. She died in an avalanche, aged 21, in April 2016.
Snowboarding
Balet started skiing early in her childhood. At the age of ten she transitioned from skiing to snowboarding.[2] Displaying fearlessness, Balet used to compare herself with the boys. Having completed the Freeride World qualifier, she entered the Freeride World Tour at the age of eighteen. Balet specialized particularly in switch, frontside 180, frontside 360 and jib. In 2015, Balet became the youngest ever Freeride World Tour champion when she won the women's snowboarding event. She won the same event in 2016.
Death
On 19 April 2016, Balet died in an avalanche while snowboarding in Orsières. She was filming the snowboard-themed movie Paradigm on Le Portalet in southwestern Switzerland. Despite swift action from emergency services and attendance from Air Glaciers, she died of her injuries.
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Source: wikipedia.org, news.lv, diena.lv
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