Candide Thovex

About

Candide Thovex (born 22 May 1982) is a French professional skier, filmmaker and entrepreneur.
He is the older brother of snowboarder Mirabelle Thovex.

Candide Thovex was born in Annecy, in the Haute-Savoie area of France, and grew up in the village of La Clusaz.
He learned to ski at the age of 2 in the Aravis region of the French Alps. He was 14 when he won his first French National Junior Championships in the mogul division.

In 1997 Thovex signed his first professional sponsorship contract with leading Australian action sports brand Quiksilver.
In 2000 Thovex returned to the United States to compete in the Gravity Games in Mammoth, California, where he won the Big Air contest. He made his second visit to Chad’s Gap and cleanly landed a D-spin 720 the first major rotation over a gap.
He won the Big Air division, his first gold medal at a Winter X-Games in Mount Snow Vermont. His season ended when he blew out the cruciate ligaments in his left knee.
In the spring of 2001, Thovex was invited to ride at Superpark 3 in Mammoth, California. Thovex stuck a 110-foot (33.5 meter) cork 540 tail grab. Thovex won the Halfpipe…