Chimene Mary "Chemmy" Crawford-Alcott (née Alcott; born 10 July 1982)[1] is an English former World Cup alpine ski racer.

[3] Born in Hove, East Sussex, England,[1] Alcott was named after Sophia Loren's character in the 1961 film El Cid.

[5] She was a talented athlete, representing Richmond in dry slope skiing, and in tennis at the London Youth Games.

[9] Alcott made her FIS race debut in August 1997 in a Giant slalom event at Coronet Peak, New Zealand.

The following winter Alcott won silver (super-G) and bronze (giant slalom) medals at the 1999 European Youth Olympics in Štrbské Pleso, Slovakia.

In December 1999, Alcott made her World Cup debut in a giant slalom race in Lienz, Austria.

[21] In March 2003, Alcott scored her first World Cup points by finishing 27th in a GS event in Innsbruck, Austria.

[5][27] At the 2005 World Championships (Santa Caterina, Italy), Alcott finished 19th in the downhill, 22nd in the super-G and 35th in the giant slalom.

[6] Alcott was however disqualified from the combined event following the first run of the slalom, where her skis were found to be 0.2 mm narrower than the FIS regulations allowed.

However, it was decided to award the Senior downhill title using the results of the previous day's Junior race, in which Alcott did not compete.

This meant that Katrina Head pipped her to the Overall British title, ending Alcott's stranglehold on the Victrix Ludorum trophy.

[45] Alcott sustained a double fracture of her right leg when she crashed training for the World Cup downhill race at Lake Louise, Canada, on 2 December 2010, and consequently missed the entire 2011 skiing season.

In February, Alcott beat Graham Bell in a head-to-head slalom race filmed for BBC's Ski Sunday.

[51] Alcott told The Ski Podcast that "to have the opportunity to sit next to a legend like Clare Balding, and to be taken under her wing, was amazing.

[55] Chemmy is also a motor sport fan; has an MSA Competition Licence and competed in the 2012 Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge race.

In October 2013, the BBC reported that Alcott was to marry her current boyfriend, and fellow alpine ski racer, Dougie Crawford.