Career
He has competed for France at two Winter and five World Championships. Fanara has started over 70 World cup races, mostly in giant slalom but also in slalom, and has been on the podium seven times. In December 2007, he fell and hurt himself in the second run after winning the first run of a race in Bad Kleinkirchheim, but finished.
Two years later in December 2009, Fanara incurred a season-ending injury to his left knee after a spectacular fall during a race in Beaver Creek, two months before the 2010 Winter Season standings
Race podiums
11 podiums – (11 GS)
Fanara has competed in four World Championships in the giant slalom discipline.
In 2007 in Åre, Sweden, he finished 16th, but on home country snow in 2009 in Val-d"Isère, France, he did not finish the first run. At Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, he finished sixth in 2011 but failed to finish the first run in 2013 at Schladming, Austria.
Fanara participated in the team event in 2011 at Garmisch and earned a gold medal. At the Winter, Fanara did not finish the first run of the giant slalom in 2006 and was injured two months prior the 2010 Games and did not compete.
Fanara reached the podium of French national championships four times, all in giant slalom.