Anaïs Chevalier

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Anaïs Chevalier biathlon
Anaïs Chevalier octobre 2017.jpg
Association FranceFrance France
birthday 12th February 1993 (age 27)
place of birth Revel
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2011
European Cup / IBU Cup victories 3 (1 individual victory)
Debut in the World Cup 2013
World Cup victories 8 (1 individual victory)
status active
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
EM medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JEM medals 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
EYOF medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Season
IBU Biathlon world championships
silver 2016 Oslo Season
silver 2017 Hochfilzen Mixed relay
bronze 2017 Hochfilzen sprint
bronze 2017 Hochfilzen Season
IBU Biathlon Junior World Championships
silver 2011 Nové Město na Moravě sprint
silver 2011 Nové Město na Moravě persecution
bronze 2011 Nové Město na Moravě Season
silver 2012 Kontiolahti sprint
IBU European biathlon championships
bronze 2015 Otepää Season
IBU Biathlon Junior European Championships
gold 2013 Bansko singles
gold 2013 Bansko Mixed relay
bronze 2013 Bansko persecution
Olympic rings European Youth Olympic Festival
silver 2011 Liberec singles
bronze 2011 Liberec Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 7. ( 2016/17 )
Individual World Cup 14. (2016/17)
Sprint World Cup 7. (2016/17)
Pursuit World Cup 8. (2016/17)
Mass start world cup 5. ( 2017/18 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
singles 0 1 0
sprint 0 2 2
persecution 1 0 1
Mass start 0 0 3
Season 7th 5 4th
last change: April 8, 2020

Anaïs Chevalier (born February 12, 1993 in Revel ) is a French biathlete .

Chevalier started successfully in the youth and junior division and made his debut in the 2013 World Cup . After being downgraded due to back problems, she established herself in the first French team from 2015 and won her first individual World Cup race in 2016. From 2016 to 2018 she won several medals at World Championships and Olympic Games, especially with the relay, but in 2017 also World Championship bronze in the sprint. After the birth of her child, she took a break in winter 2019/20.

Athletic career

Junior division and promotion to the World Cup team (until 2014)

Chevalier grew up near the French Alps in the Isère department and came into contact with winter sports at an early age. She began alpine skiing and joined the Club Omnisports des Sept Laux in her youth , initially trained cross-country skiing and switched to biathlon after a few years. From the beginning, her strengths were in shooting, while she lagged behind other athletes in running. At the 2010 World Youth Championships in Torsby , she took part for the first time in a major international event, where she finished eighth in the sprint and relay, but was disqualified in the sprint. In the following year she won the silver medal in sprint and pursuit at the youth championship as well as the bronze medal with the relay, and in the next higher age group of juniors she won the silver medal in the sprint with a faultless race in 2012. She achieved further successes in the youth field at the Junior European Championships in 2013 - including titles in singles and in the mixed relay - as well as in 2011 at the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival . In 2010, Chevalier named other biathletes from her home region of Dauphiné as role models during her time in the youth field , including Marie Dorin , who was seven years her senior , who started playing with the same club as she and won two medals at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In 2013 and 2014, Chevalier won twice the French championships in the Dauphiné relay team together with her younger sister Chloé (who also won World Cup medals in the junior division) and Dorin (from their wedding: Dorin-Habert) .

At the age of 18 Chevalier made his debut in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult sector after the World Cup. At her second start in the Pursuit race from Annecy - Le Grand-Bornand , she won first points for the overall standings and placed in the top ten in several individual competitions in the IBU Cup over the following winters. From December 2013 she moved up to the French World Cup team. In her first appearance there in the Hochfilzen sprint , she was the only athlete on her team to fail and finished in 27th place. She was then used in the relay - also because of Marie Dorin-Habert's injury-related absence at the beginning of the season - and reached the podium in her second World Cup race together with Marie-Laure Brunet , Sophie Boilley and Anaïs Bescond as third. She then established herself in the French World Cup team and took part in the Winter Olympics in Sochi , taking ranks 47 and 44 in sprint and pursuit. At the end of winter, she achieved her first top ten result in the World Cup in eighth place in the Kontiolahti pursuit. In the overall standings, she finished 48th, making her fourth-best female athlete in a season in which Anaïs Bescond won the French team's first World Cup in six years. With a hit rate of 86 percent, she was one of the 20 best shooters in the World Cup, while her running times were below average.

Downgrading, promotion and first World Cup victory (2014 to 2017)

Chevalier later stated that after taking part in the Olympics she was so motivated to improve her performance that she started training too quickly and “trained too hard”. The back problems that arose as a result in the summer of 2014 meant that - despite a World Cup victory with the mixed relay around Martin Fourcade as the final runner at the start in Östersund - she interrupted the season early for several weeks in order to protect her body. As a result, she lost her place in the World Cup team and returned to the IBU Cup in 2015 , where she achieved several top ten results. After a second place in the Ridnaun sprint, the coaches again considered them for the highest competition series from December 2015. In her comeback race in the sprint of Pokljuka (in which her sister Chloé made her World Cup debut) Chevalier was 35th, in the further course of the season she reached the top 20 places in the individual several times and was again a regular runner in the relay. Together with Justine Braisaz , Bescond and Dorin-Habert she won the silver medal at the World Championships in Oslo.

In preparation for the winter of 2016/17 , Chevalier's training focused in particular on building muscles in order to become stronger in running. In fact, their running times over the entire winter were one percent faster than the average of the World Cup field, which means that Chevalier continued to lag behind the best-running athletes on her team (Braisaz, Dorin-Habert and Célia Aymonier ), but her teammates in the shooting with a hit rate of Exceeded 87 percent. Although Dorin-Habert was still the most successful French woman as fourth in the overall World Cup, Chevalier was also one of the leading biathletes of the winter as seventh in the ranking. She stood ten times on the podium (including five times in relays) and decided in Nové Město na Moravě with the pursuit of her first individual race in the series for herself. After a mistake in the first shooting, she hit all the targets in the remaining three inserts and won with a 9.5 second lead over Dorothea Wierer . At the World Championships in Hochfilzen , Chevalier won the silver medal with the mixed relay and the bronze medal with the women's relay as the starting runner. As third in the sprint, she also won the only individual World Cup medal for a French woman. Julien Robert , who was in charge of the team from 2015 to 2018, described Chevalier's successes as an "enormous surprise" and a "fair reward" (in the original: "juste récompense") for the efforts that she has made since her temporary demotion.

Extended world class, form weaknesses and pregnancy break (from 2017)

Chevalier at the standing stage during the World Cup sprint in Oberhof in January 2018

In the seasons from 2017 to 2019, Chevalier reached the podium in other individual races, but missed a second World Cup victory and finished 19th and 20th in the overall standings. In May 2017, she broke her collarbone in a bicycle accident during training. At the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang , she won the bronze medal in the women's relay, but made several mistakes in all competitions and finished 16th in the sprint as the best individual result. She was dissatisfied with the course of the Olympic winter after the Olympic winter and later said that she was almost disgusted by the sport at the time. To re-motivate herself, she redesigned her training and began to train more independently from the rest of the team. In December 2018 and January 2019, Chevalier reached the top ten in six consecutive competitions and stood on the podium three times. Behind Anastasiya Kuzmina , she ran the second fastest time on the track at the mass start in Nové Město and finished third - her mileage improved overall in winter 2018/19 and was three percent better than the average. In the Oberhof sprint, as second behind Lisa Vittozzi , she missed victory by just five seconds. Two months later at the World Championships in March 2019, Chevalier was far from the top places: the best individual result was a 32nd place in the sprint and in both the mixed relay and the women's relay, she lost a lot of time as a starting runner and handed over to 15 Position. After the women's relay, she said she was completely out of shape, so her poor performance came as no surprise to anyone. The team management set them up because after Anaïs Bescond's illness-related absence, there would have been “no large selection” (in the original: “pas trop le choix”). She ended the season prematurely after the World Cup relay and waived the mass start and the final World Cup at Holmenkollen.

In May 2019, Chevalier announced that she was three months pregnant and was therefore suspending the 2019/20 season. She competed in her first competition after the break as second in a local race in February 2020.

Personal

Chevalier attended the sports boarding school in Villard-de-Lans , which the brothers Simon and Martin Fourcade attended before her . After graduating from school, she studied sports science at the University of Grenoble and joined the ski team at French Customs in July 2014. In September 2017 Chevalier married the former biathlete and cross-country skier Martin Bouchet, with whom she had a daughter in autumn 2019. She cites painting as one of her hobbies and describes herself as a “bookworm”.

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race Relay race
No. date place discipline
1. 17th Dec 2016 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Nové Město na Moravě persecution
No. date place discipline
1. Nov 30, 2014 SwedenSweden Ostersund Mixed season 3
2. Jan. 24, 2016 Flag of Italy.svg Antholz Season 4
3. Jan. 7, 2018 GermanyGermany Oberhof Season 3
4th March 10, 2018 SloveniaSlovenia Pokljuka Single mixed season 4
5. 17th March 2018 NorwayNorway Oslo Season 5
6th Jan. 19, 2019 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding Season 6
7th 17th Feb 2019 United StatesUnited States Midway Mixed season 7
2with Justine Braisaz , Anaïs Bescond and Marie Dorin-Habert
3with Anaïs Bescond, Célia Aymonier and Justine Braisaz
5 with Anaïs Bescond, Célia Aymonier and Marie Dorin-Habert
6thwith Julia Simon , Anaïs Bescond and Justine Braisaz
7thwith Quentin Fillon Maillet , Simon Desthieux and Célia Aymonier

World Cup placements

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).

  • 1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
  • Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
  • Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
  • Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
  • Relay: including mixed relays
placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place 1 7th 8th
2nd place 1 2 5 8th
3rd place 2 1 3 4th 10
Top 10 1 10 7th 5 29 52
Scoring 9 28 26th 13 29 105
Starts 12 39 31 13 29 124
Status: end of season 2018/19

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

Individual competitions Relay competitions
sprint persecution singles Mass start Women's relay Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2014 winter Olympics | SochiRussiaRussia  47. 44. - - DNF -
Olympic Winter Games 2018 winter Olympics | PyeongchangKorea SouthSouth Korea  16. 24. 28. 29 bronze 3. -

Biathlon world championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships Individual competitions Relay competitions
year place singles sprint persecution Mass start Women's relay Mixed relay
2016 NorwayNorway Oslo 28. 26th 15th 30th 2. -
2017 AustriaAustria Hochfilzen 38. 3. 11. 13. 3. 2.
2019 SwedenSweden Ostersund 49. 32. DNS - 8th. 8th.

European biathlon championships

Results at the European Championships:

European championships singles sprint persecution Season
year place
2015 EstoniaEstonia Otepää 4th 13. 9. 3.

Junior World Championships

Results at the Biathlon World Championships for Juniors

Junior World Championships singles sprint persecution Season
year place
2012 FinlandFinland Kontiolahti 42. 2. 12. 5.
2013 AustriaAustria Obertilliach 31. 4th 9. 7th

Web links

Commons : Anaïs Chevalier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jerry Kokesh: Anaïs Chevalier: Hard work, sacrifice and a World Cup victory ! In: Biathlonworld number 42/2017, pp. 94–98.
  2. ↑ After her only penalty loop, she returned to the track on the wrong side of the boundary, cf. Interview on dauphinordique.com. Released February 5, 2010. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  3. ↑ Interview on dauphinordique.com. Released February 5, 2010. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  4. ↑ Les Sept Laux biathlètes of Marie Dorin et les soeur Chevalier offrent l'or au comité du Dauphiné! on nordicmag.info. Released March 30, 2014. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  5. ↑ Anaïs Chevalier: “Je ne sais pas à quoi m'attendre” on nordicmag.info. Released January 25, 2014. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  6. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2014/2015, pp. 444–447.
  7. ↑ a b Sylvain Lartaud: Anais Chevalier, la résurrection . In: Sportmag , number 98 (04/2017). Pp. 44-45. Available online.
  8. ↑ Les soeurs Chevalier en Coupe du monde on ledauphine.com. Released December 14, 2015. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  9. ↑ Anaïs Chevalier: “J'ai envie de passer un cap” on nordicmag.info. Released November 6, 2016. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  10. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2017/2018, pp. 350–353.
  11. ↑ Anaïs Chevalier renversée par une voiture et blessée on lequipe.fr. Released May 24, 2017. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  12. ↑ a b c Giulio Gasparin: The fighter heart of Anaïs Chevalier . In: Biathlonworld , number 50/2019, pp. 80–84.
  13. ↑ Championnats du monde: Anaïs Chevalier était “carrément hors de forme” sur le relais on lequipe.fr. Released March 16, 2019. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  14. ↑ Championnats du monde: Anaïs Chevalier forfait sur la mass start on lequipe.fr. Released March 17, 2019. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  15. ↑ Anaïs Chevalier va devenir maman et manquera la Saison 2019-2020 de Coupe du monde on lequipe.fr. Released May 15, 2019. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  16. ↑ Anaïs Chevalier de retour à la compétition on ledauphine.com. Released February 24, 2020. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  17. ↑ Anaïs Chevalier va chercher la médaille olympique on univ-grenoble-alpes.fr. Released January 29, 2018. Accessed April 7, 2020.
  18. ↑ Anaïs CHEVALIER (ski nordique) on douane.gov.fr. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  19. ↑ Biathlon: Anaïs Chevalier est maman on nordicmag.info. Released October 29, 2019. Accessed April 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Chevalier, Anaïs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chevalier, Anais
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Revel