Antonin Guigonnat

Antonin Guigonnat
Association	France
birthday	2nd July 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Ambilly , France
size	178 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2011
European Cup / IBU Cup victories	7 (4 individual wins)
Debut in the World Cup	2014
World Cup victories	1 relay win
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Biathlon world championships silver 2019 Östersund Mass start  European biathlon championships bronze 2015 Otepää sprint Winter military world games silver 2017 Sochi 20 km patrol race silver 2017 Sochi Mixed relay  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2010 Torsby Season bronze 2012 Kontiolahti Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	11. ( 2018/19 )
Individual World Cup	22. (2018/19)
Sprint World Cup	5. (2018/19)
Pursuit World Cup	7. (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	13. ( 2017/18 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. sprint 0 1 2 persecution 0 1 0 Mass start 0 1 1 Season 1 3 2
last change: April 6, 2020

Antonin Guigonnat (born July 2, 1991 in Ambilly ) is a French biathlete . Since 2017 Guigonnat has regularly competed in the World Cup , where he celebrated his first victory as a runner in the single mixed relay in 2018. At the 2019 World Championships , he won the silver medal in the mass start.

Career

Youth and junior area and assignments in the IBU Cup (until 2017)

Guigonnat grew up in Morzine - Avoriaz , Upper Savoy , where he began cross-country skiing before switching to biathlon as a teenager. He made his international debut at the 2010 World Youth Championships in Torsby , where he won the silver medal in the relay race behind the Russian team with Simon Desthieux and Florent Claude, who were a few months younger . As the best individual results he achieved 18th place in the sprint (as the best athlete in his country) and 12th in the pursuit. In 2011 he was French junior champion in the mass start, the following year he finished with the relay at the Junior World Championships - again together with Desthieux and Florent Claude, also with Baptiste Jouty - the fourth place, but moved up to the bronze rank due to the disqualification of the Russian team seven years later. In the 15-kilometer individual race of the European Championships of the same year, he was sixth.

From March 2011 Guigonnat received assignments in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult area after the World Cup . He contested his debut race in Annecy - Le Grand-Bornand in his home department and achieved a 43rd place in the sprint as the best result. He was clearly behind his teammates like Simon Desthieux, who subsequently achieved several top ten results in the IBU Cup and was promoted to the World Cup team from 2012. Guigonnat established himself in the B-squad: In the overall ranking of the IBU Cup he finished 16th in 2012/13 , in the following season he won his first race as the last runner of the relay (around Rémi Borgeot , Baptiste Jouty and Florent Claude) and stood in the further course of the winter also in two individual races as second on the podium. As the best French overall, he was nominated for the World Cup for the first time in March 2014, but missed the points of the top 40 athletes. By the end of the 2016/17 season, Guigonnat stood on the podium in a total of 17 IBU Cup races (of which he won 4), was among the top ten in the overall standings several times - including second in the winter of 2014/15 - but did not make it French A-squad, although he was used several times for short phases in the World Cup. His best result was a 24th place in the 20-kilometer individual race in Oslo in March 2015.

Promotion and establishment in the senior squad (since 2017)

Guigonnat (r.) In front of Tarjei Bø , Dmytro Pidrutschnyj and Quentin Fillon Maillet in the 2019 World Cup pursuit

Of the first six competitions in the IBU Cup 2017/18 , Guigonnat won three and was nominated in December 2017 as one of six French for the home World Cup in Annecy-Le Grand-Bornand. He later stated that he saw the race as a “last chance” and at that point - at the age of 26 and after six years in the B-squad - he was ready to start his “somewhat average” career with one last race in front of his family to end. With the high starting number 88 (out of about 100 participants), he made no mistakes and was third behind Johannes Thingnes Bø and Martin Fourcade , surpassing his best World Cup result by 21 places. In the subsequent pursuit he was twelfth and subsequently took part in all other World Cups of the winter, where he was again on the podium behind Bø and Fourcade at the mass start of Ruhpolding. He was nominated for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang (where he achieved two 19th places in the pursuit and in the mass start as the best individual result) and also received regular relay appearances: in Kontiolahti he won in March 2018 together with Anaïs Chevalier in the single mixed Relay his first World Cup race, with the men's relay he finished second in Ruhpolding. At the end of the season, Guigonnat attributed what he himself called the “breakthrough” not to physical progress, but primarily to training with a mental coach , which enabled him to shoot more focused overall. In the overall standings, at the end of the World Cup season, he finished 20th as fourth-best French behind Martin Fourcade, Simon Desthieux and Quentin Fillon Maillet . With a hit rate of 85 percent, he was the second best shooter on his team.

In 2018, the French ski association formally accepted Guigonnat into the A-team. In winter 2018/19 he placed in the points at all World Cup races. After three podium results in the first months of the season (each time with victories by Johannes Thingnes Bø), he won the silver medal in the mass start behind Dominik Windisch in his first World Cup participation . Guigonnat came in eighth to the last shooting and hit four out of five targets in wind and snowfall, while the long leading Bø fired five misses. In the final sprint for second place, Guigonnat prevailed against Julian Eberhard . At the end of winter he was eleventh in the overall World Cup. In the following season he did not build on these results: He reached the top ten in only one World Cup race, was only considered a substitute runner in the French team for the World Championships in Antholz and did not appear at any World Cup. During the entire season, Guigonnat only ran in two of six relay races (each as a starting runner). He was behind Fourcade, Fillon Maillet, Desthieux and also behind the four years younger Émilien Jacquelin . These four athletes finished in 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th in the overall World Cup, while Guigonnat reached the weakest result since his regular appointment to the World Cup as 27th.

Personal

Antonin Guigonnat's mother is a midwife, his father founded his own tree felling company as a former forest worker. His younger sister Gilonne is also a biathlete and has been competing in the IBU Cup since winter 2019/20 . Guigonnat began a dual degree in economics and business administration, which he broke off in 2012 to concentrate on sport. Until 2018 he worked in his father's company in the spring, then he was accepted by the army into the military ski team. Since the beginning of the 2010s he has been in a relationship with the biathlete Enora Latuillière , who was in the meantime part of the French women's world cup team and won a World Cup medal with the relay in 2015. Latuillière and Guigonnat live in a shared apartment with cross-country skier Baptiste Gros near the biathlon stadium in La Féclaz in Savoy.

statistics

World Cup victories

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	10 Mar 2018	Kontiolahti	Single mixed season 1

¹with Anaïs Chevalier .

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	1
2nd place		1	1	1	3	6th
3rd place		2		1	2	5
Top 10	1	6th	5	3	12	27
Scoring	5	21st	19th	12	13	70
Starts	8th	30th	22nd	12	13	85
Status: end of season 2019/20

World Cup ratings

Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2014/15	17th	45.	16	72.	16	61.	-	-	49	62.
2015/16	-	-	-	-	10	68.	-	-	10	89.
2016/17	-	-	3	89.	9	69.	-	-	12	86.
2017/18	30th	25th	98	28.	121	22nd	130	13.	379	20th
2018/19	44	22nd	271	5.	253	7th	122	15th	686	11.
2019/20	30th	33.	126	19th	70	24.	28	31.	254	27.

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2018	Pyeongchang	23.	27.	19th	19th	5.	-

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2019	Ostersund	-	20th	7th	2.	6th	-	-

Junior World Championships

Results at the Junior World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2010	Torsby	39.	18th	12.	2.
2012	Kontiolahti	31.	34.	25th	4th

Web links

Commons : Antonin Guigonnat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Antonin Guigonnat in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Antonin Guigonnat. Retrieved February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Mariya Osolodkina: From the IBU Cup in the national team . In: Biathlonworld , number 46/2018. Pp. 60-65. Available as PDF .
3. ↑ Mirko Hominal: Gros plan sur Antonin Guigonnat on ski-nordique.net. Released October 26, 2011. Accessed April 6, 2020.
4. ^ Antonin Guigonnat sélectionné en coupe du monde on ski-nordique.net. Released March 19, 2014. Accessed April 6, 2020.
5. ↑ At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, Guigonnat was part of the six-member Groupe Coupe du Monde (in German: World Cup group) of the French Ski Association (see Composition des Collectifs Nationaux Biathlon 2015/2016 on ffs.fr. Published on May 6, 2015. Accessed April 6, 2020.) He missed the points in seven out of eight missions and was no longer considered in the World Cup from February 2016 until the end of the season.
6. ^ ^{A b} Ivanna Nikolskaya: Who is behind the athlete Antonin Guigonnat? . In: Biathlonworld , number 49/2018, pp. 84–88.
7. ^ Antonin Guigonnat: "J'étais prêt à arrêter" ma carrière au Grand Bornand en 2017 on lequipe.fr. Published on December 18, 2019. Accessed on April 6, 2020. "J'arrivais au Grand Bornand pour terminer une carrière un peu moyenne sur une dernière course devant la famille."
8. ↑ Antonin Guigonnat: ANTONIN Guigonnat: L'ASPECT MENTAL EST ESSENTIEL AU BIATHLON on sans-filtre.fr. Released April 5, 2018. Accessed April 6, 2020.
9. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2018/2019, p. 338f. Available as PDF .
10. ↑ Collectifs Nationaux 2018/2019 - BIATHLON on ffs.fr. Released June 1, 2018. Accessed April 6, 2020.
11. ↑ Mondiaux: Antonin Guigonnat en argent sur la mass start on lequipe.fr. Released March 17, 2019. Accessed April 6, 2020.
12. ↑ Elisabeth Pineau ( Le Monde ): Aux Mondiaux de biathlon, duel à… trois pour une couronne on lemonde.fr. Released February 13, 2020. Accessed April 6, 2020.
13. ↑ Benoît Prato: Cinq choses à savoir sur Antonin Guigonnat, médaillé d'argent de la mass start on ledauphine.com. Released March 17, 2019. Accessed April 6, 2020.