Audrey Vaillancourt

Audrey Vaillancourt
Association	Canada
birthday	June 26, 1991
place of birth	Quebec
Career
job	Student
society	Courcelette Équipe du Québec
Trainer	Martin Tremblay
Admission to the national team	2012
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2012
Debut in the World Cup	2013
status	active
Medal table
EM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × NAM medals 3 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 0 × 1 × KJM medals 6 × 8 × 5 ×
European biathlon championships gold 2014 Nové Město singles North American Biathlon Championships gold 2013 Whistler sprint gold 2013 Whistler persecution gold 2013 Whistler Mass start  Biathlon Junior World Championships bronze 2009 Canmore sprint
World Cup balance
last change: February 12, 2014

Audrey Vaillancourt (born June 26, 1991 in Québec ) is a Canadian biathlete .

Audrey Vaillancourt lives in Québec and trains at the national biathlon training center in Valcartier . She starts for Courcelette Équipe du Québec and is coached by Martin Tremblay. She is studying at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières . She began playing soccer at the age of four and cross-country skiing with François and Maxime Leboeuf at the age of six . As a twelve year old she finally switched to biathlon. She has been a member of the Québec squad since 2004, and of the Canadian junior squad since 2007.

Vaillancourt made her international debut at the Junior World Championships 2008 in Ruhpolding , where she was 17th of the individual and 43rd of the sprint, was able to improve to 27th in the pursuit race and was eighth in the relay race with Yolaine Oddou and Tatiana Chesham . Things went much better the following year at home in Canmore . In the individual she was ninth, won the bronze medal in the sprint behind Olga Galitsch and Zhang Yan and was fifth in the pursuit. Vaillancourt missed another medal in 2010 with Rose-Marie Côté and Julia Ransom in the relay race, in individual she finished 22nd, in sprint 44th and in pursuit race 26th. 2011 came in Nové Město na Moravě an eleventh place in the individual, again a 44th place in the sprint, 32nd place in the pursuit and with Yolaine Oddou and Emma Lunder eighth place with the relay. The Canadian ran her last Junior World Championships in 2012 in Kontiolahti , where she achieved good results as 15th in the individual, 16th in the sprint and 17th in the pursuit. In the relay she finished 14th alongside Emma Lodge and Emma Lunder. At the North American Invitational 2012 in Jericho , she won all three junior competitions with sprint, pursuit and mass start, relegating her compatriots Rose-Marie Côté and Andrea Mayo and the American Danika Frisbie in second and third place respectively.

For women, Vaillancourt made her international debut at the start of the 2012/13 season in Idre , where she immediately reached the points as 34th and 17th of two sprint races. A little later she was able to achieve her first single-digit placings in Ridnaun with seventh place in the sprint and sixth in the pursuit. At the beginning of 2013 , she competed with Rosanna Crawford , Zina Kocher and Megan Heinicke in a relay race in Ruhpolding, her first race in the World Cup and came in 14th. In the first individual race, a sprint, she came in 81st place. In Antholz , the Canadian improved her best performance to 55th place in the sprint, with which she was able to qualify for a pursuit race for the first time, in which she came quite close to the points ranks as 49th. Due to the good results in the IBU and World Cup, she was able to qualify for the Canadian World Championship team. At the world title competitions in 2013 in Nové Město na Moravě Vaillancourt was 76th of the individual, 83rd of the sprint and with Rosanna Crawford, Megan Heinicke and Zina Kocher 12th of the relay race.

Vaillancourt was nationally at the Canadian Championships 2007 in Charlo youth champion in sprint and runner-up in individual and pursuit. In 2008 she defended the sprint title in Callaghan Valley , was again second in the individual and third in the relay race, in 2009 she was runner-up in Valcartier in the sprint and third in the individual and with the relay. In 2010 Vaillancourt won the individual junior title in Canmore and was also runner-up in the pursuit and third in the sprint race. The following year she was third in Charlo behind Yolaine Oddou and Emma Lunder, in the sprint and pursuit behind Oddou and in front of Lunder second and with Samuel Laforest-Jean and Rémi Grégoire Jacques as representing Quebec II runner-up in the junior races . In 2011 she was named Canadian Biathlete of the Year . In 2012 , she won the sprint, pursuit and mass start titles in Valcartier.

Biathlon 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
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring					3	3
Starts	1	3	1		3	8th
As of February 17, 2013

Web links

• Audrey Vaillancourt in the database of the IBU (English)
• Homepage (French)
• Biathlon Canada Media Guide 2012/13 (English / French; PDF; 1.6 MB)