Celia Aymonier
Celia Aymonier  
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| birthday | 5th August 1991 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Pontarlier , France | ||||||||||||||
| size | 161 cm | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg | ||||||||||||||
| job | Soldier | ||||||||||||||
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Cross-country skiing biathlon |
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| society | SC Les Fourgs | ||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Frédérick Jean, Franck Badiou | ||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||
| End of career | March 21, 2020 | ||||||||||||||
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Célia Aymonier (born August 5, 1991 in Pontarlier ) is a former French biathlete and cross-country skier . Her greatest success is winning the bronze medal with the French women's relay at the 2017 Biathlon World Championships .
Career
Cross-country skiing
Aymonier grew up near the ski areas of Les Fourgs in the Jura Mountains and came into contact with cross-country skiing early on through her family. At the age of five she took part in her first competitions. At first she competed in both biathlon and cross-country skiing, but initially decided on the second discipline in order to be able to continue running in the classic style - the skating technique is particularly widespread in biathlon . In the winter of 2005/06 she was in the French national team's junior squad for the first time, and from 2008 onwards she competed in international races organized by the FIS , for example in the Alpine Cup (the B series for the World Cup ) or at the Junior World Championships .
Aymonier made her first appearance in the Cross-Country World Cup as a junior in December 2010 in La Clusaz as part of the national group to which the host is entitled. She finished the race in the mass start over 15 kilometers as 52nd and penultimate. After her overall victory in the 2011/12 Alpine Cup , she was appointed to the French World Cup team for the following winter. In December 2012, she came in Québec with 21st place in the sprint for the first time in the points of the highest competition series. In the following years she remained part of the World Cup team, but only reached the top ten in a few competitions. She was most successful in team competitions: As the last runner of the French relay - with Coraline Thomas Hugue , Anouk Faivre-Picon and Aurore Jéan - she finished fourth at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . In the same year she won silver over 10 km classic at the U23 World Championships in Val di Fiemme . In the overall World Cup they reached in winter 2014/15 as the 37th her best result (with two top ten results in Rybinsk in the sprint and 10 km), with which she was indeed best Frenchwoman, but substantially lag behind the Norwegians to Marit Bjørgen to the top had. In May 2015, Aymonier announced that it would focus on biathlon from now on.
biathlon
At the beginning of the 2015/16 season, she finished 16th and third in the sprint at her first starts in the IBU Cup in Idre . At the World Cup debut in Hochfilzen she reached the 57th place in the sprint and 51st place in the subsequent pursuit. In the further course of the season she got her first World Cup points in Ruhpolding with the 39th place in the individual. Her best season position in individual races in her first World Cup winter was 11th in the sprint and in the subsequent pursuit in Presque Isle . At the season highlight, the 2016 Biathlon World Championships in Oslo , she finished 64th in the sprint, and in the overall World Cup she was 48th and fifth-best French.
Aymonier, who stood out in the World Cup because she did not wear gloves during the races, belonged to the tribe of the French team, but was never able to build on the success of her teammates Marie Dorin-Habert , Anaïs Chevalier , Anaïs Bescond or Justine Braisaz , all of whom have competed several times Individual races were on the podium. Meanwhile, Aymonier regularly scored World Cup points, but never got above fourth place as the best result. Their relatively poor shooting performance stood in the way of top results: Dorin-Habert and Chevalier hit an average of 85% of their shots in winter 2017/18, Aymonier only 76% (the value did not change much over the seasons and fluctuated between 73 % and 76%). In her entire World Cup career, Aymonier only managed one fault-free shooting: in the Oslo sprint in March 2019, where with fourth place she also achieved by far the best individual result of her career and only missed the podium by five seconds. The runs of the former cross-country skier, on the other hand, were among the best in the field, here she was close to the leading athletes around Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Denise Herrmann .
While Aymonier never made it onto the podium in individual races, as a regular runner in the French relay - mostly in one of the middle positions - she reached the first three places in 11 out of 19 races. At the 2017 World Championships in Hochfilzen , she won the bronze medal together with Chevalier, Braisaz and Dorin-Habert, eight seconds behind the victorious German team. In January 2018, Aymonier celebrated her first World Cup victory with the relay, and two months later she repeated this success in Oslo. She achieved her third and last World Cup victory in the team in February 2019 in the mixed relay, in which her partner Simon Desthieux also ran. At the World Championships in the same year, Aymonier shot three penalties in the relay race , causing the French team to fall far behind. Aymonier later referred to this race as one of the greatest negative experiences of her career.
After the 2019/20 season, Célia Aymonier ended her career at the age of 28. In her related statement she gave as one reason the changed external conditions due to global warming :
«Alors je me pose la question, que reste-t-il du plaisir à skier sur des pistes enneigées artificiellement, à des températures supérieures à 0 ° C, à faire des entraînements sur des pistes raccourcies pour préserver la neige? »
"So I ask myself what remains of the joy of skiing on trails with artificial snow, at temperatures above 0 ° C, when you have to train on shortened routes to maintain the snow?"
education
Aymonier did her baccalaureate in Pontarlier and then completed training as a nature therapist , which she also considered useful for practicing her sport. In 2011 she began studying psychology, which she devoted herself to more intensely after her career in order to graduate.
statistics
Cross-country skiing world cup statistics
The table shows the placements achieved in detail.
- 1st – 3rd place: Number of podium placements
- Top 10: Number of places in the top ten
- Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks
- Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline
- Note: In the distance races, the classification is based on the FIS.
| placement | Distance races a | Skiathlon pursuit |
sprint | Stage race b |
total | team | |||||
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| ≤ 5 km | ≤ 10 km | ≤ 15 km | ≤ 30 km | > 30 km | sprint | Season | |||||
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| 2nd place | |||||||||||
| 3rd place | |||||||||||
| Top 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| Scoring | 6th | 7th | 6th | 7th | 2 | 28 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Starts | 6th | 14th | 1 | 2 | 9 | 20th | 3 | 55 | 3 | 3 | |
| Status: end of career | |||||||||||
Biathlon World Cup victories
| No. | date | place | discipline |
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| 1. | Jan. 7, 2018 |
 Oberhof
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Season 1 |
| 2. | 17th Mar 2018 |
 Oslo
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Season 2 |
| 3. | 17th Feb 2019 |
 Midway
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Mixed season 3 |
Bitahlon 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 |
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| 1st place | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 2nd place | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 3rd place | 4th | 4th | ||||
| Top 10 | 8th | 5 | 18th | 31 | ||
| Scoring | 7th | 30th | 26th | 14th | 19th | 96 |
| Starts | 12 | 41 | 30th | 14th | 19th | 116 |
winter Olympics
Results at Olympic Winter Games (biathlon):
| Individual competitions | Relay competitions | |||||
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| sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Women's relay | Mixed relay | |
Olympic Winter Games 2018  | Pyeongchang
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- | - | 48. | - | - | - |
Web links
- Célia Aymonier in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Célia Aymonier in the IBU database (English)
- Célia Aymonier in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Aymoniers personal homepage
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b biography on Aymonier's homepage celiaymonier.fr. Accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Célia Aymonier: Un changement d'orientation on celiaymonier.fr. Released May 6, 2015. Accessed March 31, 2020.
- ^ Andréa La Perna: Biathlon: Célia Aymonier prend sa retraite on sport.francetvinfo.fr. Released March 21, 2020. Accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Célia Aymonier in the IBU database (English)
- ↑ In the winter of 2018/19, she took fifth place in the ranking of the fastest female runners given by Denise Herrmann, with run times that were 4.6% faster than the average of the field of participants, cf. IBU Biathlon Guide 2019/2020 , p. 400. Available as PDF .
- ↑ a b Florian Burgaud: Célia Aymonier: “Toute ma vie va changer” on nordicmag.info. Released March 22, 2020. Accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ À 28 ans, la biathlète française Célia Aymonier annonce sa retraite on lequipe.fr. Released March 21, 2020. Accessed March 31, 2020.
- ↑ Célia Aymonier: Mon cœur chavire on celiaymonier.fr. Released March 2, 2020. Accessed March 31, 2020.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Aymonier, Celia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French biathlete and cross-country skier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pontarlier |