Christian Dumont

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Christian Dumont biathlon
Association FranceFrance France
date of birth March 19, 1963
place of birth Fourcatier
date of death August 6, 2021
Career
society Longevilles-Mont-d'Or
Debut in the World Cup 1984 (?)
End of career 1994
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
IBU Biathlon world championships
silver 1990 Kontiolahti series
bronze 1990 Oslo team
World Cup balance
 

Christian Dumont (born March 19, 1963 in Fourcatier ; † August 6, 2021 ) was a French biathlete , biathlon trainer and official. From 1998 to 2007 he was the head coach of the French men's biathlon team around Raphaël Poirée .

Active career

Christian Dumont was active for the ski club in Longevilles-Mont-d'Or . He belonged to the generation that led the French biathlon to the top of the world in the late 1980s. He took the first time in 1986 in Oslo at Biathlon World Championships in part and was the 58th of the sprint. The next major event was the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , where Dumont was again used in the sprint and finished 51st. The 1989 World Championships in Feistritz brought with the 25th place a noticeable improvement on the previous placements at major international events, with the relay he was eighth. This was followed by the most successful World Championships in 1990 in Kontiolahti and Oslo for Dumont. In the individual he was eleventh, with the relay he won the silver medal as a starting runner alongside Xavier Blond , Hervé Flandin and Thierry Gerbier , as well as bronze with the team with Stéphane Bouthiaux , Flandin and Gerbier. The 1991 World Championships in Lahti were less successful . Dumont was 22nd in the individual, 37th in the sprint and sixth in the relay with Blond, Gilles Marguet and Flandin. In the team race, Bouthiaux and Patrice Bailly-Salins were preferred to him. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , the Frenchman achieved similar placings: 42nd in the sprint, 13th in the individual and sixth place with Xavier Blond, Thierry Gerbier and Hervé Flandin in the relay race. The last international championship was the 1993 World Championships in Borovets . Dumont was 38th of the individual and eighth with Blond, Bailly-Salins and Lionel Laurent as the final runner of the season. In the team race, the younger Gilles Marguet, Thierry Dusserre and Lionel Laurent competed alongside the experienced blond and won bronze without Dumont. He competed regularly in the biathlon world cup between 1984 and 1994, but without having achieved any results worth mentioning. For the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he could no longer qualify against the advancing young athletes and ended his career after the season.

Trainer and functionary

After his active career, Dumont, like many biathletes of his generation, made a career with the French Biathlon Federation. He initially looked after the military team from 1994, before taking over the French men's national team as head coach at the side of shooting coach Jean-Pierre Amat for the 1998/99 season . Under Dumont, Raphaël Poirée won the overall World Cup four times, seven times at World Championships and a total of 43 World Cup races. In addition, the French season 2001 world champion and Vincent Defrasne 2006 Olympic champion. With Poirée's resignation at the end of the 2006/07 season , Dumont also gave up his position as national coach to Stéphane Bouthiaux and was appointed sports director of the national teams. When this post was abolished in 2011, he took over the coordination of the national French racing series in biathlon, which he was responsible for until his death.

Personal

Christian Dumont was married and had three children. His son Clément was also active as a biathlete. During his coaching career, he lived in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and after finishing his full-time job with the French Ski Association in 2011 in Provence , where he and his wife ran a holiday home.

In August 2021, Christian Dumont died of a heart attack while on a bicycle tour at the age of 58 .

Biathlon World Cup placements

placement singles sprint tracking Mass start team series total
1st place  
2nd place 1 1
3rd place 1 1
Top 10 2 6th 8th
Scoring 5 2 2 6th 15th
Starts 23 25th     2 6th 56
Status : end of career, data not complete

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personal data
SURNAME Dumont, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French biathlete
BIRTH DATE March 19, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Fourcatier
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2021