Fabien Claude

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Fabien Claude biathlon
Fabien Claude in Oberhof (2020)
Association FranceFrance France
birthday 22nd December 1994 (age 25)
place of birth Epinal
size 182 cm
Weight 80 kg
Career
society Ski Club de Basse Sur Le Rupt
ski nordique
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2015
European Cup / IBU Cup victories 5 (4 individual wins)
Debut in the World Cup 2016
status active
Medal table
JOS medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
JWM medals 2 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
JEM medals 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Youth Olympic Winter Games
bronze 2012 Innsbruck Mixed relay
IBU Biathlon Junior World Championships
gold 2013 Obertilliach sprint
bronze 2013 Obertilliach Season
gold 2014 Presque Isle persecution
silver 2014 Presque Isle Season
silver 2015 Minsk-Raubitschy sprint
bronze 2015 Minsk-Raubitschy Season
IBU Biathlon Junior European Championships
gold 2015 Otepää sprint
silver 2015 Otepää Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 19. ( 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup 05th (2019/20)
Sprint World Cup 23. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup 14. (2019/20)
Mass start world cup 29. (2019/20)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
singles 0 0 1
Season 0 0 1
last change: April 8, 2020

Fabien Claude (born December 22, 1994 in Épinal ) is a French biathlete . Claude was Junior World Champion in 2013 and 2014 and made his debut in the World Cup in 2016. There he was on the podium in two races in winter 2019/20.

Athletic career

Claude grew up in Basse-sur-le-Rupt in the Vosges department . In his youth he trained both cross-country skiing and biathlon and in 2012 took part in both disciplines at the first ever Youth Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck . In biathlon he won the bronze medal in the mixed relay together with Léa Ducordeau , Chloé Chevalier and Aristide Bègue , while he missed top ten results in the individual competitions as 16th in the sprint and 11th in the pursuit. In the following years he was one of the most successful international biathletes of his age group: In 2013 he was the youth sprint world champion with the best running time in the competition despite two shooting errors . The following winter he won the title of junior world champion in pursuit, and in 2015 also that of junior european champion in sprint . During the three years he always took the position of the last runner of the French relay at major events (with changing teammates, but always together with Aristide Bègue, who was about the same age) and won four World Cup and European Championship medals with her, but none of them gold.

From the 2014/15 season , Claude was a member of the French squad for the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult division. There he reached the top ten for the first time in his fourth appearance and won the sprint in Nové Město na Moravě in January 2016 with 3.6 seconds ahead of Timofei Lapschin , where he was the fastest runner in the field. As a direct result, Claude received his first World Cup appearance in Ruhpolding : In the 20-kilometer individual race, he was the only starter to hit less than half of the targets and, with the resulting eleven penalty minutes, finished 96th out of 103 despite one of the fastest times rated participants. He finished the season in the IBU Cup, where he was the best-placed Frenchman in seventh overall.

Claude at the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof 2020

Claude remained part of the French B-squad in the following years, but received regular nominations for the World Cup. In 2017 he took part in the World Championships in Hochfilzen as a substitute runner and instead of Simon Fourcade, who was ten years older, he competed in the individual competition. The coach of the French men's team, Stéphane Bouthiaux , justified the exchange with the fact that he assumed that he would use Claude more often at major events in the future and would give him the opportunity to prove himself in front of a large audience. At his first start in the adult world championship, the then 22-year-old Claude finished 25th. Until 2019 he achieved several results among the top 40 athletes in the World Cup and thus collected World Cup points, but he remained without a top ten result. In the overall World Cup he finished 55th, 85th and 47th, and always presented himself as an above-average runner: In winter 2018/19 he ran the eighth best times in the entire field. His hit rate of 73 percent was well below that of his teammates. So he did not succeed in moving up permanently to the first French team, in which Martin Fourcade, Quentin Fillon Maillet , Simon Desthieux and Antonin Guigonnat each stood on the podium several times. Meanwhile, Claude was one of the leading athletes in the IBU Cup, won four more races from 2017 to 2019 and took fourth place in the overall standings in the 2017/18 season.

At the start of the 2019/20 World Cup, Claude placed seventh in the top ten for the first time in the 20-kilometer individual race in Östersund, in a four- fold French victory led by Martin Fourcade. In the season of Hochfilzen, in which he was called after Fourcades and Desthieux 'waiver, Claude shot the only penalty loop of his team. Nevertheless, he was together with Guigonnat, Émilien Jacquelin and Fillon Maillet as third for the first time on a World Cup podium. He succeeded once again in the Pokljuka singles, remaining as one of only five athletes without a miss and was less than half a minute behind the first and second placed Johannes Thingnes Bø and Martin Fourcade. At the 2020 World Championships , Claude was a substitute runner like three years earlier. His only assignment was again the 20-kilometer competition, in which he finished 19th. He took the same place at the end of the season in the overall World Cup ranking (and fifth place in the individual discipline ranking). Although he clearly lagged behind Fourcade, Fillon Maillet, Jacquelin and Desthieux - all four of whom were among the top 6 of the overall World Cup - he achieved by far the best result of his career to date.

Personal

Claude's mother Christine is a former cross-country skier and biathlete who took eighth place in individual races at the 1984 World Championships . As the supervisor of the local ski club de Basse Sur Le Rupt ski nordique , she was the first trainer of Fabien, his older brother Florent and his younger brother Émilien , all three of whom became biathletes. Florent Claude was a member of the French B-squad up to and including 2016 and took on Belgian nationality in 2017; he became one of the leading athletes on the evolving Belgian biathlon team. Fabien started partly in parallel with his older brother in the IBU Cup and in the World Cup and competed with him in relays for the Vosges team at French championships: in 2013 they won the title together with Florian Rivot . The two brothers lived in a shared apartment in Prémanon and were training partners.

Claude's father Gilles was a carpenter and motor sportsman. He died in January 2020 on a snowmobile excursion in northern Québec . During the days when he was thought to have disappeared, Fabien Claude stood on the World Cup podium for the first time in the Pokljuka individual race. He dedicated this success to his father. He then decided not to take part in the mass start and drove to France, where the family received news of his death. In an interview during the World Championships the following month, he described his participation there as an opportunity to escape grief and go on with his life (in the original: "C'est un bon moyen de s'évader ici et de continuer sa vie. Ici, c ' est grandiose. ").

World Cup statistics

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 1 1 2
Top 10 2 1 1 3 7th
Scoring 5 10 11 4th 3 33
Starts 9 18th 14th 4th 3 48
Status: end of season 2019/20

Web links

Commons : Fabien Claude  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fabien Claude. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Success overview on fabien.claude3brothers.fr. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  3. ↑ Composition Collectifs Nationaux Biathlon 2014/2015 on ffs.fr. Released May 15, 2014. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  4. ↑ BMW IBU WORLD CUP BIATHLON - 2015/2016 RUHPOLDING - MEN 20 KM INDIVIDUAL - Competition Analysis in the IBU database. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
  5. ↑ AFP: Mondiaux Hochfilzen: Fin de compétition pour Simon Fourcade, remplacé par Fabien Claude on eurosport.fr. Published on February 13, 2017. Accessed on April 8, 2020. “On pense depuis un moment qu'on va pouvoir compter sur Fabien Claude dans le futur et c'est une bonne opportunité pour lui de se lancer dans le grand bain dans une grande compétition. "(in German, for example:" We have believed for a while that we can rely on Fabien Claude in the future and that is a good opportunity for him to jump into the deep end at a major event. ")
  6. ↑ Fabien Claude in the IBU database (English) and IBU Biathlon Guide 2019/2020, pp. 374–377. Available as PDF .
  7. ↑ Coupe du monde: Le relais français sans Martin Fourcade ni Simon Desthieux à Hochfilzen dimanche on lequipe.fr. Released December 14, 2019. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  8. ↑ Le Vosgien Fabien Claude sera bien au départ de l'individuel des Mondiaux ce mercredi on vosgesmatin.fr. Released February 17, 2020. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  9. ↑ a b c Les frères Claude ensemble sur le net on nordicmag.info. Released November 27, 2015. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  10. ↑ Mirko Hominal: Les Vosgiens ont fait tout juste on ski-nordique.net. Released March 31, 2013. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  11. ^ Marie Coulon: Accident de motoneige au Québec: le corps retrouvé est celui de Gilles Claude, 58 years on francetvinfo.fr. Released January 25, 2020. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  12. ↑ "We love you, Papa" on spiegel.de. Released January 24, 2020. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  13. ↑ Jean-Pierre Bidet ( L'Équipe ): Coupe du monde: Fabien Claude 3e de l'indivduel de Pokljuka après la tragique disparition de son père on lequipe.fr. Released January 24, 2020. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ Mass start de Pokljuka: quels Français au départ avec Martin Fourcade? on ledauphine.com. Released January 26, 2020. Accessed April 8, 2020.
  15. ↑ Benoit Prato: Fabien Claude: "C'est dommage d'être obligé de vivre ce genre de drame pour grandir d'un coup" on ledauphine.com. Released February 19, 2020. Accessed April 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Claude, Fabien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Epinal