Florent Claude
Florent Claude 
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 France (until 2016)
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| birthday | 11th November 1991 (age 28) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Remiremont , France | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| job | Biathlete | |||||||||||||||||||||
| society | Basse sur le rupt | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Debut in the World Cup | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| World Cup balance | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 34th ( 2019/20 ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual World Cup | 31. (2019/20) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sprint World Cup | 33. (2019/20) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Pursuit World Cup | 36th (2019/20) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Mass start world cup | 45th (2019/20) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| last change: March 17th, 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Florent Claude (born November 11, 1991 in Remiremont ) is a Belgian-French biathlete . He initially started for France, became youth world champion with the relay in 2009 and made his debut in the 2011 biathlon world cup . After being demoted from the French national squad, he took on Belgian citizenship in 2017. He has been representing Belgium in the World Cup since the 2017/18 season.
Career
Successes in the youth field and assignments in the French B-squad (until 2016)
Claude's sporting career began in the ski club of his home town of Basse-sur-le-Rupt in the Vosges . He competed in his first international races in 2008 as part of the IBU Junior Cup . The following year he took part in the Youth World Championships in 2009 , where he finished seventh in the sprint as the best individual result and won the relay competition as the starting runner of the French team around Clement Jacquelin and Ludwig Ehrhart . At the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival , Claude won the bronze medal in the pursuit. Until 2012 he competed in the world championships of his age group every year and won further medals: in 2010 in Torsby he won silver in the youth relay race with Antonin Guigonnat and Simon Desthieux ; In 2012 in Kontiolahti he won the silver medal behind Maxim Zwetkow in the junior sprint . The French junior relay finished fourth in Kontiolahti, but later moved up to the bronze rank due to the disqualification of the originally third-placed Russians.
At the age of 19, Claude made his debut in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult division, in the winter of 2010/11 . His best result of the season was a 20th place in the Altenberg sprint. In May 2011, the French Ski Federation ( Fédération Française de Ski ; FFS) appointed him to the national team's B squad, which was supervised by Julien Robert (from 2014 by Lionel Laurent ). Claude was part of the second French team for more than five years and during this time received almost 60 appearances in the IBU Cup, in which he achieved third place in the pursuit of Ridnaun in December 2015 as the best individual result. With the relay he won an IBU Cup race in December 2013 in Obertilliach. Occasionally, Claude has been used in the Biathlon World Cup over the years . His debut there, the 20-kilometer competition in Östersund in November 2011, was the only race in which he started (37th) for France and achieved points in the top 40. It was no longer taken into account in the FFS squad for the 2016/17 season announced in April 2016.
Leading force in the Belgian team (since 2016)
In a Facebook post in June 2016, Claude announced that he was aiming for Belgian citizenship (in addition to French). He doesn't want to end his career at the age of 24 and instead compete in international biathlon for Belgium. Until the early 2010s, Belgian athletes played no role in the World Cup; from 2014/15, the naturalized German Michael Rösch was the first athlete in the country to regularly reach the points. In an interview in April 2017, Claude rated Rösch's successes as “inspiring” and a good sign that it is possible to achieve good results with a small country. Claude received Belgian citizenship in June 2017. Since the French association FFS waived the blocking period of two years, which is otherwise provided after a change of nation, it was able to start for Belgium from the 2017/18 season . In the Belgian World Cup relays, he took the position of second runner after Michael Rösch, who passed the lead to Claude in both Hochfilzen and Oberhof. In Oberhof, when visibility was poor, Claude only needed two reload cartridges and held first place, while the two runners who followed, Thierry Langer and Tom Lahaye-Goffart , ultimately fell back to 13th place. He also regularly reached the points in individual World Cup races, his best result of the season was an 18th place in the Annecy pursuit in December. Together with Rösch, Claude was part of the Belgian team for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang .
In the following years, Claude was placed several times among the top 40 athletes in the World Cup. He achieved his first top ten result as tenth in the pursuit of Hochfilzen in December 2018. After Michael Rösch's resignation in January 2019, Claude took the leading position in the Belgian biathlon team and was used as the starting runner throughout the relays. He finished the winter of 2019/20 as 34th in the overall World Cup ranking .
Personal
Florent Claude is the oldest of three brothers, all three of whom had biathlon careers. Fabien , who was in the meantime his training partner and lived with him in a shared apartment in Prémanon , made his debut in the World Cup in 2016, Emilien won a bronze medal with the relay at the Junior World Championships in 2018. The brothers' mother, Christine Claude , is a former cross-country skier and biathlete and took eighth place in the individual race at the 1984 Biathlon World Championships . The father was a carpenter and motor sportsman. He died in January 2020 on a snowmobile excursion in northern Québec .
statistics
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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| Top 10 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Scoring | 6th | 11 | 11 | 1 | 15th | 44 |
| Starts | 8th | 28 | 16 | 1 | 15th | 68 |
| Status: end of season 2019/20 | ||||||
Biathlon world championships
Results at world championships:
| World Championship | Individual competitions | Relay competitions | ||||||
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| year | place | sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Men's relay | Mixed relay | Single mixed relay |
| 2019 |
 Ostersund
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71. | - | 32. | - | 23. | - | - |
| 2020 |
 Antholz
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34. | 32. | 25th | - | 19th | - | 20th |
winter Olympics
Results at Olympic Winter Games:
| Individual competitions | Relay competitions | |||||
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| sprint | persecution | singles | Mass start | Men's relay | Mixed relay | |
Olympic Winter Games 2018  | Pyeongchang
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55. | 57. | 54. | - | - | - |
Web links
- Florent Claude in the database of the IBU (English)
- Personal website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mirko Hominal: FOJE 2009 / Biathlon: Florent Claude médaille de bronze, c'est le premier podium de la France! on ski-nordique.net. February 18, 2009.
- ↑ Results of the relay competition at the Junior World Championships 2012 on biathlonresults.com. Retrieved August 3, 2020.
- ↑ COLLECTIFS NATIONAUX BIATHLON 2011/2012 on ffs.fr. May 18, 2011.
- ↑ Biathlon: la fédération dévoile les équipes de France 2016/17 on nordicmag.info. April 29, 2016.
- ↑ Mirko Hominal: Florent Claude passe sous les couleurs belges on ski-nordique.net. June 10, 2016.
- ↑ Florent Claude: "Avec la Belgique, on peut jouer devant". In: Nordic Magazine. April 13, 2017. “Mickael Reusch [sic!] A signé, pour la Belgique, un bel hiver en coupe du monde de biathlon. Il prouve qu'on peut réussir dans une petite nation ... Un modèle inspirant pour vous? - Forcément c'est inspirant, cela montre que c'est possible les supers résultats qu'il a fait. "
- ↑ Florent Claude officiellement belge. In: Nordic Magazine. June 7, 2017.
- ↑ Belga : La Belgique fait la course en tête, puis finit 13ème en Coupe du Monde de biathlon on rtbf.be. January 7, 2018.
- ^ A b Les frères Claude ensemble sur le net. In: Nordic Magazine . November 27, 2015.
- ^ Marie Coulon: Accident de motoneige au Québec: le corps retrouvé est celui de Gilles Claude, 58 years on francetvinfo.fr. January 25, 2020.
- ↑ "We love you, Papa" on spiegel.de. January 24, 2020.
- ↑ Français disparus au Québec: le corps de Gilles Claude, père de trois biathlètes internationaux, retrouvé. In: Le Parisien. January 25, 2020.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Claude, Florent |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Remiremont |