François Braud

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François Braud Nordic combination Ski jumpingCross-country skiing
François Braud at the World Cup in Ramsau 2016
nation FranceFrance France
birthday 27th July 1986 (age 34)
place of birth Pontarlier , France
Career
discipline Nordic combined
ski jumping
cross-country skiing
society Club des Sports Chamonix
status resigned
End of career 2019
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
JWM medals 1 × gold 2 × silver 1 × bronze
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 2013 Val di Fiemme Team NH
gold 2015 Falun Team sprint
silver 2015 Falun Single LH
bronze 2015 Falun Team NH
bronze 2017 Lahti Single LH
FIS Nordic Junior Ski World Championships
silver 2002 Schonach Mass start team NH
bronze 2003 Sollefteå Mass start team NH
silver 2005 Rovaniemi Mass start team NH
gold 2006 Kranj Single NH
Placements in the Nordic Combined World Cup

World Cup debut November 25, 2005
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 singles 0 1 1
 Team sprint 0 0 4th
 Season 0 2 3
Placements in the ski jumping world cup

World Cup debut March 6, 2010
last change: August 19, 2019

François Braud (born July 27, 1986 in Pontarlier ) is a former French Nordic combined athlete who occasionally competed in the sub-disciplines of cross-country skiing and ski jumping.

Career

Nordic combination

François Braud lives in Sallanches and started for the Club des Sports Chamonix . He had his first significant international appearance at the Nordic Junior World Championships in January 2002 in Schonach , where he won the silver medal together with Maxime Laheurte , Mathieu Martinez and Sébastien Lacroix in the relay competition behind the German team. In December he took part in his first FIS event in Klingenthal and was 47 in a competition in the Gundersen method . In the following events, he was able to improve to be among the top 20. The highlight of the season was again the 2003 Junior World Championships , held in Sollefteå . Braud was used again in the relay competition, in which Martinez has now been replaced by Jason Lamy Chappuis and won bronze. In the Gundersen competition he came in 36th place. It was not until December 2003 that Braud was used in Ruhpolding for the first time in the B World Cup and was 52nd there. The 2004 Junior World Championships in Stryn only brought sixth place in the team competition, 20th place in the Gundersen competition and 19th place in the sprint. A year later he started at his fourth Junior World Championship in Rovaniemi . With Lamy Chappuis, Laheurte and Maxime Boillot he won the silver medal in the team competition for the second time, he was also eleventh in the Gundersen competition and eighth in the sprint. In November 2005 Braud made his debut in Kuusamo in the World Cup and was 44th in a Gundersen competition. In his fifth World Cup competition, the Frenchman won his first World Cup points as 16th in a sprint in Ramsau am Dachstein . In February 2006 he started for the last time at a Junior World Championship , in Kranj he won the title in the Gundersen competition ahead of Tom Beetz . Only ten days later he was able to take part in his first Olympic competition in Pragelato and was 42nd in the Gundersen competition. In the relay competition he missed a medal as a starter with Jason Lamy Chappuis, Ludovic Roux and Nicolas Bal in fifth place.

In the following years Braud regularly took part in World Cup races and mostly ran into the points. The next major event after the Olympic Games in Turin was the 2007 Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo . He was 20th in the sprint, 30th in the Gundersen competition and sixth with the French relay. In March 2008 he was eighth for the first time in the top ten in Oslo . Braud achieved his best results to date when he finished sixth in 2009 in Val di Fiemme and Vikersund . In the overall ranking of the season he was 15th. The Frenchman also achieved good results at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec . With the ranks ten in the mass start, twelve in the individual on the normal and 14th on the large hill. With the season he was fourth.

Braud in Ramsau 2016

In the 2009/10 season Braud made the points ten times in the World Cup, two of them in the top 10. At the end of the season he competed in a team race in Oslo , in which he was fourth. At the Olympic Games in Vancouver he only finished 34th in the individual on the normal hill. In the team competition on the large hill, he and his teammates Maxime Laheurte , Sébastien Lacroix and Jason Lamy Chappuis achieved an excellent fourth place just 1.4 points behind the third-placed Germans. In the individual on the large hill he came in 14th. In the 2010/11 World Cup season , he always made it into the points races. At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo, he came 20th in the individual normal hill, fifth in the normal hill team, ninth in the single large hill and fourth in the large hill team. In the 2011/12 season he was disqualified for the first time at the World Cup race in Val di Fiemme, otherwise he achieved results in midfield. In the winter of 2012/13 he reached second place with the team in Sochi . At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he won the gold medal in the team competition with the French team. In the two individual races, he took 36th place on the normal hill and 19th place on the large hill.

At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , he finished fourth again with the French team. In the two Gundersen competitions he was 13th on the large hill and 30th on the normal hill. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2015 in Falun , Braud surprisingly won the silver medal in the competition on the large hill, where he only had to admit defeat to the Austrian Bernhard Gruber . He had previously won the bronze medal in the team competition with the French team. In the first individual competition on the normal hill he was 13th. In the final team sprint he became world champion with Jason Lamy Chappuis .

At the 2017 World Championships in Lahti , Finland , he won the bronze medal in the Gundersen competition on the large hill. In the Gundersen competition on the normal hill he was sixth, in the team sprint Fünter and seventh in the relay competition. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , South Korea , he was 5th with the French team, while he was 15th in both Gundersen competitions on the large and normal hill. At the 2019 World Championships in Seefeld in Tirol and Innsbruck he finished sixth with the French team in the relay competition, while he finished 23rd (on the normal hill) and 27th (on the large hill) in the two Gundersen competitions. Braud ended his career at the end of the 2018/19 season.

Ski jumping

Shortly after Christmas 2001 he took part in the Continental Cup in Engelberg for the first time , finished 37th and missed the second round. He also took part in the ski jumping team at the 2003 Junior World Championships in Solleftea, was 12th and a year later he came with the team at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Stryn in 11th place. Together with Alexandre Mabboux , Jonathan Félisaz and Vincent Descombes Sevoie, he won the team jumping title as Team Mont Blanc I at the French Ski Jumping Championships in 2009 , and finished seventh in the individual competition. On March 6, 2010 he came in the World Cup with his teammates Vincent Descombes Sevoie , David Lazzaroni and Emmanuel Chedal on the 11th place. In the summer of 2011 Braud was at two FIS Cups in Gérardmer finished sixth and fourth and was also at two Continental Cups in Courchevel and the results were a 26th and 27th place. In 2013 he was seen again in two Continental Cups in Lillehammer in the summer .

statistics

Placements at the Olympic Winter Games Olympic rings without rims.svg

Year and place competition
Gundersen NS Gundersen GS team
ItalyItaly 2006 Pragelato 42. - 05.
CanadaCanada 2010 Vancouver 34. 14th 04th
RussiaRussia 2014 Sochi 20th 13. 04th
Korea SouthSouth Korea 2018 Pyeongchang 15th 15th 05.

World Cup placements

season space Points
2005/06 39. 160
2006/07 34. 126
2007/08 36. 181
2008/09 15th 354
2009/10 30th 150
2010/11 19th 193
2011/12 23. 293
2012/13 22nd 230
2013/14 20th 252
2014/15 12. 323
2015/16 14th 371
2016/17 12. 405
2017/18 17th 321
2018/19 28. 152

Web links

Commons : François Braud  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophie Courageot: Combiné nordique: c'est la der pour Maxime Laheurte et François Braud. France 3 , March 15, 2019, accessed April 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Braud, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Braud, Francois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Nordic combined
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontarlier , France