Gérard Colin
Gérard Colin 
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| nation |
 France
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| birthday | March 3, 1958 |
| place of birth | La Bresse, France
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| size | 167 cm |
| Weight | 61 kg |
| job | Ski jumping coach |
| Career | |
|---|---|
| society | La Bressaude |
| National squad | since 1979 |
| status | resigned |
| End of career | 1987 |
| Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping | |
| Debut in the World Cup | December 30, 1979 |
| Overall World Cup | 29. ( 1982/83 ) |
Gérard Colin (born March 3, 1958 in La Bresse ) is a former French ski jumper and today's ski jumping trainer.
Career
Ski jumper
On December 30, 1979, Colin competed in his first competition in the newly created Ski Jumping World Cup in Oberstdorf at the start of the 1979/80 Four Hills Tournament . During the tour, however, he was largely unsuccessful. Only in the jumping in Thunder Bay he was able to win one World Cup point with two 15th places. In Saint-Nizier , he achieved further World Cup points with 8th place, his best placement to date. At the end of the 1979/80 World Cup season he finished 73rd with 9 points.
At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , Colin reached 35th place on the normal hill and 42nd place on the large hill.
In the 1980/81 season Colin only achieved a World Cup point in Chamonix with 15th place and ended the season in 83rd place in the overall World Cup standings. The 1981/82 season began similarly unsuccessfully for Colin. So he could not achieve top placings either in the Four Hills Tournament 1981/82 or in the Nordic World Ski Championships 1982 in Oslo . Colin remained without a point win throughout the season and thus without a placement in the overall World Cup standings.
At the start of the 1982/83 World Cup season, he was able to win two World Cup points in 14th place in the first competition in Cortina d'Ampezzo . The other jumps were also successful for Colin. In Bærum he was able to achieve his best individual placement of his career with 4th place on March 11, 1983 and at the end of the season he finished 29th in the overall World Cup ranking.
The 1983/84 denied Colin successfully and reached 20 points 38th place in the overall World Cup standings. At the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984 Colin was again in the French squad and reached 15th place on the normal hill and 32nd place on the large hill.
In the following three years Colin was unable to build on his successes and mostly ended up only in the back places also at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1985 in Seefeld in Tyrol he remained unsuccessful with 46th place on the normal hill and 37th place on the large hill. After another unsuccessful season, he ended his active ski jumping career at the age of 29 after the Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf in 1987 , where he reached 31st place on the normal hill and 52nd place on the large hill.
Trainer
Since the 2011/2012 season , Colin worked as assistant coach of the French training group B. Since the 2013/14 season he was the head coach of the French national team. At the end of the 2017/18 season, Colin and his assistant Robert Treitinger ended their work after four years as the coaching team for the French national team.
successes
World Cup placements
| season | space | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1979/80 | 73. | 9 |
| 1980/81 | 83. | 1 |
| 1982/83 | 29 | 28 |
| 1983/84 | 38. | 20th |
| 1984/85 | 66. | 3 |
Web links
- Gérard Colin in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Gérard Colin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colin and Treitinger stop in France , on berkutschi.com, April 4, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Colin, Gerard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Bresse , France |