Hervé Flandin (born June 4, 1965 in Modane , France ) is a former French biathlete . He was the first French to win a world cup race in biathlon.
Hervé Flandin started as an employee of the French customs for the association Les Douanes Savoie and began biathlon in 1984. He is 1.81 m tall and weighed 73 kg at competition times. He lives in Bramans in his home region in the Savoie department , is married and goes mountain climbing in his free time . Flandin was one of the most successful biathletes in France from the late 1980s to the 1990s, but never won a major title. The greatest success of his career was winning the bronze medal at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer with the French relay. As the final runner, he led the French with Thierry Dusserre , Patrice Bailly-Salins and Lionel Laurent in third place behind Germany and Russia. He was able to run up from fifth place, overtaking the Belarusian Aljaksandr Papou and benefiting from the mishap of the Italians, whose last runner Andreas Zingerle had to go into the penalty loop three times. In the individual he was only 44th, in the sprint he was the best Frenchman in eighth place despite a shooting error. Flandin experienced his first Olympic Games in 1988 , in Calgary he finished 52nd in the sprint, 56th in the individual and was tenth in the relay. Flandin was also part of the French team at the Olympic Games in his home country , but was only used in the sprint and relay. He was the best of his team in the sprint in tenth place, a shooting error in the second attack cost him a medal. In the season he was already the last runner there - Xavier Blond , Thierry Gerbier , and Christian Dumont also ran - and came in sixth.
Flandin has been used in the biathlon world cup since 1986 and he ran for his team at world championships for the first time in 1987 . In Lake Placid he was 13th in the individual and 20th in the sprint. At the next World Championships in 1989 he was 25th in the individual and 36th in the sprint. The most successful World Championships for Flandin were the title fights in 1990 , which were spread over several venues due to freak weather . Eighth in the singles in Minsk , he won his first medal, a bronze, with the team (Dumont, Bouthiaux , Flandin, Gerbier) in Oslo. Two days later in the 7.5 km sprint he missed bronze by 16 seconds despite faultless shooting. This fourth place overall remained his best place in a solo race at world championships. In the relay race that was postponed again, which was finally held in Kontiolahti on March 18, 1990 , he was runner-up in third place with Christian Dumont, Xavier Blond and Thierry Gerbier, behind the surprise winner Italy and ahead of the East German relay team. In Lahti 1991 , the French season was sixth in the cast Blond, Marguet , Dumont and Flandin. Flandin ran the next world championships in 1995 , when his compatriot Patrice Bailly-Salins won in the individual, he finished seventh, in the sprint it was 16th and in the relay he again won the runner-up title, the French were only thirteen seconds behind Germany. The season ran in the cast of Lionel Laurent, Patrice Bailly-Salins, Thierry Dusserre and Hervé Flandin. His last appearance at the World Championships was in Ruhpolding in 1996 , where he placed 45th in the sprint and fifth in the relay ( Perrot , Poirée , Dusserre, Flandin).
Hervé Flandin was the first Frenchman to win a race in the biathlon world cup . At the World Cup in Calgary in 1991 he won over 20 km with just one shooting error in front of his compatriot Patrice Bailly. He managed to place in the top ten in fifteen individual and nine team competitions in the World Cup and was on the podium seven times, three of them in individual races. His best placement in the overall ranking of the Biathlon World Cup was twelfth in the 1993/1994 season . In total, Flandin won eleven titles in French championships. In 1997, Flandin suffered a serious chest injury when he fell from the roof of his house in Bramans from a height of nine meters. Then he ended his active career. For several years now, as one of the technical delegates at the IBU, he has been responsible for the compliant implementation of events.
Biathlon 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
placement
singles
sprint
persecution
Mass start
team
Season
total
1st place
1
1
2nd place
1
2
3
3rd place
1
1
1
3
Top 10
8th
7th
1
8th
24
Scoring
27
18th
1
9
55
Starts
44
47
1
1
9
102
Status : after the end of your career, data partially incomplete
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France
