Jean Paquet

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Jean Paquet biathlon
Full name André Jean Paquet
Association CanadaCanada Canada
birthday October 12, 1964
place of birth Jonquière
Career
job Soldier
trainer
society Biathlon Courcelette
Debut in the World Cup 1989 (?)
status resigned
End of career 2005
World Cup balance
last change: end of career

André Jean Paquet (born October 12, 1964 in Jonquière ) is a former Canadian biathlete . He participated in ten of the annual international championships between 1989 and 2005.

Jean Paquet is a soldier and lives in Loretteville . He started biathlon in 1986 and started as an active participant in biathlon courcelette . He ran his first international championship as part of the Biathlon World Championships in 1989 in Feistritz an der Drau , where he was 65th in the individual and 70th in the sprint. Two years later he came in 26th in the sprint in Lahti . It was also one of his best international results. The early peak in Paquets career were 1992 Winter Olympics of Albertville . There he was 77th of the individual and on the side of Glenn Rupertus , Tony Fiala and Steve Cyr tenth in the relay race. This was followed by the inter- Olympic World Championships in 1993 in Borowetz , where the Canadian was 55th in the individual, 77th in the sprint and 17th in the relay in the Olympic line-up of the previous year. For the Olympic Games in 1994 in Lillehammer Paquet could not qualify, but ran again in 1995 at the World Championships in Antholz and was there 32nd of the individual, 39th of the sprint and with Kevin Quintilio , Steve Cyr and Tony Fiala 16th in the relay race. In 1996 in Ruhpolding the results 49 in the individual, 50 in the sprint and with Fiala, Quintilio and Cyr 14 in the relay race were added. Shortly before the World Championships, he won World Cup points for the first and only time in his career with rank 18 in a sprint in Osrblie . The first last international championships for Paquet were the 1997 Biathlon World Championships by Osrblie, in which the Canadian was 77th of the individual, 83rd of the sprint and with Glenn Rupertus, Steve Cyr and Eric Jensen 21st of the relay competition. After failing to qualify for the 1998 Winter Olympics , he initially ended his career.

In 2000 Paquet returned to competitions on an international level. In Kościelisko he took part in the 2000 European Biathlon Championships and thus in his first major international event after his break. In the sprint he was 29th, 40th of the pursuer and on the side of Robin Clegg , Harry Paul Klann and Carlos Settle 13th with the relay. At the Holmenkollen in Oslo he was 83rd of the individual at the World Championships shortly thereafter, qualified as 57th of the sprint for the pursuit race, which he could not finish as a lapped runner. In 2001 he took part in the European Championships again in Haute-Maurienne and came in 40th in the individual and 33rd in the sprint, did not start in the pursuit race and did not finish the relay race alongside Ivan Phillion , Steve Cyr and Colin Bell . The end of the season was the 2001 Military World Ski Championships in Jericho , where he was 43rd in the sprint. Paquet again missed participation in the 2002 Winter Olympics . In 2003 he started in Khanty-Mansiysk for the eighth time at the biathlon world championships , where he was lapped 59th in the individual and in the sprint sprint. The last international championship of his career was the Biathlon World Championships 2005 in Hochfilzen , where the Canadian was 59th in the individual and 53rd in the sprint. Despite qualifying, he did not compete in the pursuit. He turned 15 with the young athletes Robin Clegg, Gerhardt Klann and David Leoni .

Between 1997 and 2003 Paquet took part in several lower-class cross-country skiing races. He achieved podium finishes as third in an FIS race and a cross-country Continental Cup race. At the 2003 Military World Ski Championships in Rovaniemi , he was 41st in the 15-kilometer freestyle.

After his active career, Paquet became a trainer and coached, among others, Claude Godbout . He heads the Canadian training center in Valcartier . He is the national coach of Canada, but is under the head coach Matthias Ahrens .

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
placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place  
2nd place  
3rd place  
Top 10 1 1
Scoring 1 11 12
Starts 32 44 1   11 88
Status: end of career, data probably not complete

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personal data
SURNAME Paquet, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paquet, André Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonquière