Justine Braisaz

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Justine Braisaz biathlon
Justine Braisaz 2018
Association FranceFrance France
birthday 4th July 1996 (age 24)
place of birth Albertville , France
size 166 cm
Weight 58 kg
Career
job Customs officer
society Club des Sports Les Saisies
Trainer Frédéric Jean ,
Franck Badiou
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup 2014
Debut in the World Cup 2014
World Cup victories 7 (2 individual wins)
status active
Medal table
winter Olympics 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 0 × gold 2 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 2018 Pyeongchang Season
IBU Biathlon world championships
silver 2015 Kontiolahti Season
silver 2016 Oslo Season
bronze 2017 Hochfilzen Season
bronze 2019 Östersund singles
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 6. ( 2016/17 )
Individual World Cup 3rd ( 2019/20 )
Sprint World Cup 5. (2016/17)
Pursuit World Cup 6. (2016/17)
Mass start world cup 9. (2019/20)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
singles 1 0 1
sprint 0 4th 1
persecution 0 1 1
Mass start 1 0 0
Season 5 8th 4th
last change: March 15, 2020

Justine Braisaz (born July 4, 1996 in Albertville ) is a French biathlete .

Braisaz made her debut in the World Cup in 2014 and won her first race there in 2017. After standing on the podium at the World Championships three times in a row with the French relay from 2015 to 2017, she won her first individual World Championship medal in 2019 with third place in the 15-kilometer race. In addition, she won an Olympic bronze medal in 2018, also with the relay.

Athletic career

Youth and junior area (until 2014)

Braisaz grew up in the alpine department of Savoy, which is dominated by winter sports, and started skiing when he was five. In 2012 she started biathlon after having trained cross-country skiing for several years ; in the same year she became French U16 champion in both disciplines. Her home club is the Club des Sports Les Saisies , which also includes Julia Simon , who is about the same age and later also promoted to the French national team. At her international debut, the 2013 World Youth Championships in Obertilliach , Braisaz finished in 46th (individual) and 71st (sprint) with many shooting errors, but was one of the six fastest runners in the 90-strong field in both competitions. At the Junior World Championships in the following year she ran best times on the track and finished fifth as the best result with two shooting errors in the sprint, which the Russian Yevgenia Pavlova won.

Rise to the top of the world (2014 to 2018)

Braisaz at the mass start of Annecy 2017, where she won the World Cup for the first time

In January 2014, at the age of 17, Braisaz received her first appearance in the IBU Cup , the second highest competition series in the adult division. As the 27th of the sprint race from Ridnaun, she won points straight away. In the same calendar year she finished sixth and second in Beitostølen at the start of the IBU Cup 2014/15 , each with the fastest time. Since Anaïs Chevalier from the French A-squad had to end the season early with back pain, Braisaz moved up to the six-man French World Cup team in December 2014 . In the team around the experienced World Championship medalists Marie Dorin-Habert and Anaïs Bescond , 18-year-old Braisaz was by far the youngest athlete. In her World Cup debut in the Hochfilzen sprint, she placed 17th in the points and was second best French woman in the competition. In the following relay she started the race while lying in the lead, but then shot the only penalty loop of the four runners and fell back, the relay ultimately finished eighth. During the further course of the season, Braisaz improved her best individual placement to 14th place and was on the podium twice with the relay - including at the 2015 World Championships in Kontiolahti , where she won the silver medal with Bescond, Enora Latuillière and Dorin-Habert (and shot another penalty loop). At the end of her first World Cup winter, Braisaz was 51st in the overall World Cup and one of the ten fastest athletes in the entire field. Their hit rate was 71 percent, the lowest in the French team.

In the following years Braisaz increased her performance in both sub-disciplines: in 2016/17 she hit 80 percent of her shots in World Cup races over the season and ran almost five percent better times than her competitors, with which she (behind the Finns Kaisa Mäkäräinen and Mari Laukkanen and Overall World Cup winner Laura Dahlmeier ) was the fourth fastest biathlete in the World Cup. After celebrating her first World Cup victory with the relay in January 2016, she reached the podium in an individual race for the first time in the Pokljuka sprint in December of the same year: In second, she was only 3.5 seconds behind Dahlmeier, who like her had made no mistakes . With further podium finishes, she was sixth in the overall World Cup at the end of the 2016/17 season, two places behind Marie Dorin-Habert and one place ahead of Anaïs Chevalier. At the beginning of the 2017/18 winter , Braisaz wore the yellow jersey of the World Cup leaders for one week after finishing second twice at the season opener in Östersund. Shortly afterwards, she won the mass start at the home World Cup in Annecy in December 2017 and thus her first race in the highest competition series, with enough lead over second-placed Iryna Kryuko to take on a French flag before the finish line.

After eight top ten results in the first ten World Cups of winter 2017/18 and her first World Cup victory, Braisaz, who is considered to be the hope for a medal, was increasingly in the focus of the French public in the run-up to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . She herself had declared at the beginning of the Olympic season that the Games did not have the same meaning for her as other athletes conveyed them: “Of course” she had the clear goal of becoming an Olympic champion, but ultimately it was not the success of a single event that should define a career. In the Olympic competitions she did not build on her results from the beginning of the season: In the sprint she was able to achieve her best individual result in tenth place, in the other races she was placed between positions 20 and 55. Only in the relay did Braisaz win bronze together with Chevalier, Dorin-Habert and Bescond (who was the only French woman to win an individual medal), this was the fourth time in a row that she competed after World Cup silver and bronze medals in 2015, 2016 and 2017 her team stood on the podium at a major event. After the Olympics, Braisaz missed most of the rest of the season for health reasons.

Fluctuating results and re-establishment (from 2018)

Braisaz (r.) With her teammates Julia Simon , Anaïs Bescond and Célia Aymonier after the World Cup relay in Oberhof 2020

After the end of Marie Dorin-Habert's career, the French A team for the 2018/19 Biathlon World Cup comprised only three athletes: in addition to Braisaz, Anaïs Bescond and Anaïs Chevalier. In order to fill the six starting places that the French federation was entitled to, other athletes from the B-squad also received appearances in the World Cup. Julia Simon - Braisaz's club colleague from the youth - and Célia Aymonier , who switched from cross-country to biathlon, showed significantly more consistent performances than Braisaz, who finished third in the World Cup at the Pokljuka, but scored points in six of the first ten World Cup races (i.e. the top 40 seats). Stéphane Bouthiaux , long-time men's trainer and responsible for biathlon in the French Ski Federation, accused her of mental weakness and a lack of structured training. In this regard, Frédéric Jean , who has been in charge of the women's team since 2018 , said that Braisaz was “capable of shining”, but too unreliable. In the nomination for the World Championships in Östersund, the coaching team gave Simon and Aymonier preference over her due to the preliminary results; Braisaz only moved up as a substitute runner because Anaïs Bescond was unable to attend due to illness. In the sprint, she reached one of her worst results of the season as 60th with five misses. A few days later, she hit 19 of 20 targets in the 15-kilometer individual race and came third, winning the only medal for the French women's team at the World Cup. In the overall World Cup, Braisaz was placed as far back as 26th as it was in her debut season, but was roughly level with her four teammates, who were between 20 and 24.

In December 2019 Braisaz decided - again in Östersund in a 15-kilometer competition, this time after an 83rd place in the sprint - the second individual World Cup race of her career. Despite two shooting errors, she was eleven seconds ahead of Ukrainian Julija Dschyma in the final standings , who did not miss a shot. As a result, Braisaz stabilized and finished all other World Cup races in the points. Shooting coach Franck Badiou stated at the beginning of the season that she had no “phenomenal ability to concentrate”, which prevented top marks in shooting, but that she was beginning to assess more realistically what she could achieve. At the end of winter, Braisaz was in ninth place in the overall World Cup , a few points behind Julia Simon, who celebrated her first World Cup victory of the season. During the season and during most of the previous winters, Braisaz received regular relay operations and was able to win other world cup races with both the women's team and the mixed relay.

Personal and assessments

The middle of three sisters, Braisaz grew up with her parents - cow keepers and cheese makers - near Hauteluce and spent most of the summers of her childhood in a mountain hut with no running water or electricity. In an interview with the French magazine L'Express in 2017, she emphasized that she still feels more connected to rural life than to that of an athlete (in the original: “Je me sens plus paysanne que sportive”). She is happy to be practicing biathlon, a sport that fills her emotionally; But it is clear to her that there are more important things and a “real life” besides sport. You have a problem with athletes who take themselves too seriously. For this reason, she also criticized the inflation of the importance of the Olympic Games.

Braisaz completed her Baccalauréat scientifique (roughly: Abitur with a natural science focus ) in Moûtiers. She first began studying foreign languages ​​and then studying biology in Grenoble , but was unable to pursue these intensively alongside biathlon. She has been a member of the French customs ski team since 2015.

Her teammate at the time, Marie Dorin-Habert, emphasized in 2018 that Braisaz was “elusive”, at the same time thoughtful, but also “wild and spontaneous”; you have to give it time to develop. Anaïs Bescond described her teammates Braisaz and Chevalier as "individualists and workers" (in the original: "individualistes et travailleuses"). Julia Simon, about the same age, whose career initially ran parallel to that of Braisaz, but who was only appointed to the senior squad years after her, stated that it was difficult to always be compared with the initially more successful club mate: It had initially made it appear that "everything was easy for her". They are not close friends, but they do appreciate each other.

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race Relay race
No. date place discipline
1. 17th Dec 2017 FranceFrance Le Grand-Bornand Mass start (12.5 km)
2. 5th Dec 2019 SwedenSweden Ostersund Single (15 km)
No. date place discipline
1. Jan. 24, 2016 Flag of Italy.svg Antholz Season 1
2. Jan. 7, 2018 GermanyGermany Oberhof Season 2
3. Dec 2, 2018 SloveniaSlovenia Pokljuka Mixed season 3
4th Jan. 19, 2019 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding Season 4
5. Jan 25, 2020 SloveniaSlovenia Pokljuka Mixed season 5
2with Anaïs Bescond, Anaïs Chevalier and Célia Aymonier
3with Anaïs Bescond, Martin Fourcade and Simon Desthieux
4thwith Julia Simon , Anaïs Bescond and Anaïs Chevalier
5with Quentin Fillon Maillet , Simon Desthieux and Julia Simon

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
  • Relay: including mixed relays
placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place 1 1 5 7th
2nd place 4th 1 8th 13
3rd place 1 1 1 4th 7th
Top 10 4th 13 9 4th 31 61
Scoring 12 38 29 20th 32 131
Starts 15th 48 32 21st 32 148
Status: end of season 2019/20

winter Olympics

Individual competitions Relay competitions
sprint persecution singles Mass start Women's relay Mixed relay
Olympic Winter Games 2018

Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang

10. 34. 55. 20th bronze 3. -

World championships

Individual competitions Relay competitions
sprint persecution singles Mass start Women's relay Mixed relay
World Championships 2015

FinlandFinland Kontiolahti

33. 34. 34. - silver 2. -
World Championships 2016

NorwayNorway Oslo

25th 22nd 16. 12. silver 2. -
World Championships 2017

AustriaAustria Hochfilzen

28. 5. 48. 28. bronze 3. -
World Championships 2019

SwedenSweden Ostersund

60. DNS bronze 3. 15th 8th. -
World Championships 2020

ItalyItaly Antholz

32. 37. 19th 22nd 14th 7th

Web links

Commons : Justine Braisaz  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Justine Braisaz. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Rico Rizzitelli: Justine Braisaz, toucher sa cible on liberation.fr. Released February 8, 2018. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  3. ↑ Justine Braisaz, biathlète française on skinordik.com. Released July 9, 2019. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ Mirko Hominal: IBU Cup: La fusée Justine Braisaz on ski-nordique.net. Released November 30, 2014. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  5. ↑ Mirko Hominal: Justine Braisaz en coupe du monde on ski-nordique.net. Released December 8, 2014. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2015/2016, pp. 219–222 and p. 470.
  7. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2017/2018, p. 352.
  8. ^ Julien Chesnais: Fin du rêve en jaune pour Justine Braisaz on eurosport.fr. Released December 9, 2017. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  9. ↑ Mass Start du Grand-Bornand: VICTOIRE de Justine Braisaz & Martin Fourcade on ffs.fr. Released December 17, 2017. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  10. ↑ JO 2018: Braisaz, Fourcade ou Worley, à qui la première médaille française? on leparisien.fr. Released February 9, 2018. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  11. ↑ Cédric Callier: JO 2018: Justine Braisaz, sans filtre ni barrière on lefigaro.fr. Released February 10, 2018. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  12. ↑ a b c Rodolphe Ryo ( L'Express ): Justine Braisaz: "Je me sens plus paysanne que sportive" on lexpress.fr. Published on November 29, 2017. Accessed on April 4, 2020. “Bien sûr, j'ai un objectif clair. Je veux décrocher une medaille d'or pour devenir championne olympique. Mais ça ne me suffira pas. J'en veux plus. Ce qui compte pour moi, c'est de réussir à exprimer pleinement mon potentiel. "(In German for example:" Of course I have a clear goal. I want to win a gold medal and become an Olympic champion. But that's not enough for me. I want more. What counts for me is to exhaust my full potential. ")
  13. ↑ Mirko Hominal: Biathlon: Justine Braisaz forfait pour Oslo on ski-nordique.net. Released March 15, 2018. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  14. ↑ Biathlon: la composition de l'équipe de France on nordicmag.info. Released June 1, 2018. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  15. ^ A b Jean-Pierre Bidet ( L'Équipe ): Championnats du monde: Justine Braisaz, une doublure contrariée en équipe de France on lequipe.fr. Released March 6, 2019. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  16. ↑ AFP : Biathlon: Justine Braisaz, pure du yo-yo on la-croix.com. Retrieved on April 4, 2020. "Elle n'a pas une force de concentration phénoménale [...] Elle commence à avoir une vision plus réaliste de ce qu'elle est et de ce qu'elle peut faire" (in German roughly: " She has no phenomenal ability to concentrate. [...] She begins to have a more realistic idea of ​​what she is and what she can do. ")
  17. ↑ Benoît Prato: JO-2018 / Biathlon: Justine Braisaz, la fille de là-haut on ledauphine.com. Released February 22, 2018. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  18. ↑ Portrait on douane.gouv.fr. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  19. ↑ Interview Anaïs Bescond on altitude-biathlon.com. Released October 29, 2017. Accessed April 4, 2020.
  20. ↑ Jean-Pierre Bidet: Mondiaux: Julia Simon and Justine Braisaz, deux étoiles contraires au sommet du biathlon français on lequipe.fr. Published on February 14, 2020; accessed on April 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Braisaz, Justine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French biathlete
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Albertville