Laurent Vidal

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Laurent Vidal at the European Triathlon Championships Pontevedra, 2011
Personal information
Date of birth	February 18, 1984
place of birth	Sète
date of death	November 10, 2015
Place of death	Gigean
societies
successes
2009, 2011	State champion triathlon
2012	5th Olympic Games
status
Died in 2015

Laurent Vidal (born February 18, 1984 in Sète ; † November 10, 2015 in Gigean ) was a French triathlete . He was French triathlon champion (Olympic distance) in 2009 and 2011, U-23 champion in 2006 and Olympic participant in 2008 and 2012.

Career

He belonged to the military triathlon team (Equipe de France) that had moved to Draguignan at the military school ( Ecoles militaires de Draguignan EMD) and was caporal in the French army. In Germany, Vidal competed in the first Bundesliga for the EJOT Team TV Buschhütten .

On his ITU debut in 2002, Vidal immediately became Vice Junior European Champion. In 2003 he was fourth at the Junior World Championships. In August 2008 he represented France at the Olympic Games in Beijing, where he was 36th. In the nine years from 2002 to 2010, Vidal took part in 53 ITU competitions and achieved 25 top ten placements. In 2010 he opened the season with a gold medal at the Oceania Championships.

He finished seventh at the 2011 European Championships in Spain, sixth at the World Series Triathlon in London and at the Sprint World Championships in Lausanne. He was two out of three times ahead of his biggest French competitor David Hauss , who finished 13th, 7th and 4th. Vidal had to give up at two world championship triathlons because he suddenly lost consciousness: in Kitzbühel (August 14, 2010) while running and in Sydney (April 9, 2011) during a cycling race, where he fell badly. He finished the 2011 World Championship racing series in seventh place.

In addition to the ITU competitions, Laurent Vidal also took part in the French club championship series Lyonnaise des Eaux and started together with Emmie Charayron and Fabienne St. Louis for the Lagardère Paris Racing club . Thanks to his sixth place at the World Series Triathlon in London (August 7, 2011), he was already nominated for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where he finished fifth. He won the Alpine Triathlon in Schliersee in 2012 and 2013 .

Vidal completed a bachelor's degree in sports management and most recently lived in Sète and Christchurch , the New Zealand hometown of his partner Andrea Hewitt (* 1982), for half a year .

In April 2014, he suffered a heart attack while swimming and had to stop doing sports. In November 2015 he died at the age of 31 after a cardiac arrest.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

Commons : Laurent Vidal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Laurent Vidal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Laurent Vidal's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on February 19, 2020 (English).
• Profile for Laurent Vidal at the Institute for Applied Training Science , accessed on August 20, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le triathlète français Laurent Vidal est décédé à 31 ans (French) on lequipe.fr of November 10, 2015, accessed on November 11, 2015
2. ↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and http://laurent-vidal.blogspot.com/2010/08/kitzbuhel-wcs-collapsed-quick-update.html . Retrieved August 24, 2011. 
3. ↑ 31-year-old top triathlete suffers cardiac arrest at night and dies. www.focus.de, November 10, 2015, accessed on November 10, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Geelong Triathlon: Haug and McCormack strong (February 13, 2012)
5. ↑ Triathlon EM: Brownlee shows Gomez
6. ↑ Kai Baumgartner: British victory by Alistair Brownlee at the ITU Triathlon World Championship series in Kitzbühel, Maik Petzold and Daniel Unger in the top 5 . In: 3athlon.de . July 11, 2009. Archived from the original on July 17, 2009.
7. ^ ETU short distance EM: Title to Gomez and Spirig
8. ↑ Triathlon European Championship - Javier Gomez fetches the title  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ Triathlon World Championships Queenstown (NZL) ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (December 5-7, 2003) 
10. ↑ Onion triathlete Christian Ruderer is pedaling hard in hot Mexico ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Juniors: Bozzone wins second gold ( memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.