Lionel Laurent
Lionel Laurent 
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| birthday | October 10, 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Moutiers | ||||||||||||||||||
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| society | Les Douanes Dauphiné | ||||||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | ||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall World Cup | 26th ( 1992/93 ) | ||||||||||||||||||
| last change: December 8, 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||
Lionel Laurent (born October 10, 1964 in Moûtiers ) is a former French biathlete .
Lionel Laurent from Méribel was one of the strongest French biathletes in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the 1984/85 season , the athlete from Les Douanes Dauphiné started in the biathlon world cup . In 1986 he took part in the Biathlon World Championships in Oslo for the first time , where he was 45th of the individual and tenth with the French relay. In 1987 , a 34th place in the Lake Placid sprint was added. He did not take part in the 1988 Winter Olympics. In 1989 he took part again in the world championships, which were held in Feistritz that year . In the sprint, Laurent came 51st and 66th in the sprint race. The 1990 World Cup Kontiolahti brought a 28th place in the sprint. The 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons were the Frenchman's most successful years. In the overall World Cup he was 28th and 26th, in 1993 he achieved his best place in the World Cup with a fifth place in a sprint in Lillehammer in the pre-Olympic race, which he achieved again in 1994 in Bad Gastein in individual.
In 1992 Laurent took part in his first Olympic Games in Albertville . In France he was used in singles and was 47 there. Between the games he took part in the 1993 World Championships in Borowetz and was 13th in the singles and eighth with the French relay. In the team race he won bronze alongside Gilles Marguet , Thierry Dusserre and Xavier Blond behind Germany and Russia. At the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer, he started again in singles and finished 32nd and won the bronze medal behind Germany and Russia in the relay race with Dusserre, Patrice Bailly-Salins and Hervé Flandin . At the biathlon world championships in 1995 in Antholz , Laurent was 33rd in the sprint. He was more successful in the team races. With Bailly-Salins, Dusserre and Flandin, he won the vice world championship title behind the German relay team and with Dusserre, Franck Perrot and Stéphane Bouthiaux the bronze medal in the team competition behind Norway and the Czech Republic. The end of his career coincided with the 1997 Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie . He was used in the singles and was 72nd, with the team seventh.
After his active career, Laurent became a coach and looked after the French women's team as national coach.
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 |
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| 1st place | |||||||
| 2nd place | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 3rd place | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Top 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 10 | ||
| Scoring | 7th | 12 | 3 | 4th | 26th | ||
| Starts | 35 | 36 | 3 | 4th | 78 | ||
| Status : data not complete, with Olympic and World Cup results | |||||||
Web links
- Lionel Laurent in the database of the IBU (English)
- Lionel Laurent in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Statistics at the-sports.org
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Laurent, Lionel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French biathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moûtiers |