Burtin was a member of the French national ski team from 1992 and has contested 98 world cup races in his career , 84 of them in the downhill , 13 in the Super-G and a single giant slalom . The only World Cup victory of his career he achieved in March 1998 on the downhill in Kvitfjell . He came second three more times. In 1994 he took sixth place at the Olympic downhill run in Kvitfjell. In 1998 he became French downhill champion. He contested his last race in January 2006.
His younger brother Raphaël Burtin was also a member of the French national ski team.