Quentin Fillon Maillet

Quentin Fillon Maillet
Association	France
birthday	16th August 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Champagnole , France
size	177 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
society	SC du Grandvaux
Trainer	Vincent Vittoz , Patrick Favre
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2012
Debut in the World Cup	2013
World Cup victories	10 (3 individual wins)
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 4 × 3 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 × JEM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Season gold 2016 Oslo Mixed relay silver 2017 Hochfilzen Mixed relay silver 2017 Hochfilzen Season bronze 2019 Östersund sprint bronze 2019 Östersund persecution gold 2020 Antholz Season silver 2020 Antholz sprint silver 2020 Antholz Mass start  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2013 Obertilliach Season  Biathlon Junior European Championships gold 2013 Bansko Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	3. ( 2018/19 , 2019/20 )
Individual World Cup	3. ( 2017/18 , 2019/20)
Sprint World Cup	2. (2019/20)
Pursuit World Cup	2. (2018/19)
Mass start world cup	2. ( 2015/16 , 2019/20)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 0 1 1 sprint 0 3 4th persecution 1 4th 5 Mass start 2 4th 2 Season 7th 8th 7th
last change: April 2, 2020

Quentin Fillon Maillet (born August 16, 1992 in Champagnole ) is a French biathlete .

After success in the junior division, Fillon Maillet made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup in 2013, where he stood on the podium for the first time in 2015 and won his first individual race in 2018. He became world champion in the mixed relay in 2016, and four years later he won this title with the men's relay. In addition, he won two World Cup medals in individual competitions in 2019 and 2020 and ended the season third in the overall World Cup in both years.

Athletic career

Youth and junior area (until 2013)

Fillon Maillet, who grew up in a sports-loving family near the Jura Mountains as the eldest of four siblings, began skiing at the age of four, although he was initially trained by his father. He competed in the first biathlon competitions in 2006, successes in the French youth sector enabled him to take part in the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival in 2009 and two years later in the World Youth Championship in Nové Město na Moravě . As part of his further rise, he made his debut in the IBU Cup in 2012 - the second highest competition series in international biathlon - and won his first international medals as a relay runner at the 2013 Junior World Championships and the European Championships in the same year . As the final runner of the French junior relay, he competed at the World Championships in Obertilliach directly against the Norwegian final runner Johannes Thingnes Bø , who was nine months younger and crossed the finish line 14 seconds ahead of him. At both championships he also achieved top ten results in individual races, for example in the sprint of the Junior World Championships, when he finished fifth in the victory of Russian Loginov .

First successes in the World Cup (2013 to 2018)

For the winter of 2013/14 , Fillon Maillet was appointed for the first time to the six-member French World Cup group supervised by Stéphane Bouthiaux and Siegfried Mazet , which also included the reigning overall World Cup winner Martin Fourcade . Fourcade, whom Fillon Maillet singled out on several occasions and described as a great role model, dominated French coverage of the sport in particular as by far the most successful biathlete in his country. Fillon Maillet later stated that it was quite frustrating to keep being asked about his celebrity teammate in interviews, and that some of his own good races initially received little attention given Fourcade's results. On the other hand, it was an advantage not to be in the focus of the media, because it allowed him to go his own way. Fillon Maillet made his World Cup debut at the home World Cup in Annecy in December 2013 in 54th place. At the end of his first World Cup winter, he achieved twelfth place (in the Oslo sprint) as the best result, and in the overall World Cup he was the sixth-best placed Frenchman as 49th. As a substitute, he was also nominated for the Winter Olympics in Sochi , but was not used there.

In the following years, Fillon Maillet rose further within the French team: When Martin Fourcade skipped the relay race at the Oberhof World Cup in January 2015 to concentrate on the individual competitions, Fillon Maillet was used as the final runner in his first relay operation and ran for the third Rank and stood for the first time on a World Cup podium with Martin's brother Simon Fourcade , Jean-Guillaume Béatrix and Simon Desthieux . A week later he was second in the Ruhpolding mass start after a faultless shooting to Simon Schempp only in the final sprint and after evaluating the finish photo by a few centimeters. As a result, Fillon Maillet became a regular runner in the relay - with her he won the bronze medal at the 2015 Biathlon World Championships and the 2017 World Championship silver. As the third runner in the mixed relay, he became world champion in 2016 together with Martin Fourcade, Anaïs Bescond and Marie Dorin-Habert .

In the World Cup, Fillon Maillet remained far from the consistency and the results of the series winner Fourcade, but established himself as one of the most successful biathletes in France in the winters from 2015 to 2018 with repeated podium results. Meanwhile, his strengths shifted from shooting to running: In the 2015/16 season, Fillon Maillet was only a slightly above-average runner, but was one of the ten best shooters in the World Cup with a hit rate of 87 percent. Just one season later he was one of the ten best runners, but his hit rate fell to 81 percent. Poor shooting results also shaped his participation in the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang 2018, for which he had previously been traded as a medal contender. In the sprint he missed four out of ten targets and was 48th, the results in the pursuit and mass start were only marginally better; he was not used in the season. Fillon Maillet described the Pyeongchang games after the season as "the biggest failure [s] of a career, marked by sadness and incomprehension". The Frenchman later attributed his weakness in shooting to the fact that he held the weapon slightly differently than in previous years, which he corrected in preparation for the following winter.

Establishment among the world's best (from 2018)

Simon Desthieux , Émilien Jacquelin , Quentin Fillon Maillet and Martin Fourcade (from left to right) as second of the season in Oberhof in January 2020

Former cross-country world champion Vincent Vittoz took over the training of the French men's biathlon team in summer 2018 . Fillon Maillet described Vittoz 'running training as "more specific" than that of his predecessor Bouthiaux, which has helped him to improve his running performance even further. In fact, as of 2018, Fillon Maillet was one of the best athletes in the field in both sub-disciplines - due to the change in the position of the rifle at the shooting range, his hit rate had risen to 87 percent again: After further podium results, he won his first individual in January 2019 with the mass start in Antholz World Cup races. Thanks to a flawless competition, he stayed 14 seconds ahead of Johannes Thingnes Bø, who had replaced Martin Fourcade, who was struggling with form problems, as the serial winner and had won eleven of fourteen races of the season before Fillon Maillet's victory. Fillon Maillet, who shortly afterwards also won the pursuit in Midway and won two bronze medals at the World Championships in Östersund , further increased his mileage and became one of the few athletes who could keep up with Bø, who was particularly dominant in running: In the 2019 / In 20 , Bø ran six percent faster than the average biathlete in the field, Fillon Maillet exceeded the average by five percent, and Martin Fourcade by four percent. In both 2018/19 and 2019/20, Fillon Maillet took third place in the overall World Cup ranking, which Bø won in each case: first in front of the Russian Alexander Loginow, then in front of the revived Fourcade.

In addition to Fillon Maillet and Martin Fourcade, the other biathletes in the French team were also in strong form in winter 2019/20. In the individual race in Östersund in December 2019, four French took the first four places. In addition to Fourcade and Fillon Maillet, there were Émilien Jacquelin and Simon Desthieux, who finished fifth and sixth in the overall World Cup at the end of the winter. These four runners won the relay gold medal at the 2020 World Championships , with Fillon Maillet playing the final runner role, which he has played regularly since 2019 and which Martin Fourcade had previously held at all World Championships since 2011. He also won two silver medals in the sprint and mass start at the World Championships in Antholz. In the sprint, Fillon Maillet, who started the race with an early start number, was in the lead for a long time with a shooting error and the fastest time of all participants, until Alexander Loginow, who had not made mistakes, undercut the Frenchman's time by 6.5 seconds. Due to his consistently good performance in winter 2019/20, Fillon Maillet was treated as a possible new "patron" in the French team in some French media. In particular after Martin Fourcade's resignation at the end of the season, he was considered one of several future "guarantors of success". Fillon Maillet himself emphasized that there is no real hierarchy in the team, this is the strength of the team. But he is ready to face higher expectations.

Personal

Fillon Maillet discovered craft as a passion in the workshop of his father, who worked in metalworking. He later attended a product design school and then began to design and build the stocks of his sporting weapon himself.

During the winter of 2017/18, Fillon Maillet's girlfriend developed cancer. He made this public during the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang and dedicated the first podium to it, which he achieved following the Olympics on March 8, 2018 in Kontiolahti. He later stated that his girlfriend's successful fight had strengthened him mentally and "incredibly inspired" him.

statistics

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	2	7th	10
2nd place	1	3	4th	4th	8th	20th
3rd place	1	4th	5	2	7th	19th
Top 10	6th	17th	16	16	38	93
Scoring	16	48	40	29	39	172
Starts	18th	60	47	30th	39	194
As of March 17, 2020

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. Jan. 27, 2019  Antholz Mass start 2. 16 Feb 2019  Midway persecution 3. Jan. 26, 2020  Pokljuka Mass start

No. date place discipline 1. March 3, 2016  Oslo ( World Cup ) Mixed season 1 2. Dec 11, 2016  Pokljuka Season 2 3. March 12, 2017  Kontiolahti Mixed season 3 4th 17th Feb 2019  Midway Mixed season 4 5. Jan. 18, 2020  Ruhpolding Season 5 6th Jan 25, 2020  Pokljuka Mixed season 6 7th Feb 22, 2020  Antholz ( WM ) Season 5 1with Anaïs Bescond , Marie Dorin-Habert and Martin Fourcade 2with Jean-Guillaume Béatrix , Simon Desthieux and Martin Fourcade 3 with Marie Dorin-Habert, Anaïs Bescond and Simon Desthieux 4thwith Simon Desthieux, Célia Aymonier and Anaïs Chevalier 5with Émilien Jacquelin , Martin Fourcade and Simon Desthieux 6thwith Simon Desthieux, Justine Braisaz and Julia Simon

World Cup ratings

Results at biathlon world cups (discipline and overall world cup) according to the point system

season	singles		sprint		persecution		Mass start		total
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2013/14	-	-	43	49.	49	47.	15th	38.	107	49.
2014/15	58	18th	136	26th	86	30th	128	11.	408	23.
2015/16	78	10.	165	17th	175	14th	162	2.	580	12.
2016/17	63	16.	128	25th	143	26th	132	11.	466	20th
2017/18	75	3.	168	16.	136	17th	139	10.	518	10.
2018/19	54	18th	267	7th	315	2.	218	3.	843	3.
2019/20	120	3.	324	2.	230	3.	216	2.	843	3.

winter Olympics

Results at Olympic Winter Games:

winter Olympics		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay
year	place
2018	Pyeongchang	-	48.	44.	29	-	-

World championships

Results at the World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	Season	Mixed relay	Single mixed relay
year	place
2015	Kontiolahti	79.	38.	46.	-	3.	-
2016	Oslo	19th	16.	10.	20th	9.	1.
2017	Hochfilzen	17th	43.	22nd	15th	2.	2.
2019	Ostersund	12.	3.	3.	5.	6th	-	-
2020	Antholz	7th	2.	7th	2.	1.	7th	-

Junior World Championships

Results at the Junior World Championships:

World championships		singles	sprint	persecution	Season
year	place
2011	Nové Město	67.	20th	11.	8th.
2013	Obertilliach	11.	5.	4th	2.

Web links

Commons : Quentin Fillon Maillet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Quentin Fillon Maillet in the database of the IBU (English)
• Quentin Fillon Maillet website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quentin Fillon Maillet. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Quentin Fillon-Maillet: portrait du sixième homme on nordicmag.info. Published in Nordic Magazine in December 2012 , published online on January 29, 2014. Accessed April 1, 2020. Quentin's two years younger brother Jason also took part in the 2013 Junior World Championships and achieved a 27th place as the best result.
3. ↑ Quentin Fillon Maillet, biathlète français on skinordik.com. Released June 28, 2019. Accessed April 1, 2020.
4. ↑ Mirko Hominal: Dumont, Legrand, Chavoutier et Fillon Maillet en argent on ski-nordique.net. Released February 1, 2013. Accessed April 1, 2020.
5. ↑ Together with Simon Desthieux , who was promoted at the same time, Fillon Maillet replaced Vincent Jay, who had retired the previous season, and the demoted Florent Claude , cf. Fédération française de ski: Collectifs Nationaux Biathlon 2013-2014 on ffs.fr, April 19, 2013; accessed on April 1, 2020. As well as Sélection Collectif Biathlon France 2012/2013 on ffs.fr, April 24, 2012; accessed on April 1, 2020.
6. ↑ “Martin has created a new kind of biathlon sport. He found the perfect solution for running and shooting. […] He's a great role model for me. ”Jerry Kokesh: Promises kept . In: Biathlonworld , number 52/2019. Pp. 48-52; cloudinary.com (PDF)
7. ↑ William Pereira: “Avec Martin, on arrive at faire le switch entre la bagarre sur les skis et la vie de groupe”, Quentin Fillon-Maillet se livre on 20minutes.fr. Published on February 14, 2020. Accessed on April 1, 2020. "[...] je suis vraiment fier d'avoir Martin dans mon équipe et je peux le remercier pour tout ce qu'il a fait" (in German: "[...] ] I'm really proud to have Martin on my team and I can only thank him for everything he does ")
8. ^ ^{A b} William Pereira: "Avec Martin, on arrive at faire le switch entre la bagarre sur les skis et la vie de groupe", Quentin Fillon-Maillet se livre on 20minutes.fr. Published on February 14, 2020. Accessed April 1, 2020.
9. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jerry Kokesh: Promises kept . In: Biathlonworld , number 52/2019. Pp. 48-52; cloudinary.com (PDF).
10. ↑ Live ticker for the men's 4 × 7.5km relay in Oberhof on eurosport.de, January 8, 2015; accessed on April 1, 2020.
11. ↑ Claus Dieterle: Schempp wins spectacular final on faz.net. Released January 18, 2015. Accessed April 1, 2020.
12. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2016/2017 , pp. 422–424.
13. ↑ IBU Biathlon Guide 2017/2018 , pp. 324–326; cloudinary.com (PDF)
14. ↑ Pyeongchang Men's Matchup: France vs. Norway . IBU , on biathlonworld.com, February 2, 2018; accessed on April 1, 2020.
15. ^ Martin, Simon Desthieux, Anais Bescond, Justine Braisaz Lead France . IBU, on biathlonworld.com, November 22, 2018; accessed on April 1, 2020.
16. ↑ 27.01.2019 - Quentin Fillon Maillet cheers on biathlon-antholz.it at the Antholz graduation . Released January 27, 2019. Accessed April 1, 2020.
17. ↑ Johannes Thingnes Bø in the IBU database (English), Quentin Fillon Maillet in the IBU database (English), Martin Fourcade in the IBU database (English)
18. ↑ In view of Loginow's previous doping ban and a continuing suspicion, his admission to the competition was heavily criticized, cf. Anne Armbrecht: The unloved winner on spiegel.de. Released on February 16, 2020. Accessed April 1, 2020.
19. ↑ Fillon Maillet s'affirme comme le patron on ladepeche.fr. Released on December 22, 2019. Accessed April 1, 2020.
20. ↑ Eurosport : Clean man and series winner: Fourcade has "fulfilled his dreams" on eurosport.de. Released March 14, 2020. Accessed April 1, 2020.
21. ↑ Quentin Fillon Maillet: "C'est presque surréaliste" on ledauphine.com. Released March 27, 2020. Accessed April 2, 2020.
22. ↑ Meryem Aksoy: Interview with Quentin Fillon Maillet, World Champion Biathlete on bontena.com. Released November 5, 2019. Accessed April 1, 2020.
23. ↑ Quentin Fillon Maillet [@quentinfillon] (March 8, 2018): “Je vous l'avais dit, je suis de retour! Aujourd'hui est la journée de la femme, je dédicace ce podium à ma copine Lydie qui gagne un combat contre le cancer. "[Tweet] Retrieved from Twitter on April 1, 2020.