Raphaël Poirée

Raphaël Poirée
Full name	Raphaël Poirée
Association	France
birthday	9th August 1974 (age 46)
place of birth	Rives , France
size	174 cm
Weight	72 kg
Career
job	Sports soldier
society	Vercors Ski De Fond
Trainer	Christian Dumont
Admission to the national team	1992
World Cup victories	46 (44 individual wins)
status	resigned
End of career	2007
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 2 × World Cup medals 8 × 3 × 7 ×
winter Olympics silver 2002 Salt Lake City persecution bronze 2002 Salt Lake City Season bronze 2006 Turin Season  Biathlon world championships bronze 1998 Pokljuka persecution bronze 2000 Oslo persecution gold 2000 Oslo Mass start gold 2001 Pokljuka Mass start gold 2001 Pokljuka Season silver 2001 Pokljuka persecution gold 2002 Oslo Mass start bronze 2003 Khanty-Mansiysk Mass start gold 2004 Oberhof singles gold 2004 Oberhof sprint gold 2004 Oberhof Mass start silver 2004 Oberhof persecution bronze 2004 Oberhof Season bronze 2005 Hochfilzen Mass start bronze 2006 Pokljuka Mixed relay gold 2007 Antholz singles silver 2007 Antholz Mixed relay bronze 2007 Antholz Mass start
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	1. ( 1999/2000 , 2000/2001 ,      2001/2002 , 2003/2004 )
Individual World Cup	1. ( 2003/2004 , 2006/2007 )
Sprint World Cup	1. ( 2003/2004 )
Pursuit World Cup	1. ( 1998/1999 , 2000/2001 ,      2001/2002 , 2003/2004 )
Mass start world cup	1. ( 1999/2000 , 2003/2004 ,      2004/2005 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3. singles 7th 3 0 sprint 13 13 8th persecution 15th 17th 7th Mass start 9 6th 5 Season 2 2 10
last change: December 17, 2013

Raphaël Poirée (born August 9, 1974 in Rives , Isère , France ) is a former French biathlete .

Biathlon career

Ascent

Raphaël Poirée's international biathlon career began in 1994 when he won two world junior titles. In the Biathlon World Cup , he made his first appearance in the 1995/96 season when he finished 17th in the overall World Cup at the end of the season. Poirée achieved his first World Cup victory in the 1997/98 season on January 8, 1998 in the sprint in Ruhpolding, and with fifth place in the overall World Cup, Poirée also achieved his first top 10 placement. In March 1998 he also won his first medal at world championships , and in the pursuit race in Pokljuka , Slovenia , he took bronze. In the following season, as in the previous season, he finished fifth in the overall World Cup.

Successful years

With the beginning of the 1999/00 season the years began in which Poirée developed into one of the dominant athletes in biathlon. He won the overall World Cup three times in a row and thus became a permanent competitor of the Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen . Poirée was also successful several times at the world championships: Between 2000 and 2002 he won the world championship title in mass start three times in a row, which also earned him the frequently cited title of “mass start master”. In 2001 he also won the gold medal with the French relay.

Two long-time competitors together at the shooting range: Raphaël Poirée and Ole Einar Bjørndalen at the World Cup in Antholz 2006

The 2002/03 season was less successful for Poirée . In the overall World Cup he finished fourth, at the World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk he only won a bronze medal in the mass start. The 2003/04 season , however, was the most successful season in the Frenchman's career : Poirée won the overall World Cup and all discipline World Cups for the fourth time. At the 2004 World Championships in Oberhof , he was the most successful athlete at the World Championships with three gold medals in the sprint, individual and mass start, and set a record with his wife: The couple won seven out of ten gold medals.

No luck at the Olympics

Raphaël Poirée was denied an Olympic gold medal despite participating in three Olympic Games. In 2002 he won his only individual Olympic medal with the silver medal in the pursuit in Salt Lake City , with the French relay he won bronze in Turin in 2002 and 2006 .

End of career

During the 2007 World Championships in Antholz , Poirée announced after winning the gold medal in singles that he would end his career at the end of the 2006/07 season . He finished the World Cup with a complete set of medals, in addition to the gold medal in the individual, Poirée won silver with the French mixed relay and bronze in the mass start.

In contrast to the start of the season, the races after the World Cup were extremely successful for him. This difference in performance in both halves of the season was explained by the fact that he and his wife were expecting a child. After the birth of his second child, Poirée, who also knew that these would be his last races, became particularly relaxed. At the third from last World Cup station in Lahti , Finland , he was able to win all three races. He continued this winning streak at the penultimate World Cup station in Oslo with victory in the individual. This meant victory in the individual discipline World Cup and brought Poirée back into a promising position in the overall World Cup after an initially unsatisfactory season. His penultimate race he finished second behind Bjørndalen. Poirée contested his last World Cup race with the mass start on March 11, 2007 in Oslo, which he finished in second place. Even here, only one target photo could show that he was only defeated by a few centimeters by his long-time rival Ole Einar Bjørndalen. He was able to finish all eight of his last individual races on a podium, he was five times first, twice second and once third. He no longer made the trip to Khanty-Mansiysk for the last World Cup station, although he was only a few points behind leader Michael Greis in the overall World Cup .

Poirée competed in his last races outside of the biathlon World Cup: at the 2007 military world championships in Võru , Estonia , he won the sprint world title on March 22nd, and at the French championships on March 30th in Le Grand-Bornand he was also able to make the mass start for decide. At the beginning of 2008 Poirée successfully took part in several popular ski marathons , including the legendary Transjurassienne Worldloppet run in the French Jura, where he missed a podium by a few centimeters with fourth place.

After his career, Poirée mainly wants to take care of his family. At the 2008 World Championships in Östersund he was employed as an expert for Eurosport . He also works as a trainer in Norway, among others for Lars Berger .

Before the 2012/2013 season, Raphael Poirée moved to Belarus as a coach. His family, his wife Liv Grete and the three girls, should continue to live in Norway. The collaboration was initially only planned until the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. Poirée worked together with the German Klaus Siebert, who was honored by the Belarusian Association for his work at the beginning of April. The trainer project ended early in April 2013 by mutual agreement.

Balance sheet

Raphaël Poirée achieved his greatest successes at world championships , between 2000 and 2007 he was world champion eight times and won 18 world championship medals (8 gold, 3 silver, 7 bronze). He is also a four-time overall World Cup winner and achieved 44 World Cup victories. This makes him the most successful biathlete in the World Cup after Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Martin Fourcade .

Poirée is also only one of three biathletes alongside his compatriot Martin Fourcade and the Norwegian Johannes Thingnes Bø , who managed to win the overall World Cup and all discipline World Cups within one season (2003/04 season). In his career he managed to win ten discipline world cup rankings and - together with the four overall world cup victories - 14 world cup rankings. Only Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Martin Fourcade have won more World Cup rankings in the men's category.

Private life

Poirée was married to the former Norwegian biathlete Liv Grete Poirée (née Skjelbreid ) from 2000 to 2013 . The two have three daughters together.

Since 2013 Poirée has been with the Norwegian Anne Tunes, who also has three children. The couple married in the summer of 2016.

His brother Gaël Poirée is also a former biathlete. Ann-Elen Skjelbreid , Liv Grete's sister, is also a biathlete. Egil Gjelland , his former brother-in-law, is an athlete ambassador for the development aid organization Right to Play .

At the end of 2009, Poirée had an accident with his quad bike and was treated in a clinic until the end of January 2010.

statistics

World Cup victories

Single race

Relay race

No. date place discipline 1. 0Jan. 8, 1998  Ruhpolding 10 km sprint 2. Dec 12, 1998  Hochfilzen 12.5 km pursuit 3. Jan. 13, 1999  Ruhpolding 15 km mass start 4th Jan. 17, 1999  Ruhpolding 12.5 km pursuit 5. Feb. 27, 1999  Lake Placid 12.5 km pursuit 6th Dec 15, 1999  Pokljuka 20 km individual 7th Jan. 20, 2000  Antholz 10 km sprint 8th. Jan. 26, 2000  Oslo ( World Cup ) 15 km mass start 9. 0Dec 7, 2000  Antholz 10 km sprint 10. 0Dec 8, 2000  Antholz 12.5 km pursuit 11. Dec 15, 2000  Antholz 10 km sprint 12. 0Jan. 4, 2001  Oberhof 10 km sprint 13. Jan. 14, 2001  Ruhpolding 12.5 km pursuit 14th 0Feb 9, 2001  Pokljuka ( World Cup ) 15 km mass start 15th Dec 16, 2001  Pokljuka 12.5 km pursuit 16. Jan. 12, 2002  Oberhof 15 km mass start 17th Jan. 18, 2002  Ruhpolding 10 km sprint 18th Jan. 27, 2002  Antholz 12.5 km pursuit 19th 14 Mar 2002  Lahti 10 km sprint 20th 17th Mar 2002  Lahti 12.5 km pursuit 21st 24 Mar 2002  Oslo 15 km mass start 22nd Dec 19, 2002  Brezno-Osrblie 10 km sprint 23. Dec 22, 2002  Brezno-Osrblie 12.5 km pursuit 24. Dec 18, 2003  Brezno-Osrblie 20 km individual 25th Dec 21, 2003  Brezno-Osrblie 12.5 km pursuit 26th 0Jan. 8, 2004  Pokljuka 10 km sprint 27. Jan. 25, 2004  Antholz 15 km mass start 28. 0Feb 7, 2004  Oberhof ( WM ) 10 km sprint 29 Feb 12, 2004  Oberhof ( WM ) 20 km individual 30th Feb 15, 2004  Oberhof ( WM ) 15 km mass start 31. Feb 29, 2004  Lake Placid 12.5 km pursuit 32. 04th Mar 2004  Fort Kent 10 km sprint 33. 05th Mar 2004  Fort Kent 12.5 km pursuit 34. 13 Mar 2004  Oslo 12.5 km pursuit 35. Dec 19, 2004  Ostersund 15 km mass start 36. 0Jan. 9, 2005  Oberhof 12.5 km pursuit 37. 19 Mar 2005  Khanty-Mansiysk 15 km mass start 38. 0Dec 8, 2005  Hochfilzen 20 km individual 39. Dec 14, 2006  Hochfilzen 10 km sprint 40. 0Feb 6, 2007  Antholz ( WM ) 20 km individual 41. 01st Mar 2007  Lahti 20 km individual 42. 03rd Mar 2007  Lahti 10 km sprint 43. 04th Mar 2007  Lahti 12.5 km pursuit 44. 0March 8 2007  Oslo 20 km individual

No. date place discipline 1. Feb 11, 2001  Pokljuka ( World Cup ) 4 × 7.5 km relay 1 2. Jan. 16, 2003  Ruhpolding 4 × 7.5 km relay 2 1with Gilles Marguet , Vincent Defrasne and Julien Robert 2with Ferréol Cannard , Vincent Defrasne and Julien Robert

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
1st place	7th	13	15th	9		2	46
2nd place	3	13	17th	6th		2	41
3rd place		8th	7th	5		10	30th
Top 10	24	61	56	29	1	43	214
Scoring	39	87	68	34	1	46	275
Starts	49	107	70	34	1	47	308

winter Olympics

	Individual competitions				Season
	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start
1998 Winter Olympics | Nagano	22nd	DNF			7th
2002 Winter Olympics | Salt Lake City	10.	9.	2.		3.
2006 Winter Olympics | Turin	20th	8th.	DNF	12.	3.

World championships

	Individual competitions				Team competitions
	singles	sprint	persecution	Mass start	team	Season	Mixed relay
World Championships 1996 | Ruhpolding	67.	23.			10.	5.
World Championships 1997 | Brezno-Osrblie	14th	59.	-		7th	5.
World Championships 1998 | Pokljuka 1			3.		7th
World Championships 1999 | Kontiolahti	19th	26th	11.	9.		12.
World Championships 2000 | Oslo	4th	6th	3.	1.		10.
World Championships 2001 | Pokljuka	37.	7th	2.	1.		1.
World Championships 2002 | Oslo 1				1.
World Championships 2003 | Khanty-Mansiysk	7th	DNF	-	3.		13.
World Championships 2004 | Oberhof	1.	1.	2.	1.		3.
World Championships 2005 | Hochfilzen	8th.	13.	9.	3.		5.	6th
World Championships 2006 | Pokljuka 1							3.
World Championships 2007 | Antholz	1.	8th.	6th	3.		-	2.

¹ Only the non-Olympic competitions were held

Web links

Commons : Raphaël Poirée  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Raphaël Poirée in the IBU database (English)
• Fan site about Poirée and the French biathlon team
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Individual evidence

1. ^ Raphaël Poirée. Eurosport , accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 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.  
3. ↑ http://www.biathlonworld.com/ger/page_000231_700.htm  ( page no longer available , 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.  
4. ↑ Military World Championships 2007 in Võru: Sprint result from March 22, 2007 ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2007 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.  
5. ↑ French Championships 2007 in Le Grand-Bornand: Result of the mass start of March 30, 2007  ( page no longer available , 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.  
6. ↑ Belarusians and Raphael Poiree split up. biathlon-online.de, April 23, 2013, accessed on April 23, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Liv Grete og Raphael Poiree separeres. dagbladet.no, July 5, 2013, accessed January 31, 2014 . 
8. ↑ http://www.seher.no/kjendis/raphal-poire-giftet-seg-i-hemmelighet/64071322
9. ↑ http://www.righttoplay-ski.com/nav1/cross-country/news-events/detail/article/37/successful_support_for_right_to_play_in_france.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Biathlon - Poiree released from clinic at Focus Online from January 26, 2010
11. ↑ After the quad accident: Ex-biathlete Raphael Poiree gives the first interview ( memento of the original from January 29, 2010 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.