Sébastien Lacroix lives in Bois-d'Amont and starts there for the local ski club. He contested his first international race in February 2001 in Liberec as part of the World Cup and immediately won first points as 21st. Until the end of the 2002/03 season, only further appearances in the B-World Cup and at the Junior World Championship in Schonach followed . There he was fifth in the Gundersen competition , with the relay he won the silver medal behind the team from Germany together with Maxime Laheurte , Mathieu Martinez and François Braud . Until the next Junior World Championships in Sollefteå in 2003 , Lacroix mostly started in the World Cup and achieved multiple points. In Solleftea, the Frenchman won the silver medal in the Gundersen competition behind Björn Kircheisen . In the sprint he finished eighth, in the relay competition Lacroix won the bronze medal with Braud, Laheurte and Jason Lamy Chappuis . In the following years, the Frenchman often switched between the A and B World Cups, and always achieved good results, but without achieving the ultimate breakthrough. The best result in the B World Cup was a second place behind Mikko Kokslien in Chaux-Neuve in January 2008. In December of that year Lacroix in Ramsau am Dachstein achieved a top ten position in the World Cup for the first time in tenth place. A month later he achieved his best World Cup placement in seventh place in Val di Fiemme . In the overall ranking of the 2008/09 season , Lacroix was 22. The first major event for the French was the 2009 Nordic World Ski Championships in Liberec. In the individual competition on the normal hill he was 27th, 34th in the mass start competition and fourth in the team competition. At the French Ski Jumping Championships in 2009 , Lacroix won the bronze medal in the team competition with Jason Lamy Chappuis, Ronan Lamy Chappuis and Jordan Taillard as team Jura I. In the individual he was sixth. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , Canada , he finished fourth with the team and came 19th in the two Gundersen competitions on the large and normal hill. At the 2011 World Championships in Oslo , Norway , he reached fourth place on the large hill and five on the normal hill with the French relays, while he was 23rd on the large and 30th on the normal hill in the Grundersen competitions. At the start of the 2012/13 season , he achieved his first World Cup podium with a third place in the Gundersen competition in Kuusamo . At his third Nordic World Ski Championships in 2013 in Val di Fiemme , he won the gold medal in the team competition on the normal hill and in the team sprint. In the singles he reached seventh place on the large hill and eleventh place on the normal hill. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , Russia , he just barely missed Olympic gold in fourth place with the French team, as he did four years earlier, while in the two Gundersen competitions he finished 21st on the large hill and 28th on the normal hill. After the 2014/15 season he ended his active career after winning a bronze medal in the team competition on the normal hill at the World Championships in Falun, Sweden , and finishing eighth (large hill) and eleventh (normal hill) in the Gundersen competitions.
Ski jumping
Lacroix started in Gérardmer in July 2011 for the first time as a special jumper in the FIS Cup . Two days later, on July 30, 2011, it was used for the first time in Courchevel as part of the Ski Jumping Continental Cup . In the two jumping competitions he competed there, however, he remained without any points. In September 2013 Lacroix started again in the Continental Cup in two competitions in Lillehammer, Norway , but did not make it into the second round and again remained without points. On March 7, 2015 he made his debut in the ski jumping World Cup at the team competition in Lahti and reached tenth place with the team.
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