Simon Fourcade

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Simon Fourcade biathlon
Simon Fourcade 2010
Association FranceFrance France
birthday 25th April 1984 (age 36)
place of birth Perpignan , France
Career
job Sports soldier
society Villard de Lans Ski Club
Trainer Siegfried Mazet
Admission to the
national team
2001
Debut in the World Cup 2004
World Cup victories 8 (season)
status resigned
End of career March 24, 2019
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × gold 3 × silver 1 × bronze
SWM medals 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
JWM medals 4 × gold 4 × silver 0 × bronze
IBU Biathlon world championships
gold 2009 Pyeongchang Mixed relay
silver 2012 Ruhpolding singles
silver 2012 Ruhpolding Season
silver 2013 Nove Mesto Season
bronze 2015 Kontiolahti Season
IBU Summer biathlon world championships
gold 2008 Haute Maurienne sprint
gold 2008 Haute Maurienne persecution
gold 2008 Haute Maurienne Mixed relay
IBU Biathlon Junior World Championships
silver 2002 Ridnaun sprint
gold 2003 Koscielsko singles
silver 2004 Haute Maurienne singles
gold 2004 Haute Maurienne sprint
gold 2004 Haute Maurienne persecution
silver 2005 Kontiolahti sprint
gold 2005 Kontiolahti persecution
silver 2005 Kontiolahti Season
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup 05. ( 2011/2012 )
Individual World Cup 01. (2011/2012)
Sprint World Cup 09. ( 2009/2010 )
Pursuit World Cup 10. (2011/2012)
Mass start world cup 06. (2011/2012)
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
singles 0 3 0
sprint 0 2 1
persecution 0 1 1
Mass start 0 1 0
Season 8th 7th 8th
 

Simon Fourcade (born April 25, 1984 in Perpignan ) is a former French biathlete . He was multiple junior world champion, world champion with the mixed relay and was able to win the world cup in the individual discipline. He is the four years older brother of Martin Fourcade .

Career

Simon Fourcade has been involved in biathlon since 1998 and has been a member of the French national team since 2001. The sports soldier from Villard-de-Lans starts for the Villard de Lans Ski Club .

Even as a junior, Fourcade was extremely successful. In 2003 in Kościelisko he won the individual title, in 2004 in Haute-Maurienne in the sprint and the pursuit, each before the later Olympic relay winner Michael Rösch and in 2005 in the pursuit in Kontiolahti . There are also four vice junior world championships between 2002 and 2005.

In the World Cup he was used for the first time in the final of the 2003/04 season at Holmenkollen in Oslo . After a 54th place in the sprint, he advanced to 27th place during the pursuit. At the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin he was used in the individual competition, where he was 31st. Fourcade experienced his first world championship in 2006 in Pokljuka , where he was only used in the relay. In the following season, at the 2007 World Cup in Antholz , he took part in all competitions. After a 37th place in the sprint and a 25th place in the pursuit, Fourcade achieved his best individual placements ever with the two eighth places in the individual and in the mass start. Fourcade achieved the first podium on March 1, 2007 when he finished second in the individual race in Lahti behind his compatriot Raphaël Poirée . In the winter of 2007/08 the Frenchman was in the top ten ten times and finished the season 17th. The following 2008/2009 season was even more successful for Fourcade. At the start in Östersund he was able to run on the podium for the second time with third place in the sprint. In addition to numerous other placements among the top ten at the World Cup events, the World Cup in Pyeongchang was the highlight of the season. Simon Fourcade won the gold medal with the French mixed relay and was able to reach the top 10 in all races. In the overall World Cup he finished 15th at the end of the season. Fourcade took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics again in Vancouver . His best result was 14th place in the mass start. In the overall World Cup standings, Fourcade was seventh at the end of his best season to date, the 2009/2010 season . However, he was able to improve his best result in the overall World Cup in the 2011/2012 season to fifth place.

Due to a compartment syndrome , the 2012/2013 season began for Fourcade with an operation, which meant that he could not take part in the first World Cup races. He completed his first race in Oberhof, but with little success. Also at the Biathlon World Championships 2013 in Nove Mesto na Moravě participated Fourcade. He won a silver medal with the men's relay and was twice in the top ten. The best result of the season he achieved at the World Cup final in Khanty-Mansiysk , he was second behind the Austrian Christoph Sumann in pursuit.

He ended his career after the 2018/19 season.

statistics

World Cup victories

team
No. date place discipline
1. February 19, 2009 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang (World Cup) Mixed season 1
2. 0December 6, 2009 SwedenSweden Ostersund Season 2
3. January 22, 2012 ItalyItaly Antholz Season 3
4th January 10, 2013 GermanyGermany Ruhpolding Season 3
5. 20th January 2013 ItalyItaly Antholz Season 3
6th 19th January 2014 ItalyItaly Antholz Season 3
7th November 30, 2014 SwedenSweden Ostersund Mixed season 4
8th. 05th March 2017 Korea SouthSouth Korea Pyeongchang Season 5

2With Vincent Jay , Vincent Defrasne and Martin Fourcade .
3With Jean-Guillaume Béatrix , Alexis Bœuf and Martin Fourcade.
4thWith Anaïs Bescond , Anaïs Chevalier and Martin Fourcade.
5With Jean-Guillaume Béatrix, Simon Desthieux and Martin Fourcade.

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
  • Relay: including mixed relays
placement singles sprint persecution Mass start Season total
1st place 7th 7th
2nd place 3 2 1 5 11
3rd place 1 1 7th 9
Top 10 13 17th 19th 12 40 101
Scoring 22nd 56 49 31 46 204
Starts 26th 90 57 31 46 250
As of March 22, 2015

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