Stéphane Bouthiaux

Stéphane Bouthiaux
Association	France
birthday	March 26, 1966
place of birth	Pontarlier, France
Career
job	Biathlon coach
society	Douanes Jura
Debut in the World Cup	1987 (?)
status	resigned
End of career	1997
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Biathlon world championships bronze 1990 Kontiolahti team bronze 1995 Antholz team
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	28. ( 1990/91 )
last change: end of career

Stéphane Bouthiaux (born March 26, 1966 in Pontarlier ) is a French sports official and former biathlete and trainer. He belonged to the first internationally successful generation of French biathletes in the first half of the 1990s, who laid the foundation for the development of the successful French biathlon sport and has played a key role in shaping these successes as a trainer and official to this day.

biography

Stéphane Bouthiaux lives in Les Hopifaux-Neufs and started working for Douanes Jura . He started biathlon in 1982. In the second half of the 1980s he competed in his first international men's race in the Biathlon World Cup . The 1990 World Championships were his first international championship . At the World Championships, which had to be held at three locations due to adverse weather conditions, the Frenchman won the bronze medal in the team race alongside Christian Dumont , Hervé Flandin and Thierry Gerbier . In 1991 he was at the World Championships in Lahti 34th of the individual and with Thierry Gerbier, Patrice Bailly-Salins and Hervé Flandin sixth with the team. It took until the 1993/94 season that Bouthiaux was more successful again after a weaker career phase. He qualified for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , where he was used in sprint races and was 35th. After the Games, he achieved his best World Cup result with an eighth place in a sprint in Canmore . A year later, Bouthiaux competed in the world championships for the last time in Antholz and won the bronze medal in the team race alongside Thierry Dusserre , Franck Perrot and Lionel Laurent . In the sprint race, he finished 42nd. His last international appearances in the World Cup were Bouthiaux in the 1996/97 season .

After his active career, Bouthiaux, who is married to former biathlete Anne Briand , became a biathlon coach. Since the 2007/08 season , he has been the head coach of the French men's national team, succeeding Jean-Paul Giachino . During this time , Martin Fourcade , who is in charge of him, won the overall World Cup seven times, as well as four Olympic and ten world championship titles . There are also the Olympic victories of Vincent Jay in 2010 and the mixed relay in 2018 as well as the World Cup victories in 2009 and 2016 in the same discipline.

After the 2017/18 season he ended his eleven years as national coach and became technical director for biathlon and cross-country skiing at the French Ski Federation . Vincent Vittoz is his successor .

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
2nd place
3rd place					2		2
Top 10		1			4th		5
Scoring	2	3			4th		9
Starts	23	25th			4th		52
Status : end of career, data not complete

Web links

• Stéphane Bouthiaux in the IBU database (English)
• Stéphane Bouthiaux in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ official list of FFS on ffs.fr
2. ↑ New Season Ahead: Taking a Ride on Coaching Carousel on biathlonworld.com, accessed October 22, 2018