Sylvain Guillaume
Sylvain Guillaume 
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 France
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| birthday | July 6, 1968 | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Champagnole , France
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| size | 171 cm | |||||||||||||||
| Weight | 61 kg | |||||||||||||||
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| society | Douanes ski club | |||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 1988 | |||||||||||||||
| status | resigned | |||||||||||||||
| End of career | 2002 | |||||||||||||||
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| Debut in the World Cup | March 25, 1988 | |||||||||||||||
| World Cup victories (individual) | 1 ( details ) | |||||||||||||||
| Overall World Cup | 6. ( 1995/96 , 1997/98 ) | |||||||||||||||
| Sprint World Cup | 48th ( 2000/01 ) | |||||||||||||||
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Sylvain Guillaume (born July 6, 1968 in Champagnole ) is a former French Nordic combined skier .
Career
Guillaume, who started for the Douanes ski club , made his international debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup on March 25, 1988 in Rovaniemi . In the Gundersen Singles, he achieved his first four World Cup points as 12th, which placed him in 31st place in the overall World Cup ranking of the 1987/88 season. Also at the beginning of the 1988/89 season in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer he achieved a good position in 11th place, before he achieved his first top 10 position in March 1989 in Oslo as 10th . Three weeks later he narrowly missed his first World Cup podium as fourth in Thunder Bay and was 19th in the overall World Cup standings at the end.
In the following season, Guillaume again competed in three World Cups in Saalfelden, Štrbské Pleso and Lahti and won a total of seven World Cup points, with which he again achieved a good 22nd place in the overall World Cup ranking. In the 1990/91 World Cup season he only started in Oslo and was therefore only able to win one point for the overall World Cup ranking. At the same time, he started in the B World Cup and achieved 23rd place overall with 14 points.
In January 1992 he came back to the World Cup squad in Murau and just barely missed a podium again in fourth. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Guillaume won the individual silver medal behind his compatriot Fabrice Guy and ahead of the Austrian Klaus Sulzenbacher . Together with Francis Repellin and Fabrice Guy, he just missed the medal ranks in fourth in the team competition. Ten days after the games he was ninth in the Gundersen singles over 15 km in Lahti. At the end of the season he was third in Oslo for the first time in a World Cup on the podium. In the season's overall standings, he was seventh with 42 points and was among the top ten for the first time.
At the beginning of the 1992/93 season , Guillaume was 11th in Courchevel , before moving again to the B World Cup. There he was able to achieve second place in Hinterzarten at the end of the season and win his first competition in Chaux-Neuve a week later. From December 1993 he was back in the World Cup squad and was able to fight his way back to the top ten with eighth place in St. Moritz . At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , he was able to place sixth in the team competition after finishing ninth in the individual with the team.
After a long break from competition, Guillaume came back to the B World Cup in Schwarzach im Pongau in January 1995 and was back on the podium right away as second. A month later he started again in the World Cup in Falun , Oslo and Bad Goisern on Lake Hallstatt , but missed another leap into the top of the world with mediocre placings that earned him points but not a top placement. Surprisingly he was able to win the bronze medal in the individual at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay behind the Norwegian Fred Børre Lundberg and the Finn Jari Mantila .
At the beginning of the 1995/96 World Cup season in St.Moritz and Schonach in the Black Forest , he was able to win points again before he achieved his first career World Cup victory in Liberec . He was also on the podium again in Seefeld in Tirol as second. After further top 10 placements, he achieved 799 points at the end of the season in sixth place, his best position in the overall ranking since the beginning of his career.
He also started the 1996/97 season in tenth place in Rovaniemi and 15th in Hakuba , but was unable to match the previous season's performance in the following World Cups, despite performance improvements. In the end it was only enough for 21st place overall. In January 1998 he came back to the top of the world with a second place in Schonach in the Black Forest . At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he won the bronze medal together with Nicolas Bal , Ludovic Roux and Fabrice Guy in the team competition. As in 1994, it was only ninth in the individual. After Guillaume again reached second place at the sprint in Oslo at the end of the season, he repeated the result from the 1995/96 season and was again sixth in the overall standings.
In the 1998/99 season , Guillaume did not start until January 1999 with a 14th place in the individual in Liberec and a 12th place in the sprint in St. Moritz. Shortly afterwards he started at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein . After a ninth place in the individual, he was fourth with the team and missed a medal in the team competition. In the sprint it was only enough for Guillaume to rank 28. After he could not achieve a top position in Lahti either, he finished the season in 30th place overall.
After Guillaume clearly won World Cup points at the beginning of the 1999/00 World Cup season in Vuokatti , Steamboat Springs and Oberwiesenthal , he missed the points in Reit im Winkl for the first time in years. He also clearly missed the World Cup points in Schonach, Val di Fiemme and Breitenwang . Although he was able to win points again in Liberec in 29th place, he was no longer able to keep his performance constant and mostly ended up only in middle places. In the end it was only enough for him to finish 35th overall. Even at the start of the 2000/01 World Cup season , he was no longer able to build on his old achievements and then moved back to the B World Cup in January 2001. Here Guillaume was able to reach the podium in second place in Val di Fiemme, in Klingenthal and in Liberec. Back in the World Cup in February 2001, he finished ninth in Liberec.
At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti, Guillaume disappointed with 39th place in the individual and 31st place in the sprint. Even with the team, he could only reach ninth place. Until the end of the season he only managed to reach the points in Sapporo and, as in the previous year, did not get beyond 35th place in the overall ranking. At the beginning of the 2000/01 World Cup season , he clearly missed the points before he started again in the B World Cup in January 2002, but did not regain his old form here either. On January 19, 2002, he contested his last international race in Saalfelden and then ended his international career.
Since 1999, Guillaume has been chairman of La Sapaudia , an association that brings together athletes with disabilities. He is also involved in the field of blood and bone marrow donation.
successes
World Cup victories in individual
| No. | date | place | discipline |
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| 1. | January 20, 1996 |
 Liberec
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Gundersen large hill |
B-World Cup victories in individual
| No. | date | place | discipline |
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| 1. | March 14, 1993 |
Chaux-Neuve
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Gundersen normal hill |
statistics
Placements at the Olympic Winter Games 
| Year and place | competition | |
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| Gundersen NH | team | |
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1992 Albertville
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2. | 4th |
 1994 Lillehammer
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- | 6th |
 1998 Nagano
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- | 3. |
Placements at world championships
| Year and place | competition | ||
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| Gundersen NH | sprint | team | |
 1995 Thunder Bay
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3. | - | - |
 1999 Ramsau
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9. | 28. | 4th |
 2001 Lahti
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39. | 31. | 9. |
World Cup placements
| season | space | Points |
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| 1987/88 | 31. | 4th |
| 1988/89 | 19th | 23 |
| 1989/90 | 22nd | 7th |
| 1990/91 | 35. | 1 |
| 1991/92 | 7th | 42 |
| 1992/93 | 31. | 5 |
| 1993/94 | 19th | 215 |
| 1994/95 | 23. | 229 |
| 1995/96 | 6th | 799 |
| 1996/97 | 21st | 381 |
| 1997/98 | 6th | 686 |
| 1998/99 | 30th | 315 |
| 1999/00 | 35. | 295 |
| 2000/01 | 35. | 246 |
Web links
- Sylvain Guillaume in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Sylvain Guillaume in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Sylvain Guillaume on Les-Sports.info
Individual evidence
- ^ France Nordic Combined at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games , Sports-Reference.com, accessed July 5, 2013
- ↑ World Cup B Chaux-Neuve Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km
- ^ Nordic Combined at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Men's Individual , Sports-Reference.com, accessed July 5, 2013
- ↑ France Nordic Combined at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games , Sports-Reference.com, accessed July 5, 2013
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1995 Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km
- ^ SKI nordique. En combiné, le bronze pour Sylvain Guillaume, le chocolat pour Fabrice Guy , Liberation, March 13, 1995, accessed July 5, 2013
- ^ France Nordic Combined at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games , Sports-Reference.com, accessed July 5, 2013
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 Men's Gundersen K90 / 15.0 km
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 Men's Team K90 / 4x5 km
- ↑ World Ski Championships 1999 Men's Sprint K90 / 7.5 km
- ^ Sylvain Guillaume: La tête, les jambes et le cœur d'un skieur solidaire , Franche-Comté, accessed on July 5, 2013
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Guillaume, Sylvain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Nordic combined |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Champagnole , France |