Véronique Claudel

Véronique Claudel
Association	France
birthday	22nd November 1966 (age 53)
place of birth	Cornimont , France
Career
status	resigned
End of career	1998
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 2 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Albertville 1992 Season bronze Lillehammer 1994 Season World championships silver Borovetz 1993 Season bronze Canmore 1994 team silver Antholz 1995 Season bronze Antholz 1995 team
World Cup balance

Véronique Claudel (born November 22, 1966 in Cornimont ) is a former French biathlete .

Véronique Claudel was one of the most successful biathletes in the world in the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. The Frenchwoman ran her first biathlon world championships in Feistritz an der Drau , but only achieved eighth place with the relay and team. In 1990 she was ninth in the Minsk singles . In Lahti , Claudel missed a first medal in 1991 with the season finishing fourth. It ran its first Winter Olympics in 1992 in Albertville . At the games in her French homeland, where women's biathlon races were part of the Olympic program for the first time, she won the gold medal in the relay competition with Corinne Niogret and Anne Briand in front of the team from Germany. Five days later, she missed a second medal in singles by just 6.2 seconds against Myriam Bédard and finished fourth. Two years later she won the bronze medal in the relay race at the Lillehammer Games with Niogret, Briand and Delphyne Burlet . In the same year there was also the bronze medal in the team competition of the Biathlon World Championships in Canmore in 1994 . At the World Championships in the year between the two Olympic Games , Claudel won the silver medal with Niogret, Burlet and Briand behind the Czech relay.

Claudel continued to achieve her international success, especially in relay and team competitions. At the Biathlon World Championships in 1995 in Antholz , she won silver with Niogret, Briand and Delphyne Heymann behind the German relay, and bronze with Niogret, Briand and Emmanuelle Claret in the team competition. 1997 Claudel finished fifth again with the team in Osrblie . In the World Cup, Claudel finished tenth in the 1987/88 season, eighth in 1991 and again tenth in the overall ranking in 1993. After the 1997/98 season , the Frenchwoman ended her career.

Results in the biathlon world cup

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						1	1
2nd place						2	2
3rd place					2	2	4th
Top 10					4th	7th	11
Scoring	29	25th	1		4th	7th	66
Starts	42	41	2		4th	7th	96
Status : data not complete

Web links

• Véronique Claudel in the IBU database (English)
• Sportsman portraits (French; PDF file; 1.26 MB)
• Véronique Claudel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )