Vincent Jay

Vincent Jay
Association	France
birthday	May 18, 1985
place of birth	Saint-Martin-de-Belleville
Career
Trainer	Christian Dumont Siegfried Mazet Stéphane Bouthiaux
Admission to the national team	2005
Debut in the World Cup	2006
World Cup victories	4 (2 individual wins)
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 1 × 2 × 0 × FM medals 2 × 2 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 2010 Vancouver sprint bronze 2010 Vancouver persecution  Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2005 Kontiolahti Season gold 2006 Presque Isle Season silver 2006 Presque Isle sprint  Biathlon Junior European Championships silver 2006 Langdorf sprint bronze 2006 Langdorf persecution bronze 2006 Langdorf Season  Military World Ski Championships gold 2007 Haanja team French championship gold 2009 Les Saisies Mass start silver 2009 Les Saisies Mixed relay gold 2010 Mass start silver 2010 Mixed relay
World Cup balance
Overall World Cup	11. ( 2009/2010 )
Individual World Cup	8. ( 2008/2009 )
last change: end of career

Vincent Jay (born May 18, 1985 in Saint-Martin-de-Belleville ) is a former French biathlete and Olympic champion in biathlon.

Vincent Jay has been biathlon since 1999 and was trained by Christian Dumont , Siegfried Mazet and Stéphane Bouthiaux . He began his international career in 2002 in junior world cup races. In 2004 he started in Haute-Maurienne for the first time in a Junior World Championship and finished seventh in the individual as the best place. After weaker results the following year in Kontiolahti , Jay was able to win the gold medal in Presque Isle in 2006 as the final runner with the relay, as well as silver in the sprint race. At the European Junior Championships in Langdorf in the same year , he again won silver in the sprint and bronze in the pursuit and with the relay.

Jay made his debut in the Biathlon World Cup at the last World Cup station of the 2005/06 season at Holmenkollen in Oslo . Here he was 65th in the sprint. In 2006/07 he started in five races of the last three World Cup stations, but just like at the start of the 2007/08 season he could not run into the points. In the first race in 2007/08, an individual in Kontiolahti , he missed the World Cup rankings as 31st by just one position. He achieved this 30th place in the sprint race in Hochfilzen . In the Pokljuka singles he was able to achieve his best position to date with rank 26. At the Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Östersund Jay was used in the mixed relay and finished seventh with this.

At the 2008 Summer Biathlon World Championships in Haute Maurienne, Jay just missed a medal in the sprint in fourth, and ninth in the pursuit. Jay made his final breakthrough in the expanded world class in the 2008/09 season . Up until the Biathlon World Championships in Pyeongchang in 2009 , he achieved his best World Cup results to date with three top 20 placements, including a tenth place in the pursuit of Hochfilzen. At the World Cup in South Korea, Jay was used in four races. In the sprint he was 43rd, 39th in the pursuit and 23rd in the individual. In the season, the Frenchman just missed a medal as the starting runner with Vincent Defrasne , Martin and Simon Fourcade in fourth. After the world championship, Jay surprisingly won the first race, an individual in Vancouver , ahead of the equally surprising second and third place finishers Daniel Böhm and Jeremy Teela . At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Jay was Olympic champion in the 10 km sprint. In the subsequent pursuit, he came in third. For his successes he was awarded the Legion of Honor in the summer of that year .

Jay was also very successful nationally. In 2009 he won the mass start title and was runner-up in the mixed relay. At the French Championships 2010 , Jay won the mass start title and was runner-up in the mixed relay.

During the World Cup in Hochfilzen in December 2012, Vincent Jay surprisingly announced the end of his career. In June 2014 he married the French ski racer Marie Marchand-Arvier .

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	1	1			2	4th
2nd place					4th	4th
3rd place			2		4th	6th
Top 10	4th	3	3	5	20th	35
Scoring	13	23	17th	12	22nd	87
Starts	20th	51	24	12	22nd	129

Web links

Commons : Vincent Jay  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official website
• Vincent Jay in the database of the IBU (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vincent Jay announces resignation. biathlon-online.de, December 9, 2012, accessed on June 29, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Jay et MMA se sont dit oui. sport.fr, June 29, 2014, accessed June 29, 2014 (French).