Vincent Porret

Vincent Porret
Association	France
birthday	5th August 1984
place of birth	Sallanches , France
Career
job	Biathlon coach
Trainer	Pascal Etienne Jean-Pierre Amat
Admission to the national team	2006
Debut in the European Cup / IBU Cup	2006
status	resigned
End of career	2010
Medal table
JWM medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Biathlon Junior World Championships silver 2005 Kontiolahti Season
World Cup balance

Vincent Porret (born August 5, 1984 in Sallanches ) is a former French biathlete and current biathlon trainer.

Vincent Porret lives in Megève and was trained by Pascal Etienne and Jean-Pierre Amat . The technician has been involved in biathlon since 1996. Since 2003 he started in the Junior European Cup. His first race, a sprint in Forni Avoltri , he finished 19th, the following pursuit 15th. In his third race, an individual in Ridnaun , he finished ninth and thus achieved his first top ten placement. At the Junior World Championships 2003 in Kościelisko Porret finished tenth in the sprint and seventh in the pursuit. In the following season, the Frenchman achieved his first podium finish in Méribel in third place, then he came second with Simon Fourcade , Frédéric Jean and Loïs Habert in the relay. The results at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Haute-Maurienne were less good than in the previous year, the best result was 17th in the pursuit. With the season he missed a medal in fourth. In the 2004/05 season he won a first European Cup race with Tanguy Roche , Jay and Fourcade. In Kontiolahti , Porret started for the last time at the Junior World Championships. In the sprint and pursuit, the results were mediocre, things went better in the individual, where the Frenchman finished seventh. The French relay with him, Roche, Jay and Fourcade won the silver medal behind the German team.

Porret started in the senior sector in 2005. Here, too, his first race was in Obertilliach, where he finished 15th in an individual. At the end of the 2005/06 season he made it into the top ten for the first time in sixth in a sprint in Gurnigel . Towards the end of the season he was able to start in the Biathlon World Cup for the first time at Holmenkollen in Oslo and finished 75th in the individual. The following season was particularly successful. Porret achieved many single-digit results, in Cesana San Sicario he finished third in the sprint, his best individual result. At the end of the European Cup season, Porret won the overall ranking. The French competed in three races at the European Championship in Nové Město na Moravě . In the individual he was eighth, in the sprint 23rd. In the relay, Porret was eighth with Fourcade, Langel and Jean. During the season he entered the World Cup two more times, but could not win any points. In summer 2008 , the French competed in Haute Maurienne at the world championships in summer biathlon . In the roller-ski discipline, Porret finished sixth in the sprint and fell back to 21st in the pursuit. In 2012 he ended his career.

In the 2018/19 season , Vincent Porret was the French women's shooting coach in the World Cup alongside Frédéric Jean . Before that, both had the same position in the IBU Cup . After only a year, however, he was released and replaced by Franck Badiou .

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	Season	total
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
Top 10
Scoring
Starts	1	2				3
Status: after the 2008/2009 season

Web links

• Vincent Porret in the IBU database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New Season Ahead: Taking a Ride on Coaching Carousel on biathlonworld.com, accessed October 22, 2018
2. ↑ Badiou remplace Porret on ski-nordique.net, accessed on July 19, 2019 (French)