François Braud

Francois Braud ( born July 27, 1986 in Pontarlier ) is a French nordic combined athlete, who competes sporadically in the sub-disciplines of cross-country skiing and ski jumping.

Career

Nordic Combined

Francois Braud lives in Sallanches and starts for the club sport Chamonix. He had his first major international use at the Nordic Junior World Cup 2002 in January of the year in Schonach, where the relay competition behind the German team, he won the silver medal together with Maxime Laheurte, Martinez Mathieu and Sébastien Lacroix. In December he took in Klingenthal on his first FIS event and was part in a competition in the Gundersen method 47 In the following events, he was able to improve in the top 20. The highlight of the season was again the Junior World Championships in 2003, carried out in Sollefteå. Braud was used again in the relay competition, now in the Martinez was replaced by Jason Lamy Chappuis won bronze. In Gundersen competition he came on the 36th. It was not until December 2003 that Braud was first used in Ruhpolding in the B- 52 World Cup and there was. The Junior World Championships 2004 in Stryn brought in the team competition only sixth place, in Gundersen competition he finished 20th place in the sprint on the 19th rank. A year later he competed in his fourth Junior World Championships in Rovaniemi. With Lamy Chappuis, Laheurte and Maxime Boillot he won for the second time the silver medal in the team competition, he also finished eleventh in the Gundersen competition and eighth in the sprint. In November 2005, Braud debuted in Kuusamo in the World Cup and was 44th in a Gundersen competition. Already in his fifth World Cup competition was won by the Frenchman as 16 a sprint in Ramsau am Dachstein his first World Cup points. In February 2006, he started for the last time at a Junior World Championships in Kranj he won the title in Gundersen competition before Tom Beetz. Just ten days later, he was able to participate in Pragelato on his first Olympic competition and was in Gundersen competition 42 In relay competition, he missed as a starting runner with Lamy Chappuis, Ludovic Roux and Nicolas Bal as a Fifth -placed a medal by only seconds.

In the aftermath Braud regularly attended World Cup races in part, and ran mostly in the points. Next major event after the Olympic Games in Turin was the Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 in Sapporo. 20 He was in the sprint, 30th in the Gundersen competition and sixth with the French squadron. In March 2008, he ran in Oslo for the first time in eighth in the top ten. His best results so far reached Braud each sixth in 2009 in Val di Fiemme and Vikersund. In the overall standings of the season he was 15 Good results have reached the Frenchman also at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec. With the ranks of ten in the mass start, twelve in each of the normal and 14 on the large hill. With the Season Braud was fourth.

In the 2009/10 season he came in the World Cup ten times in the points and of which he twice reached the top ten places. At the end of the season he played a team race in Oslo, was fourth. The Vancouver Olympics were not as successful, in individual normal hill he reached einenttäuschenden 34th place. In the team competition on the large hill, he reached with his teammates Maxime Laheurte, Sebastien Lacroix and Jason Lamy Chappuis a sensational fourth place in the individual large hill came out only 14th place. In the 2010/11 season he always was in the points race up to a World Cup race. The Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 in Oslo went down to the single-start quite in order. In individual normal hill he came on the 20th place in the team normal hill in fifth place in the individual large hill to ninth place and in the team large hill to fourth place. In the season 2011/12 he was at the World Cup race in Val di Fiemme for the first time disqualified and otherwise he reached results in midfield. In the 2012/13 season he won in Sochi with the team to second place. At the Nordic World Ski Championships 2013 in Val di Fiemme, he won the gold medal in the team competition on the normal hill and the subsequent 4x5 km cross-country skiing. The single game on the normal hill and 36th on the large hill on the 19th Place.

Ski Jumping

Shortly after Christmas 2001, he participated for the first time at the Continental Cup in Engelberg in part, was 37th and missed the second round. He also took part in the Junior World Championships 2003 in Solleftea in the ski jumping team, was 12 and a year later he came up with the team at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Stryn on the 11th Place. Along with Alexandre Mabboux, Jonathan and Vincent Descombes Félisaz Sevoie he won at the French championships in ski jumping team in 2009 as the title in the Mont Blanc I team competition, in the individual competition he finished seventh. On March 6, 2010, he came in the World Cup with his teammates Vincent Descombes Sevoie, David Lazzaroni and Emmanuel Chedal on the 11th Place. In summer 2011, Braud was the two FIS Cup in Gerardmer places occupied six and four and was by two Continental Cup in Courchevel and the results were a 26th and 27th place. 2013, he was seen again in the summer in two Continental Cup in Lillehammer.