Hervé Flandin

Hervé Flandin ( born June 4, 1965 in Modane, France ) is a former French biathlete. He became the first Frenchman a World Cup race in biathlon.

Hervé Flandin started as an employee of the French customs for the club Les Douanes Savoie and began 1984 with the sport of biathlon. He is 1,81 m tall and weighed about 73 kg competition times. He lives in Bramans in his home region in the department of Savoie, is married and operates in his spare time mountaineering. Flandin was the late 1980s and into the 90s, one of the most successful biathletes of France, but never won a major title. The greatest success of his career was winning the bronze medal at the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer with the French squadron. As a finisher, he led the French in the cast Thierry Dusserre, Patrice Bailly -Salins and Lionel Laurent in third place behind Germany and Russia. He could still run from fifth to the front, he overtook the White Russians Alyaksandr Papou and benefited from the misfortune of the Italians, whose cage rotor Andreas Zingerle had three times the penalty loop. In individual he placed only on rank 44 in the sprint he was despite one penalty best Frenchman in eighth place. His first Olympic Games witnessed Flandin, 1988, in Calgary, he was ranked 52 in the sprint, 56th in singles and was tenth in the relay. Even at the Olympics in his home belonged to Flandin French team, but was only used in the sprint and the relay. He was top of his team in the sprint at number ten, one shooting error in the second stop cost him a medal here. In the season he was there already -cage rotor - also ran Xavier Blond, Thierry Gerbier, and Christian Dumont - and came at number six.

Since 1986 Flandin was used in the Biathlon World Cup in 1987 and he ran the first time for his team at the World Championships. In Lake Placid, he was in the single 13 and Sprint 20 With the next World Championships in 1989, he occupied in the single 25 and the Sprint 36th place The most successful for Flandin World Championships were distributed due to weather conditions over several venues Championships 1990. In individual in Minsk still aft, he won with the team ( Dumont, Bouthiaux, Flandin, Gerbier ) in Oslo his first medal, a bronze. Two days later, at about 7.5 km sprint he missed the bronze medal despite an error-free shooting by 16 seconds of this fourth ranking as a whole remained his best finish in a solo race at the World Championships. When again shifted relay race, which was held ultimately on 18 March 1990 in Kontiolahti, he was in third place continuously with Christian Dumont, Xavier Blond and Thierry Gerbier Vice World Champion behind surprise winners Italy and before the last time antretenden season of the GDR. In Lahti 1991 the French squadron in the occupation Blonde, Marguet, Dumont and Flandin sixth. The next World Championships ran Flandin 1995 when beating his compatriot Patrice Bailly -Salins in single, he finished seventh in the sprint it was rank 16 and in the season he won the final again the runner-up title, only thirteen seconds, the French lay back against Germany. The squadron was in the cast Lionel Laurent, Patrice Bailly- Salins, Thierry Dusserre and Hervé Flandin. His last appearance at the World Championships he had in 1996 in Ruhpolding, where he placed in the sprint and 45th in the relay ( Perrot, Poirée, Dusserre, Flandin ) fifth.

Hervé Flandin was the first Frenchman to win a race in the Biathlon World Cup. At the World Cup in Calgary in 1991, he won more than 20 kilometers with only one penalty ahead of his compatriot Patrice Bailly. He managed at fifteen single and nine team events in the World Cup rankings in the top ten and stood on the podium seven times, including three times in a single race. His best finish in the overall standings of the Biathlon World Cup was twelfth in the season 1993/ 1994. Overall, Flandin won eleven titles at the French Championships. Flandin 1997 suffered a serious injury to the chest, when he fell from nine meters from the roof of his house in Bramans. Then he ended his active career. For several years he has been one of the technical delegates at the IBU responsible for the regulation-compliant implementation of events.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including hosting the Olympic Games and World Championships ).

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