Jean-Philippe Leguellec
Jean -Philippe Leguellec (born 31 July 1985 in Kingston, Ontario ) is a former Canadian biathlete.
Jean -Philippe Leguellec began in 1999 as a 13 -year-old Royal Air Cadet with the biathlon. In races at the local level he was discovered by his future manager Daniel Lefebvre. The student from Gatineau starts for the club Courcelette. Since 2003 Leguellec a member of the Canadian national team. His first Junior World Championships in 2003 in Kościelisko, here was an eleventh place in the pursuit of his best result. The Junior World Championships in Haute Maurienne in 2004 were very successful for Leguellec. In individual he finished fourth in the sprint he won the gold medal in the pursuit silver behind Emil Hegle Svendsen. Even with the season he won silver. In 2005 he started in Kontiolahti in his third Junior World Championships and won bronze team here again. He also joined, usually with rather mediocre success in the Junior European Cup on. His last Junior World Championships were held in 2006 in Presque Isle. He finished fourth in singles and won bronze in the sprint.
Since the season 2005/ 06 starts in the Canadian Biathlon World Cup. His first result was number 71 in a sprint in Ostersund. The highlight of the season were the 2006 Olympics in Turin. In individual Leguellec 48, was in the Sprint 59 2007 he started for the first time at Biathlon World Championships. In the individual he was 40th, 64th in the sprint and the relay 17 in the World Cup, it was not until the second World Cup stop in Hochfilzen in the 2007/08 season, where he won the Sprint Cup points as 23 for the first time. A good result reached the Canadians as fifth in the sprint race at the Summer Biathlon World Championships 2008 in Haute Maurienne. The first sprint of the season 2008/ 09 Leguellec reached in Antholz seventh in a pursuit race his best-ever placing, in Hochfilzen, he was eighth. It was by far the best season of the Canadian, in the overall standings, he reached the 32nd place. Very successful was the season 2009/10. Leguellec reached six of his nine best results this season, including a sixth place in the sprint of Vancouver. It was also his best result at the Olympic Winter Games in his Canadian homeland, where he was the only starter in his country in the individual race. In the pursuit he finished eleventh, in individual 13 and only in the mass start, he reached the last 30 as a place less good placement. With Robin Clegg, Marc -André Bédard and Brendan Green Leguellec also came to a respectable tenth place in the relay competition. In the summer of the Canadian won in Jericho at the North American Biathlon Cup 2010 rollerski both titles in the sprint and pursuit. After the games, he contracted mononucleosis The following season, he could not therefore build on the achievements of the previous year.
At the start of the World Cup 2012/2013 Ostersund Jean -Philippe Leguellec won the sprint race over 10 km and celebrated his first victory in the World Cup and was the outstanding athlete of an increasingly stronger Canadian team.
After his return from the Olympics Leguellec announced end of his career.
Biathlon World Cup rankings
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