Julien Robert
Julien Robert ( born December 11, 1974 in Grenoble, France ) is a former French biathlete.
Robert, who is married to the French biathlete Florence Baverel -Robert since 2001, currently resides in Les Hôpitaux - Neufs (France) and trained at SC douane / Montbenoit. His successes include four medals with the French relay at World Championships and Olympic Winter Games.
Career
Robert, who operates since 1994 Biathlon, came in the 1995/96 season to his first stakes in the Biathlon World Cup. Although he competed in seven races until end of season, his best result was a 41st place in Pokljuka. It was not until a year later Robert came to his next missions in the World Cup, his best result this season was the 30th place in the sprint at the Biathlon World Championships 1997 in Osrblie. The following season, 1997/98 Robert reached without exception placements outside the points, even at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, he was unable to convince the 40th place in singles and a disappointing 67th place in the sprint. Well as a consequence of these bad race, he was not used in the French squadron. Somewhat more successful was Robert the 1998/99 season, where he first took World Cup points with 20th place in the sprint from Osrblie and handed in with the 16th place in the individual race of the world championships 1999 to best race of his career at this time.
With the season 1999/ 00, Robert increased compared to previous years. Right at the first World Cup stop in Hochfilzen, he finished 19th place in the individual, in the subsequent persecution, he was able to fight through an error-free shooting to number 7 forward and so reached the first top -10 finish of his career. With positions 12 and 19 in Pokljuka he reached more good results. However, Robert was not consistent enough to regularly run into the points, so that places in the top -20 alternated with places beyond 40th place. This continued in the 2000/ 01 season. But could Surprise Robert at the World Cup at Soldier Hollow in February 2001, when he succeeded to the third place in the individual 's first and only podium finish of his career as well as the places in the Sprint 8 and 9 are in the pursuit of other top -10 results. Finally was able to finish the season as the 34th overall World Cup. One of his greatest successes succeeded Robert this season when he won the gold medal in the relay race at the 2001 World Championships in Pokljuka with Gilles Marguet, Vincent DeFrasne and Raphaël Poirée. Robert, who has been employed since 1997, always in French squadrons, could contribute to a clean shooting to this success. The following season, 2001/ 02 Robert could not repeat the performance of the preseason. With only one top 20 placement, ranked 14th in the pursuit in Ruhpolding, he reached No. 56 in the World Cup so far his worst result. The 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City went first with little success, best result was 35th in the sprint. With the French squadron, however, Robert won the bronze medal.
For the best season of the French, the 2002/03 season was. In a total of 15 of 23 races, Robert has ranked in the top 30 athletes and thus gain World Cup points to the beginning of 2003 reached Robert several top - 10 finishes. In the mass start in Oberhof he was number 4, in the pursuit of Ruhpolding he could after a 23 in the Sprint number 8 forward struggling in the mass start in Antholz he reached 6th place in the overall World Cup Robert finished at the end of this season, the 20. Place and was the third best Frenchman. The level of pre-season was Robert also show early in the season 2003/ 04. With two fifth places in the individual and the pursuit of Osrblie he was at the end of 2003, the overall World Cup ranked 11th by weaker results in the new year, were the best two 16th place in Antholz and Fort Kent, however, he fell to the end of the season on Rank 26 back. As with two major events before Robert was successful with the French squadron also at the 2004 World Championships in Oberhof, this time he won the bronze medal. The season 2004/ 05 was similar to the previous one. Roberts best results were two eleventh places in San Sicario and Khanty-Mansiysk, in the end he finished third in the overall World Cup place 29
The Olympic 2005/06 season began with a furious comeback for Robert. After being ranked No. 60 in the sprint from Östersund and had therefore qualified as a last athlete only just for the prosecution, he made a clean shooting in the Pursuit 50 seats well and reached the final 10th place after a few respectable performances before the Olympic Winter Games Robert was in Turin for the first time at a major event consistently good performance. His best finish was ranked 6 in single race, with 18th place in the sprint, 10 in the pursuit and the mass start 16 he was able to achieve four top -20 results in four races. In addition, he won as early as 2002 with the French relay bronze medal. With space 24 he was able to improve the overall World Cup for the first time in three years.
After a disappointing overall running season 2006/ 07 Julien Robert announced his resignation. He let himself but afterwards change his mind and is also in the 2007/ 08 season at the start again. He says he wants up to the 2010 Winter Olympics continue in Vancouver and serving the young athletes in the French team as a role model.
Biathlon World Cup rankings
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