Stéphanie Bouvier
Stéphanie Bouvier (* November 15, 1981 in Dijon ) is a French former Shorttrackerin.
In Bouvier's first international launch, the European Championship in 1998, it reached although no medal, but placed himself in fifth over 1500 meters quite well. However, in their first appearance at a World Cup in the same year she left the same in the heats, also not very successful was their participation in the major events of 1999. After she was first nominated in the 1999/2000 season for the World Cup, but there do not have the first run was also arrived, she successfully launched at the 2000 European Championships, where she came in three disciplines at least to the quarterfinals. This result also held at the World Championships the same year.
Nevertheless, Bouvier was not until the beginning of 2001, the international break when they initially only just missed out on the 1500 m final at the Junior World Championships and then import good rankings in the European Championship. As they reached several podium finishes on the individual routes there, she managed the third place overall and therefore the bronze medal in the all around. In the 2001 /02 season, the Olympic qualification remained the greatest power, because both the European Championship and the World Cup managed Bouvier no final. For this, they reached at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City on the 1500 -meter distance a good sixth place, also in the World Cup they narrowly missed the final.
In the World Cup season 2002/ 03 Bouvier ended several World Cup races only in the finale, their best result was even a third place on their special route 1500 m. Overall, it was in that season seventh in the World Cup, and reached the same result in the 500 - m- discipline World Cup. You also get at the major events some good results, among other things, she was second overall at the European Championships in St Petersburg and missed at World Cup individual routes twice as fourth the podium by only one rank. In the next season, she launched internationally in only two of them unsuccessfully running World Cup races, even a year later she made in the World Cup 2004/ 05 only one -finals with the relay. Also at the European Championships in 2005 she could not win a medal again, but missed such as the Fourth again just barely.
The season 2005/ 06 was for Bouvier in the World Cup also very successful, yet she managed the second Olympic qualifier. Before the Olympics, she scraped at the 2006 European Championship in Krynica Zdrój for the second time in a row in fourth past the podium. In Turin, she was able to record any successful results, just as in the World Team Championships in Montreal, only the Individual World Championship in Minneapolis she successfully completed with two fifth places. With two surprising World Cup victories in the season 2006/ 07, but with two races where the best athletes in the world did not go to the start, Bouvier returned to the international top, also she was second overall in the 2007 European Championship in Sheffield behind the series winner Ewgenija Radanowa.
In the World Cup 2007/ 08 Bouvier was able to record another top -10 results in the World Cup. At the World Championships in Gangneung, she was in the all around eighth. In the World Cup season 2008/ 09 Bouvier reached about 1500 m three times and over 500 m once the semifinals. At the European Championships in Turin it was about 1000 m, 1500 m and 3000 m respectively second and won the bronze medal in the all around.
Since Bouvier was only Shorttrackerin with international class for a long time in France, their season results are correspondingly less well. Nevertheless, the French squadron get quite successes, including two silver medals at the European Championships and the World Cup finals. In its latest 2009/10 season Bouvier failed to reach semi-finals in the World Cup. However, they qualified for their third Olympic Games in Vancouver, where she reached over 1000 m as the best result the quarterfinals. In Sofia Bouvier played her last international competition at the World Championships. About 1000 m and 1500 m, it was able to reach the semi-finals respectively. After the season Bouvier ended her active career.