Sylvain Guillaume
Sylvain Guillaume ( born July 6, 1968 in Champagnole ) is a former French Nordic combined.
Career
Guillaume, who started for the ski club Douanes, made his international debut in the Nordic Combined World Cup on 25 March 1988 in Rovaniemi. In individual Gundersen as he reached 12 right off the bat his first four World Cup points, which placed him on the 31st place in the World Cup overall standings of the 1987/88 season. At the beginning of the 1988/89 season in Saalfelden sea as he reached 11, a good placement before he won in Oslo than 10 in March 1989 his first top- 10 ranking. Three weeks later he missed fourth in Thunder Bay his first World Cup podium in short supply and was 19th at the end of the World Cup overall standings.
In the following season, Guillaume came again at three World Cups in Saalfelden, Štrbské Pleso and Lahti and won a total of seven World Cup points, with which he again reached in the overall World Cup a good 22 place. In the 1990/91 World Cup season, he started only in Oslo and therefore could only win a point for the overall World Cup standings. Simultaneously he started in B- World Cup, and reached it with 14 points Rank 23 overall.
In January 1992, he returned to Murau in the World Cup squad and missed a podium in fourth again just barely. At the Olympic Winter Games in Albertville in 1992 Guillaume won behind his compatriot Fabrice Guy and before the Austrian Klaus Sulzenbacher the silver medal in singles. Together with Francis Reppelin and Fabrice Guy, he missed the team competition in fourth place barely a medal. Ten days after the Games he finished ninth in the individual Gundersen 15 km Lahti. At season's end, he was third in Oslo for the first time in a World Cup on the podium. In the season overall standings with 42 points as he reached for the first time a seventh place in the top ten.
At the beginning of the season 1992/93 Guillaume was 11 in Courchevel, before he moved to the B- World Cup again. There he was able to reach the end of season in Hinterzarten second place and in Chaux -Neuve win a week later his first competition. From December 1993 he served again for the World Cup squad and was with the eighth place in St. Moritz to fight again in the top ten. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer he could after a ninth place in the individual with the team ranked six in the team competition.
After an extended break from competition Guillaume came in January 1995 in Schwarzach im Pongau back in the B World Cup and was second in right away on the podium again. A month later he started in Falun, Oslo and Bad Goisern again in the World Cup, but missed with mediocre finishes, although points but brought him no, top position, the renewed plunge into the world top. Surprisingly, he was able to win in March at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1995 in Thunder Bay behind Norwegian Fred Børre Lundberg and the Finns Jari Mantila the bronze medal in singles.
At the start of the World Cup season 1995/96 in St. Moritz and Schonach he was again able to win points before him in Liberec scored his first World Cup victory of career. Also in Seefeld in Tirol, he stood in second on the podium again. After another top- 10 finishes he reached with 799 points at the end of the season in sixth place his best position in the standings since the beginning of his career.
Also in the 1996/97 season, he raced from tenth in Rovaniemi and 15 in Hakuba, but was unable to match the performance of the preseason despite performance improvements in the following World Cup. In the end it was only enough to rank 21st overall. In January 1998, he came back with a second place in Schonach top of the world. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano he won jointly with Nicolas Bal, Ludovic Roux and Fabrice Guy in the team competition bronze medal. In single- handed it as early as 1994, only to ninth. After Guillaume at the end of the season once again reached the second place in the sprint in Oslo, he repeated the result of the 1995/96 season and was again sixth in the overall standings.
In the 1998/99 season Guillaume started only in January 1999 with a 14th place in the individual of Liberec and a 12th place in the sprint of St. Moritz. Shortly thereafter, he started at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 in Ramsau am Dachstein. According to a ninth place in the individual he missed in fourth with the team a medal in the team competition. In the sprint, it was enough for Guillaume only to rank 28 After he was able to win any of the top places more in Lahti, he finished the season in 30th place overall.
After Guillaume clearly won World Cup points at the start of the World Cup season 1999/ 00 in Vuokatti, Steamboat Springs and Upper Wiesenthal, he missed in Reit im Winkl first time in years the points. Also in Schonach, in Val di Fiemme and in Breitenwang he missed the World Cup points clear. Although he was able to win as 29 points again in Liberec, he could no longer hold his achievements constant and also landed mostly on middle seats. In the end, it was enough for him just to rank 35 overall. Also the start of the World Cup season 2000/ 01 he could no longer carry on a grand achievements and changed in January 2001, then again in the B World Cup. Here Guillaume could as each runner reach the podium in Val di Fiemme, in Klingenthal and in Liberec. Back in the World Cup in February 2001, he was ninth in Liberec.
In the Nordic World Ski Championships 2001 in Lahti Guillaume disappointed with rank 39 in singles and ranked 31 in the sprint. Even with the team he could only reach ninth. By the end of the season, he managed to reach the points only in Sapporo and so came not as the previous year on the 35th place overall out. At the start of the World Cup season 2000/ 01, he missed again clearly the points before he again started in January 2002 in B- World Cup, but no more again found here as well to form. On 19 January 2002, he played in Saalfelden his last international race and finished thereafter his international career.
Since 1999 Chairman of the Association Guillaume La Sapaudia, a club that brings together athletes with disabilities. In addition, he is involved in the blood and bone marrow donation.