Vincent Defrasne

Vincent DeFrasne ( born March 9, 1977 in Pontarlier ) is a former French biathlete and Olympic champion in biathlon.

In the season 1999/ 00 Vincent DeFrasne made ​​its appearance for the first time in the Biathlon World Cup. His best World Cup placing it reached 2005/ 06 (6th place ), his first World Cup victory was on January 7, 2006, in the sprint race in Oberhof. Where major events Vincent DeFrasne was focused chiefly successful with French squadrons. In the Biathlon World Championships 2001 in Pokljuka he also won gold at the World Championships and 2004 in Oberhof bronze at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City bronze.

His greatest achievement is winning the gold medal in the pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. In the final sprint to DeFrasne was able to beat the favored defending champion Ole Einar Bjørndalen. With the French squadron, he won the bronze medal also. In the Biathlon World Championships 2007 in Antholz DeFrasne won the silver medal in the mixed relay and bronze in the pursuit. Two years later he won the gold medal in the mixed relay at the Biathlon World Championships 2009 in South Korean Pyeongchang.

Professional DeFrasne is employed by the French army and still lives in his birthplace Pontarlier. His hobby is next to the sports, the music. He is married and has a son.

Biathlon World Cup rankings

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

France Winter Olympic Games Biathlon World Championships 2004 Biathlon World Championships 2006 2005–06 Biathlon World Cup 2007–08 Biathlon World Cup Oberhof, Germany Pyeongchang County International Biathlon Union List of Olympic medalists in biathlon Martin Fourcade Kalevi Huuskonen Finland Ivar Nordkild Jon Istad Ragnar Tveiten Rinnat Safin Nikolay Kruglov Simo Halonen Juhani Suutarinen Heikki Ikola Aleksandr Yelizarov Manfred Beer Frank Ullrich Klaus Siebert Mathias Jung Yuri Kashkarov Frank Luck Birk Anders Pieralberto Carrara Wilfried Pallhuber Johann Passler Andreas Zingerle Italy Mark Kirchner Fritz Fischer (biathlete) Sven Fischer Peter Sendel Sergey Rozhkov Gilles Marguet Julien Robert Michael Greis Halvard Hanevold Stian Eckhoff Emil Hegle Svendsen Lars Berger Alexander Os Irina Malgina Sabrina Buchholz Magdalena Neuner Marie-Laure Brunet Simon Fourcade Simon Schempp Arnd Peiffer Tora Berger Tomasz Sikora Alexey Volkov (biathlete)
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