Raphaël Poirée
Poirée in Antholz-Anterselva in 2006
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Raphaël Poirée |
| Born |
9 August 1974 Rives, France |
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Professional information | |
| Sport | Biathlon |
| Club | Vercors Ski De Fond |
| Skis | Rossignol |
| World Cup debut | 9 March 1995 |
| Retired | 11 March 2007 |
| Olympic Games | |
| Teams | 3 (1998, 2002, 2006) |
| Medals | 3 (0 gold) |
| World Championships | |
| Teams | 12 (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007) |
| Medals | 18 (8 gold) |
| World Cup | |
| Seasons | 13 (1994/95–2006/07) |
| Individual victories | 44 |
| All victories | 46 |
| Individual podiums | 103 |
| All podiums | 117 |
| Overall titles | 4 (1999−00, 2000−01, 2001−02, 2003−04) |
| Discipline titles |
10: 2 Individual (2003−04, 2006–07); 1 Sprint (2003−04); 4 Pursuit (1998−99, 2000−01, 2001−02, 2003−04); 3 Mass start (1999−00, 2003−04, 2004–05) |
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Raphaël Poirée (born 9 August 1974) is a retired French biathlete who was active from 1995 to 2007. With his 44 World Cup victories and several World Championship medals he ranks among the most successful biathletes ever.
Poirée was born in Rives, Isère in France and like the rest of his colleagues in the French biathlon and cross-country skiing team, was a sport soldier.
Poirée has four IBU World Cup titles (1999−00, 2000−01, 2001−02 and 2003−04). He has also come second once, in 2005−06 and third once, in the 2004−05 season. Poirée has had 103 World Cup podium finishes, 44 in first place, 39 in second, and has come third 20 times. In the Winter Olympics, Poiree has one silver and two bronze medals. At the World Championships however, he has seven gold medals, three silver and seven bronze.
Raphaël Poirée was one of the best mass start biathletes of his time, with 9 1st places, 4 2nd places, and 3 3rd places in his World Cup career, second only to Ole Einar Bjørndalen who got 10 1st places, 5 2nd places and 4 3rd places in the same time frame. Poirée also won 4 out of the 7 World Championship mass start races he took part in.
Poirée also had five victories at the Holmenkollen ski festival biathlon competition with three mass starts (2000, 2002, and 2004), one pursuit (2004) and one individual (2007).
After winning the gold medal at the World Championships in Antholz in 2007, Poiree announced the end of his career after that World Cup season. He eventually chose to retire after the Holmenkollen World Cup meet (i.e. before the season's last WC meet, in Khanty-Mansyisk in Russia the week after); his last competition was the Mass start race on Sunday 11 March, where he finished in second place after a cm-close last sprint to the finish line against his long-time competitor Ole Einar Bjørndalen of Norway.
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