Simon Fourcade

In sports, as in any other sphere of life, continuity is also developed, the dynasties of Semerenko, Bjoerndalen, Berger are well known. Simon Fourcade is a brilliant representative of the Fourcade family, who won a lot of awards in biathlon, the first of the brothers who made him pronounce this surname with a breath.

Simon Fourcade was born in the south of France in Perpignan in April 1984 in the family of a speech therapist and tour guide. When asked about a dark skin tone, he answers that the ancestors are Spaniards, and not Algerians, as many believe.

As a child, Simon did a lot of things - judo, figure skating, hockey, swimming, cycling. Even when I got to the ski club, I didn’t think that biathlon would go so deeply into his life, and I just enjoyed skiing.

This continued until the age of 14, when friends from the sports school left for the national championship, and Simon did not pass the selection, so he stayed at home. The young man understood: to achieve a result, it is necessary to make more efforts than those that are now. Simon went to the town of Villars de Lens, famous not only for its ski resort, but also for its sports school, and the coach Thierry Dusser who worked there.

The dedication with which Fourcade trained impressed the coaching staff, the fame of the successor of Raphael Poiret was fixed for the young athlete. Moreover, Simon has become an icon for Martin's younger brother.

Fourcade's serious sports biography started in the 2003-2004 season: Simon overcame the qualifying sieve in the World Cup for participation in the Oslo stage. By this time, Simon already had silver and gold at the junior world championships. In total, Simon won 4 gold and silver medals in the junior category. By the way, the younger brother of Simon Fourcade cannot boast of such achievements at the beginning of his career.

However, Simon still does not have a single personal award of the highest dignity from adult competitions. For the first time, Fourcade won the podium in 2006, at the World Championships, then the biathlete won a bronze medal in the mixed relay. A year later, in Finland, at the next stage of the World Cup, there was already a silver medal in the individual race.

In 2006, at the Olympic Games in Italy, Simon was in 31st place in the individual race. At the 2007 world championship, Fourcade entered the top ten three times, and a year later he became fourth twice and received an award for third place in the mixed relay at the Cup stage in South Korea.

Luck smiled at Simon in the relay race at the 2009 world championship: Fourcade won the national team championship for the first time, and also won another silver and two bronze medals at the World Cup.

In addition, the biathlete twice won the competition in memory of Vitaly Fatyanov, held in Russia. The athlete owns 3 gold medals at the 2008 Summer Biathlon World Championship.

Let for a short period, but Simon in the 2009-2010 season managed to rise to the top line of the overall standings of the World Cup. The next year, the path to the medals was blocked by a fall from a ladder and a serious injury.

Martin's silver medal and a place outside the top ten for Simon at the Vancouver Olympics practically pitted the brothers. It took a year and a half before Fourcade senior recognized the superiority of the younger.

In the 2011-2012 season, Fourcade Sr. won gold in the relay, five silver and three bronze medals at the World Cup stages. Then the Frenchman got the small Crystal Globe in the individual standings, two silver medals at the World Championship, and took fifth place in the overall standings of the World Cup.

The best in his career, as the biathlete emphasizes, is considered the winter of 2012-2013, since then Fourcade returned to the race after surgery and missing the start of the competition. The season was marked by two gold medals in relay races, a silver medal in the pursuit at the World Cup, and a silver medal at the World Championship held in the Czech Republic.

In the 2013-2014 season, the athlete won the highest step of the podium in Antholz (Italy), again in the relay. By the end of 2014, Simon repeated his success in Östersund, Sweden. In the same season, a medal for the third place from the world championship, bronze and silver from the cup stages, all in the same relay, were added to the biathlete's piggy bank.

In the new season, the athlete stopped just one step away from the podium at the World Cup and World Championships - in the mass start, individual race, in the sprint. There is no equal to the sergeant of the French army Simon Fourcade at the world military championships. The athlete has five gold, three silver and two bronze medals.

At the Fatyanov Memorial in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, held in 2011, Simon met the amateur biathlete Anastasia Spirina. As Simon said in an interview, one glance was enough to understand that Nastya is his man. The girl flew to her lover in France, Simon occasionally visited Kamchatka. But the distance of thousands of kilometers did the trick, and the couple broke up.

In 2012, Simon Fourcade starred in a glamorous photo shoot with the famous Austrian photographer Christian Meislinger. Togo was impressed by the excellent physical condition of the athlete (Simon's height is 174 cm, weight - 66 kg). The photos, published by the handsome Frenchman on the Facebook page, attracted the attention of not only winter sports fans. The army of fans also increased after filming for the Dievx Dv Stade 2017 calendar; Fourcade posted a photo of them on Instagram.

In May 2017, Simon Fourcade became a father, the athlete's girlfriend Clemence Tulz gave birth to his son Adam. The birth of a child changed Simon: by his own admission, the perfectionist Fourcade learned to switch, whereas before he was constantly analyzing something, and, moreover, became more disciplined.

The Frenchman is still interested in football, calls himself a fan of the Spanish club Barcelona, ​​as he was born near Catalonia.

In the fall of 2017, Simon said that the Olympics in Pyeongchang are the last for him, but he is not thinking about retirement yet and, perhaps, will come to the 2021 world championship in Russia.

The current season 2017-2018 is not going well for a member of the French national team. At the World Championships in Austria, Simon was content with just an 85th position in the sprint. This was followed by places in the sixth and seventh ten at the French and Austrian stages of the World Cup.

The best indicator so far remains ninth place at the World Cup in the pursuit race and 33rd in the overall standings. With these results in mind, Fourcade is considering returning to the IBU Cup, although he says it won't be easy.

2006 - champion and silver medalist of the World War Games 2008 - three-time world champion in summer biathlon 2008 - two-time champion, silver medalist at the World War Games 2009 - world champion in the mixed relay (as part of the French national team) 2012 - two-time silver medalist at the world championship (in individual race and relay) 2013 - silver medalist of the World Championship (in relay) 2014 - silver medalist of the World War Games 2015 - two-time champion of the World War Games 2015 - bronze medalist of the World Championship (in relay)

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