FILLON MAILLET. New medal for Quentin Fillon Maillet at the Beijing 2022 Olympics. With five Olympic charms, including two in gold, in five races, the Frenchman enters the history of biathlon and can still aim for a new medal in these Winter Olympics with the mass start this Friday, February 18.
Five Olympic medals in five races, Quentin Fillon Maillet could not have dreamed of better. The Frenchman is making history in biathlon and the Winter Olympics. With two Olympic titles (individual men on Tuesday February 8 and the men’s pursuit on Sunday February 13) and three silver medals (mixed relay on Saturday February 5 and the men’s sprint on Saturday February 12), the last of which obtained on Tuesday February 15 in men’s relay with Fabien Claude, Emilien Jacquelin and Simon Desthieux, Quentin Fillon Maillet can dream of a Grand Slam of medals. A performance never before achieved at the Olympic Games, he who is now the only athlete to win five medals in a single Olympiad. He can even win a sixth.
There is still a race for the Frenchman in these 2022 Olympics. This Friday February 18 from 10:00 a.m. (if the time of the event is not advanced), Quentin Fillon Maillet once again has the opportunity to write his story with the mass start men. At the last Biathlon World Championships, the double Olympic champion finished in 3rd place behind the Norwegians Sturla Holm Lægreid and Johannes Dale. 2nd in the specialty this season in the World Cup behind the German Benedikt Doll, the Habs hope to close in the queen event of biathlon, these Olympics in style.
Biography of Quentin Fillon Maillet. Quentin Fillon Maillet, 29 years old, was born on August 16, 1992 in Champagnole, a town located in the Jura department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. His family gave him a taste for outdoor sports and more particularly skiing. The young Quentin put on his first skis at the age of 4 before starting biathlon competitions ten years later, in 2006, at the age of 14.
It was only six years later, during the 2012-2013 season, that the Frenchman made his debut on the IBU Cup circuit, the second level in the world for biathlon, before winning his first world medal at the junior world championships in January. , in the relay, then to be crowned during the mixed relay event of the European Championships. He made his debut in the World Cup in 2013-2014, before being selected as a substitute for the Sochi Olympics in 2014. The Jura player finished on the podium for the first time the following season, during a mass- start.
Fully integrated into the world circuit, Quentin Fillon-Maillet is gaining momentum, multiplying the podiums and medals at the World Championships. For his first Olympic Games as a holder, in Pyeongchang in 2018, the Frenchman disappointed and finished 48th in the sprint, 44th in the pursuit and 29th in the mass start. But the following season, he reached a milestone and monopolized the top 10 and podiums in the World Cup, with several individual successes, even if a world title still eluded him.
Proof of his consistency, Quentin Fillon-Maillet has finished the last three seasons in the World Cup in 3rd place in the general classification, won each time by the Norwegian star Johannes Thingnes Boe. Before the start of the Beijing Olympics, the Jura player is currently ranked second in the World Cup, behind his compatriot Emilien Jacquelin.
Present in the World Cup since the 2013-2014 season, Quentin Fillon-Maillet has climbed the podium 67 times, including 40 times individually for 10 victories (including two in 2021-2022), 15 second places and 15 third places. He has finished the last three World Cup seasons in 3rd place overall. The French biathlete won a gold medal in the mixed relay in 2013 at the European championships, but above all ten medals in the world championships, including two gold, in the mixed relay (2016) and in the relay (2020). Left empty-handed from the Pyeongchang Olympics in 2018, Quentin Fillon Maillet has already won two medals at the Beijing Olympics with silver in the mixed relay and especially gold in the individual.
Like all biathletes, Quentin Fillon-Maillet is rewarded according to his performance on skis. For example, in the 2019-2020 season during which he finished in 3rd place in the general classification, the Jura player pocketed 218,200 euros thanks to the prize money set up by the international biathlon federation. Only Johannes Boe and Martin Fourcade, now retired, had earned more than the native of Champagnole.
Quentin Fillon-Maillet has had a companion for several years, named Lydie. She fought against cancer between 2016 and 2018, a fight that the French biathlete had chosen to make public with the objective of “raising awareness”. The couple currently have no children.