France has 87 athletes in its ranks who will defend its colors at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, twenty-one less than four years ago in Pyeongchang (South Korea). The French athletes will try to do better than the fifteen medals gleaned during the last Winter Olympics, in 2018. Here is the complete list of the 87 French athletes involved.
They are 87 to have flown to Beijing. As many sportsmen who represent the tricolor colors during the Winter Olympics 2022 (4 – 20 February). This is twenty-one less than in Pyeongchang (South Korea) four years ago, when the 108 French athletes won fifteen medals (as in 2014, record equaled), including five in gold, four in silver and six in bronze.
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This list unsurprisingly includes the main chances of French medals, such as Alexis Pinturault, Mathieu Faivre, Clément Noël and Tessa Worley in alpine skiing, Quentin Fillon Maillet and Émilien Jacquelin in biathlon, Perrine Laffont in mogul skiing, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron in ice dancing, Tess Ledeux in slopestyle, the French men’s relay in cross-country skiing, Bastien Midol in skicross and Chloé Trespeuch in snowboardcross.
Here is the list of the selected by discipline.
Biathlon (12)
Women: Anaïs Bescond, Paula Botet, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, Chloé Chevalier, Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet, Julia Simon
Men: Fabien Claude, Simon Desthieux, Quentin Fillon Maillet, Antonin Guigonnat, Emilien Jacquelin, Eric Perrot
Bobsleigh (8)
Women: Margot Boch (Monobob, two-man bob), Carla Senechal (two-man bob), Sandie Clair (Substitute/two-man bob)
Men: Dorian Hauterville (Bob at two and at four), Romain Heinrich (Bob at two and at four), Jérôme Laporal (Bob at four), Lionel Lefebvre (Bob at four), Thomas Delmestre (Substitute/Bob at four)
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Nordic combined (5)
Mattéo Baud, Gael Blondeau, Antoine Gerard, Laurent Mühlethaler, Edgar Vallet
Figure skating (4)
Ice dancing: Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron
Men: Kevin Aymoz, Adam Siao Him Fa
Ski jumping (2)
Women: Julia Clair, Josephine Pagnier
Short-track (4)
Women: Gwendoline Daudet, Tifany Huot Marchand
Men: Quentin Fercoq, Sebastien Lepape
Alpine skiing (12) + 5 names to come
Women: Camille Cerutti, Coralie Frasse-Sombet, Laura Gauché, Tiffany Gauthier, Romane Miradoli, Nastasia Noens, Tessa Worley, Clara Direz
Men: Matthieu Bailet, Johan Clarey, Mathieu Faivre, Clément Noël, Alexis Pinturault, Nils Allègre, Blaise Gienzendanner, Thibaut Favrot, Cyprien Sarrazin
Cross-country skiing (13)
Women: Coralie Bentz, Delphine Claudel, Flora Dolci, Mélissa Gal, Léna Quintin
Men: Adrien Backscheider, Lucas Chanavat, Renaud Jay, Richard Jouve, Hugo Lapalus, Jules Lapierre, Maurice Manificat, Clément Parisse
Ski freestyle (13)
Women: Camille Cabrol (Moguls), Perrine Laffont (Moguls), Jade Grillet-Aubert (Skicross), Alizée Baron (Skicross), Tess Ledeux (Slopestyle and Big air)
Men: Benjamin Cavet (Moguls), Sacha Theocharis (Moguls), Jean-Frédéric Chapuis (Skicross), Bastien Midol (Skicross), François Place (Skicross), Térence Tchiknavorian (Skicross), Kevin Rolland (Halfpipe), Antoine Adelisse (Slopestyle and Big air)
Snowboard (9)
Women: Lucile Lefevre (Slopestyle and Big air), Julia Pereira de Sousa Mabileau (Snowboardcross), Manon Petit-Lenoir (Snowboardcross), Alexia Queyrel (Snowboardcross), Chloé Trespeuch (Snowboardcross)
Men: Loan Bozzolo (Snowboardcross), Léo Le Blé Jaques (Snowboardcross), Merlin Surget (Snowboardcross), Liam Tourki (Halfpipe)
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