Vincent Defrasne is a French biathlete who retired this year (only one more of these after this one, I promise!).  I can find nine podium finishes throughout his career, including a gold at the Turin Olympics (12.5km pursuit) and a bronze at the 2007 World Biathlon Championships.  In addition to these individual accomplishments, he’s been a part of numerous medal winning French relay teams.
A pretty classic looking career, right there. Â His career seemed to peak at a good time, coinciding with the 2006 Turin Olympics. Â When we break things down by event we get the following:
That’s a pretty consistent (though fairly small) preference for the 15km mass start event. Â Although, now that I think about it, I haven’t made any correction here (or in any of the other biathlon posts) for the inevitable compression of the percent back measure in mass start races. Â So I suppose it’s possible that Defrasne’s actually doing about the same, but that it’s somewhat easier to finish near the leaders in a mass start race. Â Something to work on in the future…
How about shooting?
Some ups and downs, but generally Defrasne improved his shooting over the course of his career. Â Once again, the dashed lines are the shooting performances of top ten finishers for each season. Â Averaged over his entire career, I have him shooting 82.7% overall, 86.1% prone and 79.3% standing. Â How does that stack up against everyone else?
Definitely better than average, but not spectacular.
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