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Anaïs Bescond (born 15 May 1987) is a retired French
Anaïs Bescond, triple médaillée olympique, met un terme à sa carrière
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''13 victories''
biathlete
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...
, olympic champion and world champion. She is also a non-commissioned officer.
Career
Bescond was born inAunay-sur-Odon
Aunay-sur-Odon (, literally ''Aunay on Odon'') is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Monts d'Aunay.
The inhabitants of the commun ...
. She moved to Morbier, in the Jura region, with her family and began skiing. She competed at the Biathlon World Championships 2011, and won a silver medal in the relay with the French team, a result repeated at the Biathlon World Championships 2012.
She won her first victory on the World Cup biathlon sprint at Antholz-Anterselva, played on 16 January 2014.
Bescond competed in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics for France. Her best performance was two 5th places in the individual and sprint.
At the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...
, she finished at the 3rd place in the pursuit, claimed gold with the French Team in the mixed relay and took bronze in the relay
A relay
Electromechanical relay schematic showing a control coil, four pairs of normally open and one pair of normally closed contacts
An automotive-style miniature relay with the dust cover taken off
A relay is an electrically operated switch ...
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She announced her retirement after the 2021/22 season./ref>
Biathlon results
Olympic Games
''3 medals (1 gold, 2 bronze)''World Championships
''8 medals (1 gold, 6 silver, 1 bronze)'' :''*The single mixed relay was added as an event in 2019.''World Cup
;World Cup rankings ;Individual victories ''1 victory (1 Sp)'' ;Relay victories
''13 victories''
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* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bescond, Anais 1987 births Living people French female biathletes Sportspeople from Calvados (department) Biathlon World Championships medalists Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics Biathletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for France Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics Olympic medalists in biathlon Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic bronze medalists for France 21st-century French women