Anne Briand (born 2 June 1968, in

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). Is a former

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. She belonged to the world's best biathletes in the early 1990s. At the 1992 Olympics in

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, the first time this competition was introduced at the olympic level she won a gold medal with the French relay team. In 1995 she won the world title in the sprint event and also won the overall

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