Anthony Chalençon (born 13 August 1990) is a French male visually impaired cross-country skier and

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 ti ...

who also formerly competed as an

alpine skier Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether ...

. He switched from alpine skiing to take up

Paralympic Nordic skiing Paralympic Nordic skiing is a Winter Paralympics sport consisting of Paralympic biathlon, biathlon and Paralympic cross-country skiing, cross-country skiing. The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee, with its subcommittee for ...

after a disastrous start to his Paralympic career as an alpine skier in 2010. Anthony Chalençon clinched his first Paralympic medals after clinching a bronze medal in the 15km visually impaired biathlon event and gold in the Open Relay during the

2018 Winter Paralympics The 2018 Winter Paralympics (), the 12th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the Internation ...

Career

Anthony Chalençon took up Para Nordic skiing in late 2011. With Benjamin Daviet and Thomas Clarion he won two world titles in the relay in 2015 and 2017. He competed for France at the 2018 Winter Paralympics. He claimed his first Paralympic medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, which was a bronze in the biathlon event. He claimed his first Paralympic gold medal during the

after winning the men's 4 x 2.5 km relay open team event for

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along with other members including Benjamin Daviet and Thomas Clarion.

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* * * * 1990 births Living people French male alpine skiers French male biathletes French male cross-country skiers Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Paralympic alpine skiers for France Paralympic biathletes for France Paralympic cross-country skiers for France Paralympic gold medalists for France Paralympic bronze medalists for France Medalists at the 2018 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 2022 Winter Paralympics French blind people Visually impaired-category Paralympic competitors People from Évian-les-Bains Université Savoie Mont Blanc alumni Skiers from Haute-Savoie Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing Paralympic medalists in biathlon Cross-country skiers at the 2022 Winter Paralympics 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-biathlon-bio-stub