The record of 15 medals at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018 will not have been equaled in Beijing. France will therefore leave China with 14 medals, including five gold. The curtain falls this Sunday on the 2022 Olympics.
This Sunday morning the French alpine ski team was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the mixed team parallel event, beaten by Norway. Alexis Pinturault, Mathieu Faivre, Tessa Worley and Coralie Frasse-Sombet will therefore not be on the podium in the last alpine skiing event of the Games, which Alexis Pinturault will leave without a medal for the first time in his career. No surprise either during the 30 km of cross-country skiing, the last event of this Olympic fortnight: Delphine Claudel ranked 7th.
Quentin Fillon Maillet, King of Games
The French delegation therefore remains at 14 medals in total, including a third for Quentin Fillon Maillet alone, France’s flag bearer at the closing ceremony of the Games. The biathlete collected five charms, including two gold, in six races. A feat that no Frenchman had ever achieved in the same Winter Olympics. With its five podiums, plus the title of Justine Braisaz-Bouchet in mass-start and the silver of Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet in individual, the biathlon is even worth half of the 14 medals of the French camp.
And the Blues can console themselves with so many gold medals since to those of Fillon Maillet and Braisaz-Bouchet, are added Clément Noël, in slalom, and the duo Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, in ice dancing. Since the first edition of the Winter Olympics in 1924 in Chamonix, France won a total of 138 medalsincluding 41 in gold, 42 in silver and 55 in bronze.
The 14 French medals
Biathlon
- 15 km women: silver -Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet
- 20 km men: gold – Quentin Fillon Maillet
- Mass-start women: gold – Justine Braisaz-Bouchet
- Pursuit men: gold – Quentin Fillon Maillet
- Men’s relay: silver – Fabien Claude, Simon Desthieux, Quentin Fillon Maillet, Emilien Jacquelin
- Mixed relay: silver – Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet, Julia Simon, Quentin Fillon Maillet, Emilien Jacquelin
- Sprint men: silver – Quentin Fillon Maillet
freestyle
- Big Air women: silver – Tess Ledeux
Figure skating
- Ice Dance: Gold – Gabriella Papadakis, Guillaume Cizeron
Alpine skiing
- Men’s Downhill: Silver -Johan Clarey
- Men’s slalom: gold – Clément Noël
- Men’s giant slalom: bronze – Mathieu Faivre
cross-country skiing
- Men’s relay: bronze – Richard Jouve, Hugo Lapalus, Maurice Manificat, Clément Parisse
Snowboard
- Women’s Snowboardcross: Silver – Chloé Trespeuch