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| Vincent Vittoz | |||||||||||||||
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| Country |  France | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 July 1975 Annecy, France | ||||||||||||||
| Ski club | Défense EMHM La Clusaz | ||||||||||||||
| World Cup career | |||||||||||||||
| Seasons | 16 – (1996–2011) | ||||||||||||||
| Indiv. starts | 215 | ||||||||||||||
| Indiv. podiums | 26 | ||||||||||||||
| Indiv. wins | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Team starts | 37 | ||||||||||||||
| Team podiums | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| Team wins | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Overall titles | 0 – (2nd in 2005) | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline titles | 0 | ||||||||||||||
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Vincent Vittoz (born 17 July 1975 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie) is a French former cross-country skier, non-commissioned officer[1] and coach.[2] He grew up in the town of La Clusaz in the Northern French Alps and has been competing since 1982. He made his FIS Cross-Country World Cup debut in January 1996 in Nové Město na Moravě, finishing 22nd in a 15 km classical race.[3] He won a gold medal in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf. As of 2018 Vittoz is the only French cross-country skiing world champion.[3]
Vittoz's best overall team finish at the Winter Olympics was a fourth place in the 4 × 10 km relay events in Turin in the 2006 and in Vancouver in 2010. His best individual finish in Turin was sixth in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit in. He finished fifth in the 15 km free event in Vancouver. He competed in four Olympic Games in total, in 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010.[3]
Vittoz won seven World Cup individual events and one World Cup team event. He was ranked second in the overall classification of the 2005 World Cup.
Vittoz served as an ambassador for Annecy's bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics.[4]
He retired from competition at the end of the 2010-11 season, taking up a position as coach of the French national under-23 cross-country ski team in the spring of 2011.[2] Seven years later, he was appointed as the coach of the French national biathlon team.[5]
- ^ Vittoz, Vincent, Équipe de France Militaire de Ski 2011
- ^ a b Prato, Benoît (16 August 2011). "Vincent Vittoz : "À eux de construire leur histoire"" [Vincent Vittoz: "It's up to them to build their story"]. Le Dauphiné libéré (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ a b c Prato, Benoît (10 December 2018). "Smirnov, larmes, stand de tir : les premières fois de Vincent Vittoz" [Smirnov, tears, shooting range: the first times of Vincent Vittoz]. Le Dauphiné libéré (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Vincent Vittoz : " J'ai cherché à donner mon meilleur "" [Vincent Vittoz: "I tried to give my best"]. French National Olympic and Sports Committee (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ Prato, Benoît (14 June 2018). "Vincent Vittoz : "Coacher Martin Fourcade est une belle opportunité"" [Vincent Vittoz: "To coach Martin Fourcade is a great opportunity"]. Le Dauphiné libéré (in French). Retrieved 26 January 2019.