France at the 2002 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	FRA
Nocname:	French National Olympic and Sports Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	2002
Website:
Location:	Salt Lake City
Competitors:	114 (87 men, 27 women)
Sports:	15
Flagbearer:	Carole Montillet (alpine skiing)
Rank:	6
Gold:	4
Silver:	5
Bronze:	2
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

France competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's slalom
			Women's downhill
			Ice dancing
			Women's parallel giant slalom
			Men's slalom
			Women's slalom
			Men's 12.5 km pursuit
			Women's parallel giant slalom
			Women's halfpipe
			Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay
			Men's moguls

Alpine skiing

See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Antoine Dénériaz	Downhill			1:40.74	12
Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin				1:40.58	11
Sébastien Fournier-Bidoz				1:40.39	10
Claude Crétier				1:39.96	5
Claude Crétier	Super-G			DNF	-
Christophe Saioni				1:24.28	20
Sébastien Fournier-Bidoz				1:23.82	15
Vincent Millet	Giant Slalom	1:14.03	DNF	DNF	-
Joël Chenal		1:13.76	1:13.32	2:27.08	21
Frédéric Covili		1:13.70	1:11.95	2:25.65	15
Pierrick Bourgeat	Slalom	50.54	DNF	DNF	-
Sébastien Amiez		50.16	51.66	1:41.82
Jean-Pierre Vidal		48.01	53.05	1:41.06

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Antoine Dénériaz	1:41.91	51.82	58.24	3:31.97	21
Gaëtan Llorach	1:40.56	DNF	-	DNF	-

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Ingrid Jacquemod	Downhill			1:42.70	23
Mélanie Suchet				1:41.15	15
Carole Montillet-Carles				1:39.56
Ingrid Jacquemod	Super-G			1:16.17	22
Mélanie Suchet				1:14.83	10
Carole Montillet-Carles				1:14.28	7
Laure Pequegnot	Giant Slalom	1:19.99	1:19.26	2:39.25	33
Christel Pascal-Saioni		1:18.92	1:17.48	2:36.40	25
Carole Montillet-Carles		1:18.14	1:16.39	2:34.53	18
Christel Pascal-Saioni	Slalom	DNF	-	DNF	-
Vanessa Vidal		53.70	54.41	1:48.11	7
Laure Pequegnot		52.32	53.85	1:46.17

Biathlon

See main article: Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Gilles Marguet	4	28:20.1	66
	Julien Robert	2	27:05.1	35
	Vincent Defrasne	2	26:36.7	21
	Raphaël Poirée	2	25:56.9	9
12.5 km pursuit ^2	Julien Robert	4	36:55.4	39
	Vincent Defrasne	3	34:33.6	18
	Raphaël Poirée	1	33:17.6

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
20 km	Ferréol Cannard	56:32.9	5	1'01:32.9	77
	Julien Robert	54:54.0	3	57:54.0	54
	Vincent Defrasne	53:20.3	3	56:20.3	37
	Raphaël Poirée	50:52.9	2	52:52.9	10

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ^1	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Delphyne Heymann-Burlet	1	22:37.7	23
	Corinne Niogret	0	21:50.3	9
	Sandrine Bailly	1	21:35.7	7
	Florence Baverel-Robert	0	21:27.9	5
10 km pursuit ^4	Delphyne Heymann-Burlet	3	34:48.4	33
	Corinne Niogret	3	34:35.3	27
	Sandrine Bailly	4	32:57.2	17
	Florence Baverel-Robert	3	32:39.8	14

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ^3	Rank
15 km	Delphyne Heymann-Burlet	49:19.2	2	51:19.2	26
	Corinne Niogret	49:49.6	1	50:49.6	21
	Sylvie Becaert	48:09.0	2	50:09.0	16
	Florence Baverel-Robert	47:10.2	2	49:10.2	11

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

⁴ Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
FRA-1	Bruno Mingeon Éric Le Chanony Christophe Fouquet Alexandre Arbez	Four-man	46.92	8	46.86	7	47.25	5	47.53	5	3:08.56	5
FRA-2	Bruno Thomas Michel André Thibault Giroud Philippe Paviot	Four-man	46.88	6	47.03	12	47.47	11	47.82	13	3:09.20	10

Cross-country skiing

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

MenPursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit^1
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Emmanuel Jonnier	29:21.2	60	did not advance
Christophe Perrillat-Collomb	28:13.5	46 Q	28:11.9	56
Alexandre Rousselet	27:28.1	29 Q	25:33.9	35
Vincent Vittoz	27:05.2	21 Q	24:19.8	13

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
30 km F	Christophe Perrillat-Collomb	DNF	-
	Alexandre Rousselet	1'18:01.3	47
	Vincent Vittoz	1'13:21.7	11
	Emmanuel Jonnier	1'13:15.1	10

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle4 × 10 km relay

WomenPursuit

Athlete	5 km C		5 km F pursuit^2
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Annick Vaxelaire-Pierrel	14:18.6	40 Q	13:35.9	37
Karine Philippot	14:12.9	35 Q	13:12.8	19
Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb Storti	14:06.0	30 Q	13:29.7	31

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Aurélie Perrillat-Collomb Storti	30:00.2	17
15 km F	Annick Vaxelaire-Pierrel	42:26.7	24
	Karine Philippot	40:38.6	8

² Starting delay based on 5 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Curling

See main article: Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's competition

Group stage

Top four teams advanced to semi-finals.

Country	Skip	W	L
Canada	Kevin Martin	8	1
Norway	Pål Trulsen	7	2
Switzerland	Andreas Schwaller	6	3
Sweden	Peja Lindholm	6	3
Finland	Markku Uusipaavalniemi	5	4
Germany	Sebastian Stock	4	5
Denmark	Ulrik Schmidt	3	6
Great Britain	Hammy McMillan	3	6
United States	Tim Somerville	3	6
France 10th	Dominique Dupont-Roc	0	9

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Contestants

Figure skating

See main article: Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Brian Joubert	20.5	17	12	14
Frédéric Dambier	16.5	11	11	11

Women

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Vanessa Gusmeroli	22.0	10	17	16
Laëtitia Hubert	22.0	14	15	15

Ice Dancing

Athletes	Points	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	Rank
Isabelle Delobel Olivier Schoenfelder	31.2	14	14	16	16	16
Marina Anissina Gwendal Peizerat	2.0	1	1	1	1

Freestyle skiing

See main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Laurent Niol	Moguls	29.94	24.46	16 Q	27.87	25.00	12
Cédric Regnier-Lafforgue		30.05	24.87	13 Q	29.95	25.63	11
Johann Grégoire		28.36	24.97	12 Q	28.06	22.77	14
Richard Gay		29.42	25.86	5 Q	28.11	26.91

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
		Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Kathleen Allais	Moguls	39.48	20.54	24	did not advance
Sandra Laoura		37.13	23.54	7 Q	34.82	24.12	8

Ice hockey

See main article: Ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's tournament

Preliminary round - Group B

Top team (shaded) advanced to the first round.

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	3	2	1	0	9	5	+4	4
	3	1	1	1	7	9	-2	3
	3	0	2	1	6	10	-4	1

Consolation round

13th place match

• Team roster
  • Cristobal Huet
  • Fabrice Lhenry
  • Patrick Rolland
  • Allan Carriou
  • Vincent Bachet
  • Karl Dewolf
  • Jean-François Bonnard
  • Denis Perez
  • Benoit Pourtanel
  • Baptiste Amar
  • Benoit Bachelet
  • Stéphane Barin
  • Arnaud Briand
  • Maurice Rozenthal
  • Laurent Meunier
  • Francis Rozenthal
  • Philippe Bozon
  • Yorick Treille
  • Guillaume Besse
  • Jonathan Zwikel
  • Anthony Mortas
  • Richard Aimonetto
  • Laurent Gras
• Head coach: Heikki Leime

Luge

See main article: Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yann Fricheteau	45.240	21	45.009	12	44.869	20	45.060	13	3:00.178	18
Johan Rousseau	44.999	13	45.025	14	44.766	16	45.243	21	3:00.033	15

Women

Nordic combined

See main article: Nordic combined at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's sprint

Events:

• large hill ski jumping
• 7.5 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
	Points	Rank
Frédéric Baud	93.1	35	18:33.5	27
Nicolas Bal	96.5	32	18:04.8	18
Kevin Arnould	101.1	24	19:00.9	34
Ludovic Roux	103.5	20	17:45.7	10

Men's individual

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Ski Jumping		Cross-country time	Total rank
	Points	Rank
Ludovic Roux	202.0	37	44:22.3	26
Frédéric Baud	206.0	36	45:35.9	37
Nicolas Bal	216.5	27	41:43.3	10
Kevin Arnould	236.5	9	43:12.1	17

Men's Team

Four participants per team.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 5 km cross-country skiing

Short track speed skating

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Bruno Loscos	500 m	43.864	2 Q	1:39.879	4	did not advance
Ludovic Mathieu		43.790	3 ADV	1:13.328	4	did not advance
Gregory Durand	1000 m	DSQ	-	did not advance
Bruno Loscos		1:28.532	3	did not advance
Bruno Loscos	1500 m	2:23.517	2 Q			2:15.981	2 QF	2:19.587	5
Gregory Durand		2:20.496	3 Q			2:49.994	5	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Stéphanie Bouvier	500 m	45.723	3	did not advance
Stéphanie Bouvier	1000 m	1:37.684	2 Q	1:35.409	3	did not advance
Stéphanie Bouvier	1500 m	2:30.075	2 Q			2:31.570	3 QB	2:32.673	11

Skeleton

See main article: Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Ski jumping

See main article: Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Qualifying jump			Final jump 1			Final jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Nicolas Dessum	Normal hill	91.5	117.5	7 Q	90.0	114.0	24 Q	91.5	117.5	231.5	22
Florentin Durand	Large hill	96.5	66.7	44	did not advance
Rémi Santiago		105.0	84.0	33 Q	117.0	106.1	33	did not advance
Emmanuel Chedal		111.0	97.3	21 Q	118.5	111.3	24 Q	109.5	93.6	204.9	28
Nicolas Dessum		115.5	104.4	10 Q	118.5	110.3	27 Q	118.5	109.8	220.1	23

Men's team large hill

¹ Four teams members performed two jumps each.

Snowboarding

See main article: Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Charlie Cosnier	38.41	23	did not advance
Christophe Ségura	38.06	21	did not advance
Nicolas Huet	37.49	16 Q	Nicolas Het W	Sigi Grabner W	Richard Richardsson L (DSQ)	Chris Klug L	4
Mathieu Bozzetto	36.90	7 Q	Dieter Krassnig W	Philipp Schoch L	did not advance		6

Men's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Sébastien Vassoney	13.5	32	32.1	15	did not advance
Mathieu Justafre	16.0	30	12.2	27	did not advance
Jonathan Collomb-Patton	23.9	22	28.5	22	did not advance

Women's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
	Time	Rank
Florine Valdenaire	44.96	25	did not advance
Julie Pomagalski	42.25	5 Q	Marion Posch W	Isabelle Blanc L	did not advance		6
Isabelle Blanc	42.20	4 Q	Steffi von Siebenthal W	Julie Pomagalski W	Jagna Marczułajtis W	Karine Ruby W
Karine Ruby	41.45	2 Q	Mariya Tikhvinskaya W	Lisa Kosglow W	Lidia Trettel W	Isabelle Blanc L

Women's halfpipe

Speed skating

See main article: Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
1000 m	Cédric Kuentz	1:11.26	38
1500 m	Cédric Kuentz	1:48.20	29
5000 m	Cédric Kuentz	6:35.05	24

References

• Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com