He was one of the great medal hopefuls.
Quentin Fillon Maillet won the first gold medal for the French delegation at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, February 8, by winning the Individual in biathlon (20 km).
The 29-year-old from the Jura obtains the first title of his career at the Olympic Games and offers the French their 5th podium in the competition (one gold, four silvers).
Author of an 18/20 in shooting, Fillon Maillet beat Belarusian Anton Smolski and Norwegian title holder Johannes Boe.
France could even have won a second gold medal, but the Frenchwoman Tess Ledeux was finally overtaken by the Chinese Eileen Gu, who won the first Olympic title awarded in big air skiing.
With AFP
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