France at the 1992 Winter Olympics

France was the host nation for the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. It was the third time that France had hosted the Winter Olympic Games (after the 1924 Games in Chamonix and the 1968 Games in Grenoble), and the fifth time overall (after the 1900 and 1924 Summer Olympics, both in Paris).

France at the
1992 Winter Olympics
IOC codeFRA
NOCFrench National Olympic and Sports Committee
Websitewww.franceolympique.com (in French)
in Albertville
Competitors109 (79 men, 30 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearers Fabrice Guy, Nordic Combined
Medals
Ranked 7th
Gold
3
Silver
5
Bronze
1
Total
9
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)

Medalists

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Medal Name Sport Event Date
  Gold Fabrice Guy Nordic combined Individual 12 February
  Gold Edgar Grospiron Freestyle skiing Men's moguls 13 February
  Gold Corinne Niogret
Véronique Claudel
Anne Briand-Bouthiaux
Biathlon Women's relay 14 February
  Silver Franck Piccard Alpine skiing Men's downhill 9 February
  Silver Sylvain Guillaume Nordic combined Individual 12 February
  Silver Olivier Allamand Freestyle skiing Men's moguls 13 February
  Silver Isabelle Duchesnay
Paul Duchesnay
Figure skating Ice dance 17 February
  Silver Carole Merle Alpine skiing Women's super-G 18 February
  Bronze Florence Masnada Alpine skiing Women's combined 13 February

Competitors

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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[1]

Sport Men Women Total
Alpine skiing 10 9 19
Biathlon 6 4 10
Bobsleigh 9 9
Cross-country skiing 6 5 11
Figure skating 6 6 12
Freestyle skiing 4 2 6
Ice hockey 22 22
Luge 3 0 3
Nordic combined 4 4
Short track speed skating 4 4 8
Ski jumping 4 4
Speed skating 1 0 1
Total 79 30 109

Alpine skiing

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Men
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Adrien Duvillard Downhill DNF
Denis Rey 1:54.28 27
Luc Alphand 1:52.34 12
Franck Piccard 1:50.42  
Armand Schiele Super-G DNF
Franck Piccard DNF
Jean-Luc Crétier 1:16.36 24
Luc Alphand 1:15.39 16
Franck Piccard Giant Slalom 1:07.14 1:04.79 2:11.93 18
Alain Feutrier 1:07.11 1:04.89 2:12.00 19
Stéphane Exartier 1:06.87 1:03.80 2:10.67 13
Patrice Bianchi Slalom DNF DNF
Stéphane Exartier 58.31 55.59 1:53.90 30
Alain Feutrier 54.50 DNF DNF
François Simond 53.88 53.61 1:47.49 12

Men's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Adrien Duvillard DSQ DSQ
Denis Rey DSQ DSQ
Jean-Luc Crétier 1:46.25 49.67 52.42 18.97 4
Women
Athlete Event Race 1 Race 2 Total
Time Time Time Rank
Marie-Pierre Gatel Downhill 1:56.25 23
Cathy Chedal 1:55.91 22
Régine Cavagnoud 1:54.94 17
Carole Merle 1:54.73 13
Régine Cavagnoud Super-G 1:26.69 26
Cathy Chedal 1:25.66 22
Florence Masnada 1:25.42 19
Carole Merle 1:22.63  
Cathy Chedal Giant Slalom DSQ DSQ
Sophie Lefranc 1:09.54 1:09.13 2:18.67 19
Christelle Guignard 1:08.08 DNF DNF
Carole Merle 1:06.67 1:07.57 2:14.24 6
Béatrice Filliol Slalom DNF DNF
Florence Masnada DNF DNF
Christelle Guignard 50.20 46.11 1:36.31 14
Patricia Chauvet-Blanc 48.98 44.74 1:33.72 6

Women's combined

Athlete Downhill Slalom Total
Time Time 1 Time 2 Points Rank
Béatrice Filliol 1:30.03 34.23 DNF DNF
Régine Cavagnoud 1:28.16 35.96 36.03 51.13 10
Florence Masnada 1:27.08 35.19 34.82 21.38  

Biathlon

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Men
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
10 km Sprint Xavier Blond 3 28:32.8 45
Christian Dumont 4 28:30.7 42
Patrice Bailly-Salins 3 27:49.7 30
Hervé Flandin 1 26:56.6 10
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
20 km Lionel Laurent 59:10.6 4 1'03:10.6 47
Thierry Gerbier 1'00:24.8 2 1'02:24.8 39
Patrice Bailly-Salins 56:28.3 4 1'00:28.3 22
Christian Dumont 57:27.0 2 59:27.0 13
Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Xavier Blond
Thierry Gerbier
Christian Dumont
Hervé Flandin
0 1'27:13.3 6
Women
Event Athlete Misses 1 Time Rank
7.5 km Sprint Véronique Claudel 4 27:04.5 24
Corinne Niogret 3 26:32.3 17
Delphyne Heymann-Burlet 4 25:50.5 9
Anne Briand-Schaaf 2 25:29.8 7
Event Athlete Time Misses Adjusted time 2 Rank
15 km Anne Briand-Bouthiaux 49:05.1 7 56:05.1 19
Corinne Niogret 51:06.6 2 53:06.6 7
Delphyne Heymann-Burlet 50:00.8 3 53:00.8 6
Véronique Claudel 50:21.2 2 52:21.2 4
Women's 3 x 7.5 km relay
Athletes Race
Misses 1 Time Rank
Corinne Niogret
Véronique Claudel
Anne Briand-Bouthiaux
0 1'15:55.6  
1 A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.
2 One minute added per missed target.

Bobsleigh

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Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
FRA-1 Christophe Flacher
Claude Dasse
Two-man 1:01.13 16 1:01.52 15 1:01.47 11 1:01.44 12 4:05.56 14
FRA-2 Gabriel Fourmigué
Philippe Tanchon
Two-man 1:01.19 18 1:01.72 19 1:01.77 16 1:01.70 14 4:06.38 17
Sled Athletes Event Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
FRA-1 Christophe Flacher
Claude Dasse
Thierry Tribondeau
Gabriel Fourmigué
Four-man 58.45 7 58.79 7 58.78 11 58.89 8 3:54.91 8
FRA-2 Bruno Mingeon
Stéphane Poirot
Didier Stil
Dominique Klinnik
Four-man 59.03 17 59.33 19 59.52 20 59.53 20 3:57.41 18

Cross-country skiing

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Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
10 km
C
Cédric Vallet 34:35.1 79
Philippe Sanchez 31:42.3 51
Stéphane Azambre 31:22.2 43
Patrick Rémy 30:45.1 36
15 km
pursuit1
F
Cédric Vallet 48:10.2 68
Stéphane Azambre 43:26.9 38
Philippe Sanchez 42:34.3 30
Patrick Rémy 42:08.5 22
30 km
C
Guy Balland 1'30:19.6 37
Patrick Rémy 1'27:54.0 23
50 km
F
Stéphane Azambre 2'13:49.8 26
Guy Balland 2'10:40.8 14
Hervé Balland 2'07:17.7 5
1 Starting delay based on 10 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Patrick Rémy
Philippe Sanchez
Stéphane Azambre
Hervé Balland
1'44:51.1 8
Women
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
5 km
C
Sophie Villeneuve 16:15.0 49
Sylvie Giry-Rousset 16:06.6 45
Marie-Pierre Guilbaud 15:53.6 37
Isabelle Mancini 15:12.1 22
10 km
pursuit2
F
Marie-Pierre Guilbaud 31:41.3 46
Sylvie Giry-Rousset 29:46.3 32
Sophie Villeneuve 29:28.5 31
Isabelle Mancini 27:39.3 9
15 km
C
Carole Stanisière 47:20.1 32
Sylvie Giry-Rousset 46:48.5 28
30 km
F
Marie-Pierre Guilbaud DNF
Sylvie Giry-Rousset 1'35:08.4 39
Isabelle Mancini 1'31:03.3 21
Sophie Villeneuve 1'30:14.5 18
2 Starting delay based on 5 km results.
C = Classical style, F = Freestyle
Women's 4 × 5 km relay
Athletes Race
Time Rank
Carole Stanisière
Sylvie Giry-Rousset
Sophie Villeneuve
Isabelle Mancini
1'01:30.7 5

Curling

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Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

  France
Megève CC, Megève

Skip: Dominique Dupont-Roc
Third: Claude Feige
Second: Patrick Philippe
Lead: Thierry Mercier
Alternate: Daniel Moratelli

Figure skating

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Men
Athlete SP FS TFP Rank
Éric Millot 17 13 21.5 15
Nicolas Pétorin 14 14 21.0 14
Women
Athlete SP FS TFP Rank
Laëtitia Hubert 5 15 17.5 12
Surya Bonaly 3 6 7.5 5
Pairs
Athletes SP FS TFP Rank
Line Haddad
Sylvain Prive
16 16 24.0 16
Ice Dancing
Athletes CD1 CD2 OD FD TFP Rank
Sophie Moniotte
Pascal Lavanchy
9 9 8 9 17.4 9
Doninique Yvon
Frédéric Palluel
8 8 9 8 16.6 8
Isabelle Duchesnay
Paul Duchesnay
3 3 2 2 4.4  

Freestyle skiing

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Men
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Éric Berthon Moguls 33.26 23.41 8 Q 33.87 24.79 4
Youri Gilg 33.39 23.63 5 Q 33.20 22.85 9
Olivier Allamand 31.85 24.96 2 Q 32.91 24.87  
Edgar Grospiron 31.80 25.23 1 Q 31.23 25.81  
Women
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Time Points Rank Time Points Rank
Candice Gilg Moguls 54.94 8.74 24 did not advance
Raphaëlle Monod 38.78 24.09 1 Q 43.72 15.57 8

Ice hockey

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Group B

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Twelve participating teams were placed in two groups. After playing a round-robin, the top four teams in each group advanced to the Medal Round while the last two teams competed in the consolation round for the 9th to 12th places.

     Team advanced to the Final Round
     Team sent to compete in the Consolation round
Team GP W L T GF GA DIF PTS
  Canada 5 4 1 0 28 9 19 8
  Unified Team 5 4 1 0 32 10 22 8
  Czechoslovakia 5 4 1 0 25 15 10 8
  France 5 2 3 0 14 22 -8 4
   Switzerland 5 1 4 0 13 25 -12 2
  Norway 5 0 5 0 7 38 -31 0
  France 2:3   Canada
  France 4:6   Czechoslovakia
  France 4:3    Switzerland
  France 0:8   Unified Team
  France 4:2   Norway

Final round

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Quarter-finals

  France 1:4   United States

Consolation round 5th-8th places

  France 4:5   Germany

7th-place match

  France 8th 1:4   Finland

Contestants

Luge

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Men
Athlete Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Frédéric Bertrand 47.663 30 47.800 32 48.443 31 49.050 32 3:12.956 32
Yves Boyer 47.378 29 46.917 26 47.891 28 47.644 27 3:09.830 28
Olivier Fraise 46.287 21 47.278 30 46.981 22 46.814 20 3:07.360 22

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes Run 1 Run 2 Total
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Yves Boyer
Frédéric Bertrand
48.847 20 48.060 19 1:36.907 19

Nordic combined

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Men's individual

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps.)
  • 15 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athlete Event Ski Jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
Xavier Girard Individual 199.3 22 +3:14.7 48:02.0 13
Francis Repellin 201.9 19 +2:57.4 50:28.4 27
Sylvain Guillaume 208.1 13 +2:16.0 45:16.5  
Fabrice Guy 222.1 3 +42.7 44:28.1  

Men's Team

Three participants per team.

Events:

  • normal hill ski jumping (Best two out of three jumps per team member were counted.)
  • 10 km cross-country skiing (Start delay, based on ski jumping results.)
Athletes Ski jumping Cross-country Total
Points Rank Start at Time Rank
Francis Repellin
Sylvain Guillaume
Fabrice Guy
578.4 5 +5:33.0 1'25:52.0 4

Short track speed skating

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Men
Athlete Event Round one Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Final rank
Marc Bella 1000 m 1:34.22 3 did not advance
Marc Bella
Arnaud Drouet
Rémi Ingres
Claude Nicouleau
5000 m relay 7:38.32 3 q 7:26.09 3 QB 7:26.09 5
Women
Athlete Event Round one Quarter finals Semi finals Finals
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Final rank
Karine Rubini 500 m 49.25 2 Q 1:08.41 4 did not advance
Valérie Barizza
Sandrine Daudet
Murielle Leyssieux
Karine Rubini
3000 m relay 4:43.32 3 did not advance

Ski jumping

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Athlete Event Jump 1 Jump 2 Total
Distance Points Distance Points Points Rank
Jérôme Gay Normal hill 79.5 88.7 79.5 92.2 180.9 43
Steve Delaup 78.5 92.1 79.5 94.7 186.8 32
Nicolas Jean-Prost 81.0 97.6 81.0 98.1 195.7 19
Didier Mollard 84.5 103.7 85.0 106.0 209.7 8
Jérôme Gay Large hill 70.0 17.0 97.5 76.5 93.5 54
Nicolas Jean-Prost 92.5 69.5 78.0 35.2 104.7 51
Didier Mollard 104.5 89.8 81.0 42.4 132.2 40
Steve Delaup 106.0 92.9 105.5 92.7 185.6 6
Men's team large hill
Athletes Result
Points 1 Rank
Jérôme Gay
Didier Mollard
Nicolas Jean-Prost
Steve Delaup
510.9 10
1 Four teams members performed two jumps each. The best three were counted.

Speed skating

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Men
Event Athlete Race
Time Rank
1000 m Thierry Lamberton 1:31.64 44
1500 m Thierry Lamberton 2:04.04 41
5000 m Thierry Lamberton 7:35.51 35

References

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