Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet, double Olympic silver medalist in Beijing a year ago, will end her career at the end of the season, this weekend in Oslo, she announced on the networks on Wednesday. social. “It will be my last laps in Oslo. It’s time for me to hang up the rifle and the skis, “wrote on Instagram the biathlete who celebrated her thirtieth birthday in February, in a message accompanying a drawing representing her at the window of a famous German combi, alongside the mascots. of the three Winter Olympics in which she participated, from Sochi in 2014 to Beijing in 2022, via Pyeongchang in 2018.
Chevalier-Bouchet, who gave birth to a little girl, Emie, at the end of 2019, has three Olympic medals to her name, two in silver (individual and mixed relay in 2022) and one in bronze (women’s relay in 2018).
She also has seven world medals, three won individually, silver in the sprint and bronze in the pursuit in 2021 in Pokljuka (Slovenia), and bronze in the sprint in 2017 in Hochfilzen (Austria), plus four won in the relay.
A World Cup victory in 2016
All he needs is an international title. It was this world gold goal that had motivated the extension of her career after the 2022 Olympics. She will not have achieved it, even if she tackled the last standing shot from the mass start at the Worlds at the head of the race Oberhof (Germany) in February.
“I am happy to have given myself the means to succeed and to have remained true to my values throughout my career,” she continues. Proud to have held on in difficult times, proud to have dared, to have made choices, to have assumed them. »
Since his World Cup debut in 2013, Chevalier-Bouchet has made 259 starts there (before the last three races in Oslo). She won once: in pursuit at Hochfilzen in 2016. She still climbed on four individual podiums over the winter.
Like the French, the Norwegian star Marte Olsbu Roeiseland and the German Denise Herrmann-Wick announced the day before that they would end their careers at the end of winter.