Biathlon: Eric Perrot was by far the strongest in the mass start at the French Championships in Les Saisies
After returning from the Lucerne 2025 World Military Games with three gold medals and a bronze last night, Eric Perrot lined up at the start of the mass start of the French biathlon championships in Les Saisies (Savoie) at 2.00pm sharp.
With Fabien Claude, Emilien Claude, Quentin Fillon-Maillet and Emilien Jacquelin all withdrawing for various reasons, the Peiserot unleashed the horses. Although he made three mistakes on the mats to achieve a score of 17/20 for shooting, he was very fast on the cross-country track.
Eric Perrot enjoyed a great ride despite his tiredness to win his first national title in the senior format. He crossed the finish line with the Savoyard flag in his hand, proud to give the mass-start gold medal back to his committee for the first time since Vincent Jay won it in 2009.
On the podium, he was joined at 16 sec 9 by Doubiste’s Oscar Lombardot (18/20) and at 41 sec 3 by Montblanc’s Gaëtan Paturel (18/20). Paturel won both the bronze medal in the senior category and the U22 title.
Mathieu Garcia (16/20), Théo Guiraud-Poillot (14/20), Judicaël Perrillat-Bottonet (16/20), silver medallist at U22 level, Damien Levet (17/20), Rémi Broutier (13/20), Edgar Geny (15/20), bronze medallist at U22 level, and Martin Botet (15/20) all made the top 10.
Bornandin Paul Fontaine finished nineteenth (12/20) and Mathieu Perrillat-Bottonet twenty-sixth (13/20). Both were competing in the last race of their careers.
Full results
- The full programme for the 2025 French Championships in Les Saisies
- Les Saisies: Villardien Martin Minazzi crowned French U17 mass-start champion
- Les Saisies: gold medal in the U17 women’s mass start for Zabou Mellouet-Achard
- Les Saisies: Camille Grataloup-Manissolle French U19 mass-start champion ahead of Flavio Guy, Léo Carlier with a tan
- “I knew I wasn’t too bad at sprinting”: how Camille Grataloup-Manissolle got the better of Flavio Guy to become French U19 mass-start champion
- Les Saisies: Louise Roguet new French U19 mass-start champion, Alice Dusserre and Léna Moretti on the podium
- “I gave it everything I had”: Louise Roguet’s reaction to being crowned French U19 mass start champion in Les Saisies
- Les Saisies: Martin Minazzi, Camille Grataloup-Manissolle and Emilien Jacquelin, for the Dauphiné, win the relay for the French championships
- “I wanted to run for the lads and the committee”: the joy of Martin Minazzi, Camille Grataloup-Manissolle and Emilien Jacquelin, French relay champions at Les Saisies
- Les Saisies: Adèle Ouvrier-Buffet, Louise Roguet and Jeanne Richard, for Mont-Blanc, French relay champions
- “Wonderful moments”: the joy of Jeanne Richard, Adèle Ouvrier-Buffet and Louise Roguet after their national relay title at Les Saisies
- Les Saisies: Justine Braisaz-Bouchet French mass-start champion ahead of Voldiya Galmace-Paulin and Julia Simon
- “I gave it my all”: the satisfaction of Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, French mass start champion in front of her home crowd at Les Saisies
- Voldiya Galmace-Paulin, French U22 mass-start champion in Les Saisies: “I couldn’t have asked for a better way to end my season”.
