SIMON Julia

FRA
FRA

Header iconSeason 2024/2025

World Cup
Ranking
3
Points
902

Header iconCareer Podiums & Medals

1
Olympic Medals
103
World Championship Medals
182321
World Cup Podiums
1
Total Score Globes
2
Discipline Globes

Header iconAbout

Date of birth09 Oct 1996
WC Debut2017
WC Starts234
Social media
Biography

Julia Simon moved up to the BMW IBU World Cup circuit full-time in the 2018/19 season. Since that time, she has become one of the most exciting female competitors at the sport’s top level, taking unexpected victories with gritty determined fast finishes.

Before her promotion, she was very successful on the junior level winning two IBU YJWCH medals, as well as a Junior European Championship and IBU Junior Cup titles. Stepping up to the IBU Cup level, she added two IBU OECH medals and an IBU Cup sprint win at Martell in 2017. Simon broke through to the sport’s top ranks in the last two seasons with her first-ever BMW IBU World Cup victory in the season-ending 2020 Kontiolahti pursuit and by taking two mass start titles at Antholz and Oberhof in the 2020/21 season. Simon put an exclamation mark on her rise to the women’s top ranks by winning the 2021 IBU WCH Single Mixed Relay Gold medal with Antonin Guigonnat.

Simon, a nature lover resides in the middle of natural mountain beauty at Les Saises, the site 1992 OWG biathlon competitions.

Header iconEquipment

Skis
Salomon
Ski Poles
One Way
Ski Boots
Salomon
Rifle
Anschutz
Ammunition
RWS
Race Suit
Craft
Personal Sponsors
Les Saisies, Somfy

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