France made Olympic history in Antholz 2026, becoming the first nation ever to sweep the Women’s, Men’s and Mixed Relays at a single Winter Games. On top of that, the French men won the relay for the first time at the Olympic Winter Games.

In Antholz 2026, France’s Mixed Relay team won Olympic gold for the second time, following Martin Fourcade’s anchor leg that secured victory alongside Marie Dorin Habert, Anaïs Bescond and Simon Destieux at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. France delivered a phenomenal performance on the shooting range, with Dorin Habert, Destieux and Fourcade requiring no spare rounds, while Bescond used four.

Camille Bened, Lou Jeanmonnot, Océane Michelon and Julia Simon secured France’s second Olympic gold in the women’s relay in Antholz 2026, the first having come at the Olympic debut of women’s biathlon in Albertville–Les Saisies in 1992, when Corinne Niogret, Véronique Claudel and Anne Briand triumphed in a three-athlete relay format.

At the IBU World Championships Antholz 2020, the French men’s relay team claimed the gold medal for the first time in 19 years. Their previous world title in the event had come in 2001 in Pokljuka. The 2020 quartet of Emilien Jacquelin, Martin Fourcade, Simon Desthieux and Quentin Fillon Maillet finished in 1:12:35.9, using just four spare rounds to defeat the pre-competition favourites, Norway. Six years later, in Antholz 2026, the French men’s relay team went one step further, capturing their first-ever Olympic gold in the discipline.