Quentin Fillon Maillet won the sprint event (10 km) in biathlon on Friday at the Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina. This is his fourth Olympic title, after the mixed relay during these Games, the pursuit and the individual in 2022.
Published on: 02/13/2026 - 3:01 p.m. Modified on: 02/13/2026 - 4:13 p.m.
French biathlete Quentin Fillon Maillet obtains a new Olympic title. On Friday February 13, he won the biathlon sprint event (10 km) at the Anterselva site, in Italy, during the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games. With this medal, he won his fourth Olympic gold medal at the age of 33, after the pursuit and the individual in 2022 and the mixed relay in 2026.
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Author of a 10/10 behind the rifle, Quentin Fillon Maillet beat the Norwegians Vetle Christiansen (+13 sec 7) and Sturla Laegreid (+15 sec 9). The other Frenchman, Émilien Jacquelin, failed 2/10th of a second from the bronze medal (+16 sec 1).
Éric Perrot, individual Olympic vice-champion and World Cup leader, ranked 9th, just over a minute behind Quentin Fillon Maillet (8 out of 10 shooting). With the 7th podium of his career at the Games, “QFM” brings the 10th medal to the French delegation at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Games.
Quentin Fillon Maillet had been the man of the Beijing Olympic Games in 2022. At the high altitude site of Zhangjiakou (1,700 m), he had reached five of the six podiums at stake, with gold in the individual (20 km) and pursuit (12.5 km), and silver in the mixed relay (4x6 km), the men's relay (4x7.5 km) and the sprint (10 km).
In three races contested in Anterselva, he has already won gold twice in the mixed relay (associated with Éric Perrot, Lou Jeanmonnot and Julia Simon) and had taken 8th place in the individual, penalized by his four shooting errors, with exceptional form on the skis.
Two gold medals away from Martin Fourcade's record
"It's huge. The emotions are different from a confrontational race, because when I cross the line, I'm not yet sure of anything and it's coming to fruition little by little. I dedicate this result to my partner, because we're both expecting a child. She supported me throughout this period," said Quentin Fillon Maillet on France Télévisions.
"It's crazy, second title for these Olympics... It's extraordinary. I knew exactly what to do today. I had calm, serenity, I enjoyed running," he added.
Between Beijing and Milan-Cortina, he had a complicated Olympiad, with only two World Cup victories, but remembered the good memories of his rivals this season by winning the pursuit in Ostersund (Sweden) at the start of the season. He gradually resolved his problem with the prone shot, finding solutions with the shooting coach, Jean-Pierre Amat.
Sunday in Anterselva, at 11:15 a.m., "QFM" will start at the head of the pursuit, a format which retains the gaps and the sprint ranking, in search of a fifth Olympic title, to get within one unit of Martin Fourcade, the most successful Frenchman of the Winter Olympics. Retired, he will collect his sixth gold medal early this afternoon at the site in northern Italy, which was awarded to him after the conviction for doping of Russian Evgeny Ustyugov.
With its 7th medal at the Games, "QFM" brings the 10th medal to the French delegation at the 2026 Olympic Games.
With AFP
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