Romain HEINRICH

Historical Results

Romaich, Rominou, Hulk, Hein, La Heine.

Spending time with friends, eating, drinking wine.

Athlete, Industrial Engineer

Studied Industrial Engineering as an undergraduate at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (FRA).
Master's Degree in Business Administration from Grenoble IAE (FRA) in 2014.

Father, Philippe. Mother, Brigitte.

French, English, German

Club Bob Luge Skeleton La Plagne

Personal: Nicolae Istrate (ROU), Max Robert (FRA)

Pilot

Father Philippe Heinrich (Athletics): Competed in shot put and discus at an international level in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mother Brigitte (Athletics): Competed in discus.

Cousin Carl Medjani (Football): Played for Algeria at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, scoring four goals in his international career.

Cousin Kim Medjani (Swimming/Water Polo): Competed briefly for France at an international level in swimming and then transitioned to water polo where she represented her country at the 2008 European Water Polo Championships.

Athletics: Competed in shot put at the national level while he attended university, qualifying for the French Championships.

2011 World Cup in La Plagne (Four-man - 19th)

In 2011, he was encouraged to take up the sport by French bobsledder Florent Ribet, who was also a sprinter at Heinrich's athletics club. He began his pilot's training in 2015. (Info 2018)

"I've always liked thrills, but I never expected something so extreme. I was 21 and I embarked on the adventure." (la-croix.com, 27 Feb 2019)

To win a medal in the two-man with brakeman Dorian Hauterville at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. (ffsg.org, 26 Aug 2020)

"During the winter, I train every morning on the track. Two to three descents maximum, because we favour quality. In general, it's two hours of training, because we spend a lot of time upstream doing visual reconnaissance on the track, and a lot of time downstream working on the videos to correct faults... In general, the competitions are at the end of the week, so we tend to do the big physical sessions at the beginning of the week, so as not to arrive too sore at the competitions." (enjoy-events.fr, 25 Jan 2018)

"I'm not the type to be a big fan, so for this question, I would answer [French decathlete] Bastien Auzeil. Bastien has simply been my training partner since 2009, or the other way around." (francebleu.fr, 16 Feb 2018)

Drinks a Red Bull before each race, and allows himself the indulgence of a Kinder or Milka chocolate when he's finished. (enjoy-events.fr, 25 Jan 2018)