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| Born | 25 February 1985 (age 39) Harfleur, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Camille Lecointre (born 25 February 1985 in Harfleur) is a French sailor.
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Camille Lecointre (born 25 February 1985 in Harfleur) is a French sailor.
Lecointre competed in the 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [1] [2] She finished fourth with Mathilde Géron in that event. She was a bronze medalist in 470 at the 2015 World Championships [3] and won the world title in 2016 with Hélène Defrance. [4] Lecointre and Defrance were selected to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics and they won the bronze medal in the women's 470 class. [5]
Lecointre and Aloïse Retornaz won the 470 European Championships in 2019 and 2021. [6] They also won the silver medal in 470 category at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, [7] and win the final of the Sailing World Cup in Marseille. [8] Lecointre and Retornaz were awarded the 2019 Sailor of the Year award by the French Sailing Federation. [9] Lecointre and Retornaz won the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 470 event. [10]
Lecointre is married to Israeli skipper Gideon Kliger with whom she has a son born in 2017. [11]
Nicolas Charbonnier is a French sailor who won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He is 4 time World Champion, 3 time European Champion and "alinghi" team's tactician.
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Mathilde Géron is a French sailor. She competed in the 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Pierre-Alexis Ponsot is a French sailor, who specialized in two-person keelboat (Star) class. He represented France, along with his partner and six-time Olympian Xavier Rohart at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training for Ouest Nautical Sports Club throughout most of his sporting career. As of September 2014, Leboucher is ranked forty-first in the world for fleet racing and keelboat by the International Sailing Federation, following his successes at the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships and 2012 Star World Championships.
Camille Grassineau is a French rugby union player. She represented France at the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup. She was a member of the squad that won their fourth Six Nations title in 2014.
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The following are the scheduled events of sailing for the year 2019 throughout the world.
France competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. French athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, Great Britain, Greece, and Switzerland. As Paris will host the 2024 Summer Olympics, France was the penultimate nation to enter the stadium, alongside the United States which will host the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, before the host country Japan during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony. Additionally, a French segment was performed in Paris and some pre-recorded events at the closing ceremony as performers did not travel to Tokyo due to the travel restrictions related to the pandemic. However, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo was the only delegation present at the ceremony.
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Xavier Revil is a French sailor, who specialized in the multihull (Tornado) class. Together with his partner Christophe Espagnon, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the mixed multihull catamaran for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant eleventh position. Outside his Olympic career, he and Espagnon gave the home crowd a further reason to celebrate with a bronze-medal finish at the 2005 Tornado Worlds in La Rochelle. A member of the local sailing regatta club in his current hometown Annecy, Revil trained most of his competitive sporting career under the tutelage of his personal coach Philippe Neiras.
Christophe Espagnon is a French sailor, who specialized in the multihull (Tornado) class. Together with his partner Xavier Revil, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the mixed multihull catamaran for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant eleventh position. Outside his Olympic career, he and Revil gave the home crowd a further reason to celebrate with a bronze-medal finish at the 2005 Tornado Worlds in La Rochelle. A member of La Rochelle Sailing Regatta, Espagnon trained most of his competitive sporting career under the tutelage of his personal coach Philippe Neiras.
Aloïse Retornaz is a French sailor.
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