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Birth name | Camille Lecointre |
Full name | Camille Lecointre Kliger |
Born | 25 February 1985 40) Harfleur, France | (age
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Camille Lecointre (born 25 February 1985 in Harfleur) is a French sailor.
Lecointre competed in the women's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics. [1] [2] She finished fourth with Mathilde Géron in that event. She was a bronze medalist in the 470 class 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 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 the 470 category at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, [7] and won 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] and a daughter born in 2022.