Stevenson Savart

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Stevenson Savart
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Savart at the 2025 World Championships
Personal information
National team Haiti
Born (2000-05-11) 11 May 2000 (age 25)
Delmas, Haiti [1]
Sport
Sport Cross-country skiing

Stevenson Savart (born 11 May 2000) is a Haitian and French cross-country skier. He represented Haiti at the 2026 Winter Olympics and bore the nation's flag at the 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony. [2] [1] He was the first athlete to represent Haiti in cross-country skiing. [3]

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Biography

Savart was born in Delmas, Haiti, in 2000. He moved to France when he was three years old and was adopted by French parents in La Bresse. His adoptive parents introduced him to skiing in the Vosges at five years old. [4] He is a former student of the Toussaint Louverture High School in Pontarlier [5] and now works as a teaching assistant there. He met his birth family in Haiti for the first time in 2015 and maintains contact with them. [4]

He represented Haiti at the 2023–24 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before skiing for Haiti at the 2023 and 2025 World Championships. He purchased equipment to attend the 2026 Winter Olympics with a scholarship provided by the Olympic Solidarity program. [3] He placed sixty-fourth in the 2026 Olympic men's skiathlon event. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Stevenson SAVART". Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics .
  2. ↑ "Haiti's flag raised high at 2026 Winter Olympics ceremony". The Haitian Times. 7 February 2026. Archived from the original on 7 February 2026. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Haiti's first Olympic cross-country skier celebrated by crowd after jubilant finish in men's skiathlon". NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 9 February 2026. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  4. 1 2 Bouhier, Florian. "Stevenson Savart, the Haitian skier ready to make history for his country: "We have to be taken seriously"". Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics.
  5. ↑ "Ski de fond – Formé à La Bresse, Stevenson Savart sera le premier Haïtien aux Jeux Olympiques". remiremontvallees.com (in French). 17 December 2022. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 9 February 2026.
  6. ↑ "Stevenson Savart". Olympedia . Retrieved 9 February 2026.
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