Christophe Espagnon (born 6 January 1976) is a French sailor, who specialized in the multihull (Tornado) class.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] A member of La Rochelle Sailing Regatta (French: Société des Régates Rochelaises), Espagnon trained most of his competitive sporting career under the tutelage of his personal coach Philippe Neiras.[4]
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| Nationality |  France | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 January 1976 Talence, France | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sailing career | |||||||||||||||
| Class | Multihull | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Société des Régates Rochelaises | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Philippe Neiras | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Espagnon competed for the French sailing squad, as a 32-year-old crew member in the Tornado class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Building up their Olympic selection, he and skipper Revil finished a credible sixth in the golden fleet phase to lock one of the eleven quota places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.[5] The French duo started the series with a fantastic top-four mark on the second race; however, a broken halyard lock before race 4 and a wave of unimpressive tenths towards the final stretch bumped Espagnon and Revil out of the medal hunt to eleventh overall by a slight margin, amassing 69 net points.[2][6][7]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Christophe Espagnon". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Voile. Tornado : les Espagnols champions olympiques" [Sailing. Tornado: the Spaniards become Olympic champions] (in French). Ouest-France. 21 August 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Hagara Claims Bullet But Echavarri Leads". World Sailing. 16 June 2005. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Xavier Revil et Christophe Espagnon remportent le championnat Nord Américain" [Xavier Revil and Christophe Espagnon won the North American championship title] (in French). French Sailing Federation. 2 March 2006. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Xavier Revil et Christophe Espagnon sélectionnés pour les JO en Tornado" [Xavier Revil and Christophe Espagnon were selected for the Olympics in Tornado] (in German). French Sailing Federation. 28 September 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
- ^ "Spaniards Stay Ahead As Tornados Sail In Troubled Waters". World Sailing. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ "Beijing 2008: Open Tornado Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
External links
edit- Christophe Espagnon at World Sailing
- Christophe Espagnon at Olympics.com
- Christophe Espagnon at Olympic.org (archived)
- Christophe Espagnon at Olympedia (archive)
- Christophe Espagnon at NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 July 2012)
- Christophe Espagnon at the Fédération Française de Voile (in French)
- Christophe Espagnon at Équipe de France Olympique (archived) (in French)
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