French sailor
Camille Lecointre
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| Birth name | Camille Lecointre |
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| Full name | Camille Lecointre Kliger |
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| Born | 25 February 1985 (1985-02-25) (age 39)
Harfleur, France |
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Camille Lecointre (born 25 February 1985 in Harfleur) is a French sailor.
Career
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]
Personal life
Lecointre is married to Israeli skipper Gideon Kliger with whom she has a son born in 2017[11] and a daughter born in 2022.
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