A few weeks before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the French sailing team won two European podiums on Sunday, with the duo Charline Picon/Sarah Steyaert, European vice-champions of 49erFx in La Grande Motte, and the tandem Camille Lecointre/Jérémie Mion, who took bronze in 470 in Cannes.
This second European place is the best result obtained by Picon and Steyaert since they sailed together. Olympic windsurfing champion in 2016 in Rio, then silver medalist in Tokyo, Picon changed support to try a new adventure on the 49erFx, a double-handed dinghy. Steyaert, for his part, had cut ties with the high level after the 2016 Olympics before agreeing in 2021 to team up with Picon.
On the same stretch of water at La Grande Motte, the men’s 49er duo, formed by Erwan Fischer and Clément Pequin, recently crowned world champions and who will also be at the Olympics, could only take 17th place.
Another tandem selected for the Olympics this summer on the Marseille waters, the Lou Berthomieu/Tim Mourniac crew took 9th place in the Nacra 17 world championships (catamaran), still in La Grande Motte.
In Cannes, Camille Lecointre and Jérémie Mion won bronze at the 470 European Championships (mixed doubles dinghy). Winner this season of the Princess Sofia Trophy and the French Olympic Week in Hyères, the Lecointre-Mion team will have a real chance of an Olympic medal this summer. The Olympic sailing events will be held in Marseille from July 28 to August 8.
