The French sailing team won five medals, including two gold, during the French Olympic Week which ended on Saturday in Hyères, three months before the Paris Olympic Games, where the sailing Blues will be ambitious.
On Saturday, too strong a wind prevented the last regattas of this important international Olympic sailing event from taking place in several categories.
In 470, mixed dinghy, the French duo formed by Camille Lecointre and Jérémie Mion therefore won since they were in the lead at the end of the qualifying phases.
Already winner of the Princess Sofia Trophy at the beginning of the month in Palma de Mallorca and the Test Event last July in Marseille, the French crew will have a real chance of an Olympic medal this summer.
This is also the case for Lauriane Nolot and Axel Mazella, who both took bronze in kite-foil this week in Hyères.
In this discipline which will be on the Olympic program for the first time this summer, it was another Frenchwoman, Jessie Kampman, who won. She will not participate in the Games, the selection committee having chosen Nolot, reigning world and European champion.
In 49er, double dinghy, Erwan Fischer and Clément Pequin, crowned world champions last month, took 3rd place in Hyères. They will also participate in the Olympics, like Charline Picon and Sarah Steyaert, who finished 8th on the same boat.
In IQFoil (windsurfing), the French selections Hélène Noesmoen and Nicolas Goyard ranked 7th and 6th. In Ilca (single dinghy), Louise Cervara and Jean-Baptiste Bernaz, other Olympic selections, took 17th and 7th place respectively.