The duo formed by Camille Lecointre and Jérémie Mion won the gold medal in 470 on Saturday during the Olympic sailing test-event, dress rehearsal for the 2024 Olympics, during which the French team has already won three titles.
The French crew was at the top of the classification before the “medal-race” disputed this Saturday. They took 5th place during this regatta which brings together the top 10 in the general classification. This was enough for them to keep first place, ahead of the Germans Anastasiya and Malte Winkel and the Spaniards Nora Cabot and Jordi Hernandez. “It’s both good for morale and it’s also good for maybe impressing the competitors a bit. We also came there to learn from all the situations,” said Camille Lecointre.
“We are too happy. It’s really cool to win there. We had a podium at the Worlds, which was our first big meeting together. We’ve been sailing together for a little less than a year and to find ourselves in first place a year from the Games, it’s incredible ”, for his part judged Jérémie Mion. “But these are moderate emotions because it’s not the Games yet and our goal is in a year. It’s a beautiful place but it’s only the beginning of the road,” he added.
The 470 will be mixed for the first time at the Paris Olympics in 2024. Aged 38, Lecointre has already won two bronze medals at the Olympics, in 2016 in London and in 2021 in Tokyo. Jérémie Mion, 34, was world champion in 2018 and twice European champion. He started sailing with Camille Lecointre in 2022, after the birth of the helmsman’s second child.
On Friday, the French team had obtained the first two gold medals with the coronations in kite-foil, a new Olympic discipline, of Laurianne Nolot and Axel Mazella. On Sunday, the Blues can hope for two more medals with Nicolas Goyard, who is leading in IQFoil (windsurfing), and the Erwan Fischer-Clément Pequin duo, currently 2nd in 49er.
