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Joël_Abati

Joël Marc Abati (born 25 April 1970) is a French handball player who has played ten years for SC Magdeburg in Germany until 2007. After returning to France and playing two years for Montpellier HB he ended his professional career in 2009, having won numerous prizes for his clubs and his country. In November 2019 he signed as trainer for the Belgian club Sporting Pelt.With France national team he is Olympic champion in 2008, World champion in 2001 and 2009 and European champion in 2006.

Roddy_Darragon

Roddy Darragon (born August 31, 1983 in Le Grand-Bornand) is a French cross-country skier and non-commissioned officer who has competed since 2002. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he earned France's first ever Winter Olympic cross-country skiing medal with a silver in the individual sprint event at Turin in 2006.
Darragon's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was a 35th in the individual sprint event in 2005. His best World Cup finish was fourth in a sprint event in the Czech Republic in 2005.

Nicolas_Bal

Nicholas Bal (born 2 June 1978) is a former French Nordic combined skier who competed from 1996 to 2007. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano he won a bronze in the 4 x 5 km team event.

Christelle_Daunay

Christelle Daunay (born 5 December 1974 in Le Mans, Sarthe) is a French long distance runner who specialises in road running. She is the current French marathon record holder. She represented France at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has competed a number of times in the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. She has had top-three finishes in the New York Marathon, Paris Marathon and the Course Paris-Versailles

Jacky_Boxberger

Jacques "Jacky" Boxberger (16 April 1949 – 9 August 2001) was a track and field athlete from France who specialized in long-distance races.
He was the great hope of French middle-distance running, breaking the junior world record in the 1500 metres at Stade Charléty in 1968. He represented France at the 1968, 1972, 1976 and 1984 Summer Olympics, placing sixth in the 1968 1500 metres and 42nd in the 1984 marathon. He also won the Paris Marathon in 1983 and 1985, the 1500 metres title at the 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships, the Marrakech Marathon in 1987, and French titles in the 1500 metres, 5000 metres, and 10000 metres. He suffered a knee injury during his military service with the Joinville battalion. His career was the most brilliant among male French distance runners of his era behind only that of former world mile record-holder Michel Jazy.Boxberger was part of the French team that finished third at the World Cross Country Championships in 1976.
In 2001, Boxberger was on vacation with his family in Kenya. While he was trying to film an elephant on a safari, the animal picked him up with its trunk, threw him against a tree, and trampled him to death.The middle distance runner Ophélie Claude-Boxberger is his daughter.

Ophélie-Cyrielle_Étienne

Ophélie-Cyrielle Étienne (born 9 September 1990) is a French swimmer from Wissembourg. In the 2012 Summer Olympics her 4 × 200 m freestyle team won a bronze medal in a time of 7:47.49. The split times were: Camille Muffat (1:55.51); Charlotte Bonnet (1:57.78); Étienne (1:58.05); Coralie Balmy (1:56.15).
She also competed in 200 m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay and the 4 x 100 m freestyle relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and the 200 m freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Charles_Bozon

Charles Bozon Jr. (15 December 1932 – 7 July 1964) was an alpine ski racer and world champion from France.Born in Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Bozon won a gold medal in the slalom at the 1962 World Championships, held at his hometown of Chamonix in a snowstorm. Earlier, he had won a bronze medal in the slalom at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California, and two world championship silver medals in the combined in 1956 and 1960.
Bozon suffered fractured vertebra in the giant slalom at the world championships in 1958 and vowed not to compete again. He did not compete in the Olympics in 1964.Bozon died in 1964 at age 31 in a mountain climbing accident near Mont Blanc. He and 13 climbing companions were killed in an avalanche on the Aiguille Verte, a 4,122-metre (13,524 ft) mountain in the Mont Blanc massif. The climbing party had reached an elevation of about 2,700 m (9,000 ft) when the avalanche occurred. Bozon's father, Charles, Sr., had died on the same slope in an avalanche in 1938.Less than three months earlier, an avalanche in Switzerland claimed the lives of two noted alpine racers, Buddy Werner of the U.S. and Barbi Henneberger of West Germany.

Marie-Claire_Restoux

Marie-Claire Restoux (born 9 April 1968 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) is a French judoka, world champion and Olympic champion. She won the gold medal in the half lightweight division at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.She received a gold medal at the 1995 World Judo Championships, and again in 1997, and a bronze medal in 1999.

Sylvain_Guillaume

Sylvain Guillaume (born 6 July 1968 in Champagnole, Jura) is a former French nordic combined skier who competed during the 1990s. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville he won a silver in the 15 km individual, then a bronze in the 4 x 5 km team competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. He also won a bronze medal in the 15 km individual at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.