Hélène Noesmoen (born 31 December 1992) is a French

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who competes in the

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class. She won the women's events at the 2021 IQFoil World Championships and the 2020, 2021 and 2022

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. Noesmoen also won the RS:X event at the 2018 Sailing World Cup event in Miami, and multiple junior world championships.

Personal life

Noesmoen is from

Les Sables-d'Olonne Les Sables-d'Olonne (; French meaning: "The Sands of Olonne"; Poitevin: ''Lés Sablles d'Oloune'') is a seaside town in Western France, on the Atlantic Ocean. A subprefecture of the department of Vendée, Pays de la Loire, it has the administ ...

, France. She started

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at a young age, initially with an RS:X. Her father Yves runs (National School of Sailing and Water Sports), and her two brothers and one sister have also won European windsurfing medals. Noesmoen has a degree in

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and

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from the US

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Career

Noesmoen won junior championships in the Techno 293 class in 2007 and 2008, and in the RS:X classification in 2012. She won the women's RS:X competition at the 2018 Sailing World Cup event in

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. In 2020, she started training in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...

, where the sailing events at the

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will be held. That year she won the Formula Foil World Championships, and the

. Noesmoen won the 2021 IQFoil World Championships, which was the first time the competition had been held. She also won the 2021 IQFoil European Championships. In 2022, she won the IQFoil European Championships for the third time. That year, she also won the IQFoil event at the 2022 Mediterranean Games, the Trofeo Princesa Sofia competition, the

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, and the Semaine Olympique Française competition. Going into the IQFoil World Championships event in

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, Noesmoen was unbeaten in 2022. She finished 15th in the championships, and did not win any individual events.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Noesmoen, Helene 1992 births Living people French windsurfers French female sailors (sport) People from Les Sables-d'Olonne Sportspeople from Vendée 21st-century French women