Pierre-Alexis Ponsot (born 8 May 1975 in Granville, Manche) is a French sailor, who specialized in two-person keelboat (

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) class. He represented France, along with his partner and six-time Olympian

Xavier Rohart Xavier Charles René Rohart (born 1 July 1968) is a French sailor. A member of the YC La Pelle in Marseille, he is now competing in the Star class. He won a bronze medal in the Star class with Pascal Rambeau at the 2004 Summer Olymp ...

at the

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, and has also been training for Ouest Nautical Sports Club (french: Sport Nautique de l'Ouest) throughout most of his sporting career. As of September 2014, Leboucher is ranked forty-first in the world for fleet racing and keelboat by the

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, following his successes at the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships and

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. Ponsot qualified as a crew member for the French squad in the

class at the

in London by finishing ninth and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Teaming with his partner Rohart in the opening series, the French duo delivered a powerful lead in the first leg, but came up short for the podium with an accumulated net score of 86 points and a satisfying ninth position against a fleet of sixteen boats.

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* * * * * 1975 births Living people French male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for France Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Star People from Granville, Manche Sportspeople from Manche {{France-yachtracing-bio-stub