Sophie Marie Reine Kamoun (born 8 June 1967) is a French former

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

who competed in the

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Early life and Olympics

Kamoun, the daughter of French Olympic swimmer Marc Kamoun, was born on 8 June 1967. She joined swimming club CS Clichy 92 and saw success in 1983 where she won the French 50 m freestyle and a French relay title. She later competed at the

1983 Mediterranean Games The IX Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 1983), commonly known as the 1983 Mediterranean Games, were the 9th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in Casablanca, Morocco, from 3 to 17 September 1983, ...

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

and won the 100 m freestyle and the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. Kamoun represented France at the

. She qualified for the B Final in the 100 m freestyle and finished 13th overall. She also was on France's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team and finished 8th.

Post-Olympic life

Kamoun enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was a student-athlete on the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's swim team. She competed with the Gauchos from 1987 to 1989 and was named a two-time All-American as part of the Gauchos 200 and 800 freestyle relay teams. In 1993, Kamoun retired from individual swims and was credited with 26 French swimming titles throughout her career. The following year, Francis Luyce, the president of the French Swimming Federation, brought Kamoun on to handle communications. She later became a communications director at Nike, Inc. in France. Kamoun was awarded the Knight rank of the Ordre national du Mérite in October 2013. She has stayed involved with swimming, leading a press agency and working with

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, Fantine Lesaffre, Mehdy Metella, and Maxime Grousset. She has worked to teach children how to swim.

Personal life

Kamoun met Stephen Roche, the

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winner, at the

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and they later began a relationship. The couple moved to Paris in summer of 2002 and live with Kamoun's son from a previous relationship.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kamoun, Sophie 1967 births Living people French female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for France Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 1983 Mediterranean Games Swimmers at the 1991 Mediterranean Games UC Santa Barbara Gauchos women's swimmers French expatriate swimmers in the United States 20th-century French women 21st-century French women