Stéphane Tardieu (born 16 March 1970) is a
French
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adaptive rower who competes in international elite competitions, he started rowing when he was fourteen before switching to
rugby
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Sport
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** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
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, he went back to rowing in 2007 after losing a leg in a hunting accident two years previously. He competes in the
double sculls
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with his training partner
Perle Bouge
Perle Bouge (born 1 December 1977 in Rennes) is a French disabled rower, with a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, and a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.
Biography
Bouge participated in the trunk and ...
, they have both won two
Paralympic
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medals and five
World
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medals.
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1970 births
Living people
Rowers from Paris
French male rowers
Paralympic rowers for France
Rowers at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Rowers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
World Rowing Championships medalists for France