Thierry Peponnet (born 7 September 1959) is a French

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the s ...

and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the

470 class The 470 (Four-Seventy) is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with a centreboard, Bermuda rig, and centre sheeting. Equipped with a spinnaker, trapeze and a large sail-area-to-weight ratio, it is designed to plane easily, and good teamwork is ...

at the

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, together with

Luc Pillot Luc Pillot (born 10 July 1959) is a French sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 class at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Thierry Peponnet. They received bronze medals in 1984. Pillot won the yacht ...

. They received bronze medals in 1984. He was involved with

Le Défi Le Défi was a French America's Cup team that competed in the 1992, 1995, 2000 and 2003 Louis Vuitton Cups and in the first few Acts of the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup. After 2005 Le Défi supported China Team. History Le Défi BTT competed in the 200 ...

in the

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and

2000 Louis Vuitton Cup The 5th Louis Vuitton Cup was held in Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in t ...

, and Areva Challenge at the

2007 Louis Vuitton Cup The 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup held in Valencia, Spain, from April 16 to June 6 was the event used to select the challenger for the 2007 America's Cup. Eleven potential challengers competed in the competition which consisted of two round robins, ...

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* * * * 1959 births Living people French male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for France Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in sailing Sailors at the 1984 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 1988 Summer Olympics – 470 Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics 2007 America's Cup sailors 2000 America's Cup sailors 1995 America's Cup sailors 470 class world champions World champions in sailing for France {{France-yachtracing-bio-stub