Jean-Baptiste Macquet (born 2 July 1983 in

Dieppe Dieppe (; Norman: ''Dgieppe'') is a coastal commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France. Dieppe is a seaport on the English Channel at the mouth of the river Arques. A regular ferry service runs to N ...

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) is a French

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. In 2010, he won the gold medal at the world rowing championship at Lake Karapiro in New Zealand, rowing in the coxless four, with Julien Desprès, Dorian Mortelette and Germain Chardin. He competed for France at the

2013 World Rowing Championships The 2013 World Rowing Championships were World Rowing Championships that were held from 25 August to 1 September 2013 at Tangeum Lake, Chungju in South Korea. The annual week-long rowing regatta was organized by FISA (the International Rowin ...

in the Men's Eight, finishing in 6th place.

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* * 1983 births Living people French male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for France Sportspeople from Dieppe, Seine-Maritime Olympic rowers of France Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics European Rowing Championships medalists 21st-century French people {{France-rowing-bio-stub