Hélène Noesmoen (born 31 December 1992) is a French

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who competes in the

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class. She won the women's events at the 2021

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and the 2020, 2021 and 2022 IQFoil European Championships. Noesmoen also won the RS:X event at the 2018 Sailing World Cup in Miami, and multiple junior world championships.

Personal life

Noesmoen is from

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, France. She started

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at a young age, initially with an RS:X. Her father Yves runs (National School of Sailing and Water Sports), and her two brothers and one sister have also won European windsurfing medals. Noesmoen has a degree in

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and municipal engineering from the US

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Career

Noesmoen won junior championships in the Techno 293 class in 2007 and 2008, and in the RS:X classification in 2012. She won the women's RS:X competition at the 2018 Sailing World Cup event in

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. In 2020, she started training in

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, where the sailing events at the

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were to be held. That year she won the Formula Foil World Championships, and the IQFoil European Championships. Noesmoen won the 2021

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, which was the first time the competition had been held. She also won the 2021 IQFoil European Championships. In 2022, she won the IQFoil European Championships for the third time. That year, she also won the IQFoil event at the

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, the

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competition, the IQFoil European Championships at

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, and the

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competition. Going into the IQFoil World Championships event in

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, Noesmoen was unbeaten in 2022. She finished 15th in the championships, and did not win any individual events. In February 2024, Noesmoen was selected for the

, where she came 7th.

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at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Noesmoen, Helene 1992 births Living people French windsurfers French female sailors (sport) Sportspeople from Les Sables-d'Olonne 21st-century French sportswomen Olympic sailors for France Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – iQFoil

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