French canoeist

Representing :FranceOlympic Games2000 SydneyC12004 AthensC12012 LondonC1World Championships2005 PenrithC1 team2006 PragueC12007 Foz do IgauçuC1 team2009 La Seu d'UrgellC12010 TacenC11997 Três CoroasC1 team2003 AugsburgC12003 AugsburgC1 team2005 PenrithC12007 Foz do IgauçuC12009 La Seu d'UrgellC1 team1999 La Seu d'UrgellC1 teamEuropean Championships2000 MezzanaC12006 L'Argentière-la-BesséeC12011 La Seu d'UrgellC12011 La Seu d'UrgellC1 team2002 BratislavaC12009 NottinghamC1 team2012 AugsburgC12007 Liptovský MikulášC1 team2010 BratislavaC1 team2012 AugsburgC1 teamJunior World Championships1994 WausauC1 team1996 LipnoC1 teamJunior European Championships1995 Liptovský MikulášC11995 Liptovský MikulášC1 team

Tony Estanguet OLY (born 6 May 1978 in Pau) is a French slalom canoeist and a three-time Olympic champion in C1. He competed at the international level from 1994 to 2012.

Contents

• 1 Racing career
• 2 World Cup individual podiums
• 3 Education
• 4 Family
• 5 Post-racing career & Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Racing career

Tony Estanguet riding for the gold medal at the 2006 World Championships at Troja slalom course in Prague.

Estanguet won three Olympic gold medals in the C1 event in 2000, 2004 and 2012. At the 2004 games in Athens he won the gold medal after a late judges decision to award a 2-second penalty to Michal Martikán.

Estanguet was the flag-bearer for France at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony. He finished in the 9th position (out of 12 compe*ors; only the first eight would qualify for the final) in the semi-finals of the C1 event and was thus eliminated from the final.

At the 2012 London Summer Olympics, he became the first French Olympian to win three gold medals in the same Olympic discipline.

He won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with five golds (C1: 2006, 2009, 2010; C1 team: 2005, 2007), six silvers (C1: 2003, 2005, 2007; C1 team: 1997, 2003, 2009), and a bronze (C1 team: 1999).

Estanguet won the overall World Cup *le in C1 in 2003 and 2004. He also won a total of ten medals at the European Championships (4 golds, 3 silvers and 3 bronzes).

Together with his brother Patrice, he developed the Pau-Pyrénées Whitewater Stadium (opened in 2008) in their home town of Pau.

He announced his retirement on 30 November 2012.

World Cup individual podiums

1 World Championship counting for World Cup points2 European Championship counting for World Cup points3 Pan American Championship counting for World Cup points

Education

Estanguet graduated from French business school ESSEC, specializing in sports marketing.

Family

Tony is the son of Henri Estanguet, himself a canoeist who won medals at the Wildwater Canoe World Championships in the 1970s. His older brother Patrice won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Post-racing career & Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee

In 2012 Estanguet was elected to the IOC Athletes' Commission. He will serve as an IOC member for eight years. He successfully led Paris's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and is serving as the head of the organizing committee for those games.

References

• 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships 12 September 2010 C1 men's final results. – Retrieved 12 September 2010.
• 12 September 2009 final results of the men's C1 team slalom event for the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. – Retrieved 12 September 2009.
• 13 September 2009 final results of the men's C1 event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. – Retrieved 13 September 2009.
• DatabaseOlympics.com profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of fla*er (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)

External links

• Tony Estanguet at the International Canoe Federation