Jessie Kampman (born 16 May 2000) is a French

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surfer. She has won silver medals at the European championships and in 2024 she won a world bronze medal.

Life

Kampman was born in 2000classification
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in Spain. She took silver as she was beaten by Nolot in a contest where the winfs were so strong that they used quite small kites. Nolot was considered not the fastest but the contestant with the best tactics ober the six days of the contest. It was a complete French podium finish with

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in third place. At the end of 2023 she was in Mauritius winning the African Kite Foil Championship. The leading African at the event was the local Julie Paturau who gained the title of African Champion Kite Foiler and a place in the

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. In 2024 she joined the woman French Orient Express – L’Oréal Racing Team led by

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that will compete in Barcelona at an inaugural event of the America's cup. That February she was in the Canary Islands competing at the first Fuerteventura KiteFoil International Open Cup.

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won the event but Kampman was second with the Italian

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in third place. After the 2024 World championships event in May in Hyères, the French colleague Lauriane Nolot was in the overall lead at that time with Kampman in second position.

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was dropped to fourth place overall after

's win at the event, moved her to third place. On the following day Aldridge moved to second place ahead of Kampman. The final race saw

in fourth position behind Lauriane Nolot, the British surfer

and Kampman was third.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kampman, Jessie 2000 births Living people French kitesurfers 21st-century French lawyers Alumni of the University of Southampton Sportspeople from Crawley