Julien Bruno Paul Bahain (born 20 April 1986) is a rower of French/Canadian origin. He competed at the

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, where he won a bronze medal in the quadruple sculls with Jonathan Coeffic, Pierre-Jean Peltier and

Cédric Berrest Cédric Jacques Henri Berrest (born 2 April 1985 in Toulouse) is a French rower. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beij ...

. In 2014, he decided to retire from the French rowing team to row for Canada. In 2013, he rowed across the

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with Patrick Favre. It took them 49 days to row from

Tarfaya Tarfaya ( - ''Ṭarfāya''; ) is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital Rabat, and around 100 km from La ...

(

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) to Tartane (

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). In June 2016, he was officially named to Canada's 2016 Olympic team.

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