Elly Lefort (born 4 November 1987 in

Saint-Nazaire Saint-Nazaire (; ; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France, department in western France, in traditional Brittany. The town has a major harbour on the right bank of the Loire estuary, near the Atlantic Oc ...

) is a

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and Monegasque

bobsledder Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsle ...

. He competed for Monaco until the 2013–14 season, before switching to compete for France.FIBT Profile: ELLY Lefort

Lefort competed at the

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for France. He teamed with driver

Loïc Costerg Loic Costerg (born 9 May 1987 in Moûtiers) is a French bobsledder.FIBT Profile
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and

Romain Heinrich Romain Heinrich (born 30 January 1990 in Colmar) is a French bobsledder. Heinrich competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for France. He teamed with driver Loic Costerg in the two-man event, finishing 20th, and in the France-1 sled with Costerg, ...

in the France-1 sled in the four-man event, finishing 17th. As of April 2014, his best showing at the

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is 20th, coming in the two-man event in

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. Lefort made his

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debut in November 2009. As of April 2014, his best finish is 8th, in a pair of events in 2010-11.

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* 1987 births Living people Olympic bobsledders for France Sportspeople from Saint-Nazaire Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics French male bobsledders 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-bobsleigh-bio-stub