Gildas Morvan (born 31 July 1968) is a sailor from

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...

. who represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in

Savannah A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close. The open canopy allows sufficient light to reach the ground to ...

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as crew member in the

Soling The Soling is an open keelboat that holds the World Sailing " International class" status. The class was used from the 1972 Olympics (Kiel) until the 2000 Olympics (Sydney) as " Open Three Person Keelboat". Besides the Olympic career of the So ...

. With helmsman

Marc Bouet Marc Bouet (born 7 May 1951 in Nantes) is a sailor from France, who represented his country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain as helmsman in the Soling. With crew members Fabrice Levet and Alain Pointet they took the 15th pla ...

and fellow crew member

Sylvain Chtounder Sylvain Chtounder (born 1 April 1964) is a sailor from Marseilles, France. who represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Savannah, United States as crew member in the Soling. With helmsman Marc Bouet and fellow crew member Gildas ...

they took the 11th place.

References

Living people 1968 births Sailors at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Soling Olympic sailors for France Sportspeople from Pretoria French male sailors (sport) {{France-yachtracing-bio-stub