Jean-Christophe Rolland (born 3 July 1968, in Condrieu) is a French

competition rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing i ...

and Olympic champion. Rolland won a gold medal in

coxless pair A coxless pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two rowers, who propel the boat with Sweep (rowing), sweep oars. The crew consists of a pair of rowers, each having one oar, one on the stroke (rowin ...

at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

.Profile: Jean-Christophe Rolland
''sports.reference.com'' (Retrieved on 17 December 2008) He succeeded Denis Oswald as President of FISA, the

International Rowing Federation World Rowing, also known as the World Rowing Federation (former abbreviation FISA; french: Fédération internationale des sociétés d'aviron), is the international governing body for rowing. Its current president is Jean-Christophe Rolland w ...

, in a ceremony held at

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, Switzerland, in July 2014. He was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2017.

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* 1968 births Living people People from Condrieu French male rowers Olympic rowers of France Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics International Olympic Committee members World Rowing Championships medalists for France Rowing officials Sportspeople from Rhône (department) 20th-century French people 21st-century French people {{France-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub