Tony Estanguet

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Born

:06 May,1978

Age

:41 years, 3 months

Location

:Pau, Aquitaine, France

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About Tony Estanguet

Tony Estanguet (born 6 May 1978 in Pau, France) is a French slalom canoeist. He has competed since the mid-1990s.

Career highlights:

World Championships:

Tony is the son of Henri Estanguet, himself a canoeist who won medals at the Wildwater Canoe World Championships in the 1970s. His elder brother, Patrice Estanguet, won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta

He won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with five golds (C-1: 2006, 2009, 2010; C-1 team: 2005, 2007), six silvers (C-1: 2003, 2005, 2007; C-1 team: 1997, 2003, 2009), and a bronze (C-1 team: 1999).

Olympics:

Estanguet has won three Olympic gold medals in the C-1 event, in 2000, 2004 and 2012. In 2004, he won after the referees very controversially decided to award Michal Martikán a two second penalty which pushed him to second place, only 12 hundredths of a second behind Estanguet.

Estanguet was the flag-bearer for France at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony. He finished in the 9th position (out of 12 competitors; only the first eight would qualify for the final) in the semi-finals of the C-1 event and was thus eliminated from the final.

At the 2012 London Summer Olympics, he became the first French Olympian to win three gold medals in the same Olympic discipline.

World Cup:

Estanguet won the overall World Cup title in C-1 in 2003 and 2004. He also won a total of ten medals at the European Championships (4 golds, 3 silvers and 3 bronzes).