Xavier Revil

Xavier Revil
Personal information
Full nameXavier Revil
Nationality France
Born (1971-05-28) 28 May 1971 (age 53)
Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+12 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sailing career
ClassMultihull
ClubSociété des Régates à Voile d'Annecy
CoachPhilippe Neiras
Medal record
Men's sailing
Representing France
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2005 La Rochelle Tornado

Xavier Revil (born 28 May 1971) is a French sailor, who specialized in the multihull (Tornado) class.[1] Together with his partner Christophe Espagnon, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the mixed multihull catamaran for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant eleventh position.[2] Outside his Olympic career, he and Espagnon gave the home crowd a further reason to celebrate with a bronze-medal finish at the 2005 Tornado Worlds in La Rochelle.[3] A member of the local sailing regatta club in his current hometown Annecy (French: Société des Régates à Voile d'Annecy), Revil trained most of his competitive sporting career under the tutelage of his personal coach Philippe Neiras.[4]

Revil competed for the French sailing squad, as a 37-year-old skipper in the Tornado class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Building up their Olympic selection, he and crew member Espagnon finished a credible sixth in the golden fleet phase to lock one of the eleven quota places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.[5] The French duo started the series with a fantastic top-four mark on the second race; however, a broken halyard lock before race 4 and a wave of unimpressive tenths towards the final stretch bumped Revil and Espagnon out of the medal hunt to eleventh overall by a slight margin, amassing 69 net points.[2][6][7]

References

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Xavier Revil". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Voile. Tornado : les Espagnols champions olympiques" [Sailing. Tornado: the Spaniards become Olympic champions] (in French). Ouest-France. 21 August 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Hagara Claims Bullet But Echavarri Leads". World Sailing. 16 June 2005. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Xavier Revil et Christophe Espagnon remportent le championnat Nord Américain" [Xavier Revil and Christophe Espagnon won the North American championship title] (in French). French Sailing Federation. 2 March 2006. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Xavier Revil et Christophe Espagnon sélectionnés pour les JO en Tornado" [Xavier Revil and Christophe Espagnon were selected for the Olympics in Tornado] (in German). French Sailing Federation. 28 September 2007. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Spaniards Stay Ahead As Tornados Sail In Troubled Waters". World Sailing. 17 August 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Beijing 2008: Open Tornado Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 11 July 2012.