Adrien Hardy

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Adrien Hardy (born July 30, 1978 in Nîmes ) is a French Olympic champion in rowing .

Career

Adrien Hardy started in 1999 for the first time at the World Rowing Championships and finished 21st in the single . In 2000 he switched to the double scull and qualified together with Frédéric Kowal for the Olympic Games in Sydney . There Kowal and Hardy missed the finals and took seventh place as winners of the B final. In 2001 Sébastien Vieilledent came on board for Kowal, Hardy and Vielledent took second place at the World Championships in Lucerne behind the Hungarians Ákos Haller and Tibor Pető . In 2002 the two French only reached the B final and placed seventh. In 2003 Hardy and Vielledent won their first World Cup race in Milan. The 2003 World Rowing Championships were held on the same route, where the two French won ahead of the Italians Rossano Galtarossa and Alessio Sartori . In the 2004 season the World Cup results were quite different, after a tenth place in Poznan, a third place in Munich and a fourth place in Lucerne. At the 2004 Olympic Games, the French won ahead of the Slovenian defending champions Luka Špik and Iztok Čop , while Galtarossa / Sartori received the bronze medal.

In 2005, Hardy competed in the quadruple and finished fifth at the World Championships. In 2006 Jean-Baptiste Macquet and Adrien Hardy formed a new double scull, which won the World Cup in Poznan and was third in Lucerne and Munich. At the rowing world championships in 2006 in Eton Macquet and Hardy won ahead of Špik / Čop. In 2007 the two French took fourth, fifth and sixth place in the World Cup , and at the World Championships in Munich they won silver behind the two Slovenes. In 2008, the World Cup results were similar to those of the previous year, at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 Macquet and Hardy took fifth place. In 2009 Adrien Hardy competed again in a quadruple scull, and the French boat reached fifth place at the 2009 World Rowing Championships .

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personal data
SURNAME Hardy, Adrien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Nîmes