Cédric Berrest

Cédric Berrest
Full name	Cédric Berrest
nation	France
birthday	April 2, 1985
place of birth	Clermont-Ferrand ,  France
size	191 cm
Weight	94 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / Skull , belt
society	Niort Aviron Club Aviron Toulousain
National squad	since 2002
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 2 × 2 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championship 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games bronze 2008 Beijing Double fours  World championships silver 2007 Munich Double fours silver 2009 Poznan Double scull bronze 2010 Hamilton Double scull bronze 2011 Bled Double scull  European championships gold 2010 Montemor-o-Velho Double scull  Junior World Championships bronze 2002 Trakai One
Last change: September 15, 2015

Cédric Berrest (born April 2, 1985 in Clermont-Ferrand , France ) is a French rower .

Career

Berrest began rowing in 1999, and only three years later he qualified for the world championships in the junior age group U19 . In one , he won a bronze medal in Trakai, Lithuania. The following year he was able to qualify again in the single, but the Junior World Championships on the Olympic regatta course in Athens were heavily influenced by unfavorable wind conditions and Berrest took 8th place. Hope runs and finals were over a distance of 1000 m instead of the usual 2000 m carried out.

In the Olympic season Berrest was able to get into the French national team in the open age group. In the World Cup regattas , he qualified for the double quad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The team with Xavier Philippe , Berrest, Jonathan Coeffic and Frédéric Perrier was the only one of the 13-boat field not to reach the semifinals and thus finished last in the competition.

Berrest then continued to concentrate on the French quadruple sculls and competed in this boat class at the 2005 World Championships . With 5th place, the result was far better than in the previous Olympic season. At the 2006 World Championships , Berrest was only able to finish 10th in the British Eton with the double scull after good results had previously been achieved at the World Cup. In the pre-Olympic year at the World Championships in Munich, however, the same team as last year - Coeffic, Berrest, Julien Bahain and Jean-David Bernard - won the World Cup silver medal in the quadruple scull. The team was able to keep its shape with a reshuffle ( Pierre-Jean Peltier for Bernard) and win the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Then Berrest switched to the double scull with Julien Bahain in the new Olympic cycle . The duo harmonized well and won silver at the 2009 World Championships , gold at the 2010 European Championships in Portugal, and bronze at the 2010 and 2011 World Championships . The 2012 Olympic season was disappointing, however: after three finals in the World Cup in double sculls, Berrest and Bahain were only able to place 10th at the 2012 Summer Olympics . Together with Matthieu Androdias and Pierre-Jean Peltier in the quadruple scull , the participation in the European Championships in Varese, Italy , which followed shortly afterwards, was not a success with 11th place.

Berrest initially suspended a season after these failures and then switched to the belt area . With the French eighth he reached fifth place at the European Championships in 2014 and 2015 and at the World Championships in 2014 . In their own country at the 2015 World Cup on Lac d'Aiguebelette , on the other hand, it was only enough for the French large boat to finish 10th, so that direct qualification for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was missed.

Berrest starts for the clubs Niort Aviron Club and Aviron Toulousain . At a height of 1.91 m, his competition weight is around 94 kg.

Web links

• Cédric Berrest at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Cédric Berrest in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )