Charline Picon

Charline Picon medal table
Charline Picon (2016)
sailing
France
Olympic games
gold	Rio de Janeiro 2016	Windsurfing
World championships
bronze	Weymouth 2009	Windsurfing
bronze	Kerteminde 2010	Windsurfing
gold	Santander 2014	Windsurfing
silver	Aarhus 2018	Windsurfing
silver	Sorrento 2020	Windsurfing

Charline Picon (born December 23, 1984 in Royan ) is a French windsurfer .

successes

Charline Picon took part in two Olympic Games . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , she finished eighth with 89 points. The games four years later in Rio de Janeiro were much more successful for Picon: thanks to a second place in the final medal race , she finished the regatta with 64 total points in first place ahead of Chen Peina and Stefanija Jelfutina and thus became Olympic champion . At world championships , she first secured bronze medals in 2009 and 2010, before winning the title in Santander in 2014 . In 2018 it took second place in Aarhus and in 2020 in Sorrento . Between 2013 and 2016, Picon was three times European champion.

For her Olympic victory, Picon received the Knight's Cross of the Legion of Honor at the end of 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Charline Picon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Charline Picon in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Charline Picon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Décret du 30 November 2016 portant promotion et nomination. December 1, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2020 (French).