Daniel Fauché

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Daniel Eugène Fauché (born December 22, 1966 in Chantilly ) is a former French rower . In 1996 he won the Olympic silver medal in the four without a helmsman .

Athletic career

The 1.92 m wide Fauché Daniel won in 1983 and 1984 respectively bronze in quadruple sculls at the Junior World Championships . In 1985 he also won bronze in the four-four at the Match des Seniors, a forerunner of the U23 World Championships , followed by gold in 1986. In 1987 he won bronze in the four without a helmsman, in 1988 he took fourth place in the four with a helmsman .

1990 Fauché took part in the four without a helmsman at the World Championships in Tasmania and finished eighth. In 1991 in Vienna he reached fifth place in the four with helmsman. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , the French foursome started with the line-up of Yannick Schulte , Philippe Lot , Daniel Fauché, Jean-Paul Vergnes and helmsman Jean-Pierre Huguet-Balent . The French took second place in the preliminary run and the hope run, and in the final they rowed to fifth place.

In 1993, at the World Championships in Račice u Štětí, the French four-man without a helmsman in the line-up of Daniel Fauché, Philippe Lot, Michel Andrieux and Jean-Christophe Rolland took off and won in front of the boats from Poland and the United States. In 1994 in Indianapolis the same rowers sat in the boat and won silver behind the Italian foursome. In 1995 Bertrand Vecten , Olivier Moncelet rowed with Fauché and Lot to fourth place at the World Championships in Tampere .

At the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 , the French finished third behind the Australians and the Slovenes in the preliminary run. In the semi-finals, the French won ahead of the Italians and Australians, with all three boats crossing the finish line within 0.37 seconds. There was also a tight run-in in the final. Gold went to the Australians, 0.66 seconds ahead of the French Bertrand Vecten, Olivier Moncelet, Daniel Fauché and Gilles Bosquet . The third-placed British and the Slovenes were less than a second behind the French.

In 1997 at the World Championships on Lac d'Aiguebelette, the British won almost four seconds ahead of the French, who competed in the same line-up as in 1996. At the 1998 World Championships in Cologne , François Meurillon , Gilles Bosquet, Daniel Fauché and Anthony Perrot rowed in the French foursome, which won silver 1.38 seconds behind the British; The Italians won bronze just 0.02 seconds behind the French. In 1999 Daniel Fauché finished eleventh with the French eighth at the 1999 World Championships in St. Catharines . 2000 Fauché returned to the four without a helmsman. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Daniel Fauché, Antoine Beghin , Laurent Beghin and Gilles Bosquet missed the A-final and finished seventh as winners of the B-final.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 505
  2. ↑ World championships in four without a helmsman at sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 837
  4. ↑ World Championship Finals 1997 at worldrowing.com
personal data
SURNAME Fauché, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fauché, Daniel Eugène (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rower
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Chantilly