Fabien Tilliet

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fabien Tilliet (* 3. March 1980 in Annecy ) is a former French lightweight - rowers .

Career

The 1.86 m tall Tilliet took twelfth place in the lightweight two-man without helmsman at the 2002 rowing world championships together with Frédéric Dufour . A year later , the French lightweight four without a helmsman with Jeremy Pouge , Jean-Christophe Bette , Erwan Peron and Fabien Tilliet took fourteenth place and thus missed the Olympic qualification for 2004. At the 2004 World Rowing Championships , which were only in the non-Olympic Boat classes were held, Tilliet was the batsman of the French lightweight eight and won the gold medal in this boat class.

In 2005, Tilliet was part of the crew in the completely new lightweight four-man, which won two World Cup regattas and won the title at the World Championships in Gifu . The following year, the Chinese foursome won the World Championships in Eton , while the French received the silver medal. In 2007 in Munich , the French rowed the silver medal again, this time behind the British. At the 2008 Olympic Games , the boat with Guillaume Raineau took second place for Jeremy Pouge, fourth behind the four from Denmark, Poland and Canada.

In 2009 Fabien Tilliet and Jean-Christophe Bette formed a lightweight two-man without a helmsman who immediately won the title at the World Championships. At the end of the 2009 season, Tilliet and Bette rowed at the European Championships for the title in the uncontrolled lightweight foursome. In 2010, Tilliet and Bette won the title at both the European and World Championships . In 2011 the two moved to eighth for the world championships and finished fourth in this boat class seven years after Tilliet's world championship title. At the end of their careers, Bette and Tilliet once again won the world championship bronze in two-man in 2012 .

Web links