Fabrice Moreau (rower)

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Fabrice Moreau rowing
Full name Fabrice Moreau
nation FranceFrance France
birthday January 11, 1978
place of birth Le CreusotFrance
size 179 cm
Weight 69 kg
Career
discipline Rowing / Skull , belt
society Cercle de l'aviron de Chalon sur Saône
Club Nautique Creusotin
National squad since 1998
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 2 × silver 3 × bronze
European championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
U23 World Cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
FISA logo World championships
bronze 2001 Lucerne Lightweight double scull
bronze 2005 Gifu Lightweight - One
bronze 2006 Eton Lightweight double scull
silver 2008 Ottensheim Lightweight double quad
silver 2015 Aiguebelette Lightweight eight
FISA logo European championships
gold 2009 Brest Lightweight foursome without
FISA logo U23 world championships
gold 1998 Ioannina Lightweight double scull
Last change: September 15, 2015

Fabrice Moreau (* 11. January 1978 in Le Creusot , France ) is a French lightweight - rowers .

Career

Moreau was able to compete as a lightweight rower for the first time at the age of 20 in an international rowing competition. At the Nations Cup 1998, the then unofficial world championships for the U23 age group, he immediately won the gold medal in the lightweight double scull. From the 2000 season he was able to establish himself in the open age group, he made his debut at the Rowing World Cup with a fourth place in the easy single and at the World Championships of the non-Olympic boat classes in Zagreb with 16th place also in the single.

After that he tried constantly to establish himself in the Olympic boat class of the light double two. At the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne, he won a bronze medal with Thibaud Chapelle , but the following year the duo slipped to 15th place at the World Championships in Seville. In the 2003 season, Moreau started with Frédéric Dufour in an easy double scull and finished fourth in the World Cup final . In the 2004 Olympic season he finally slipped out of the easy double scull, he was only able to start in the easy single at the World Championships in Spain, where he finished fifth.

The following year, Moreau also initially rowed in the easy single, he won the bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships in Gifu, Japan. Back in the easy double scull with Dufour, he also won this medal at the World Championships the following year. In the pre-Olympic season 2007 the duo was only able to place themselves on the 10th place of the world championships in Munich, so that Moreau slipped out of the Olympic two and Dufour started with Maxime Goisset in Beijing. However, Moreau won the silver medal in the easy double fours at the 2008 World Championships , and later he finished fourth at the European Championships in Athens.

In the Olympic cycle of the London Games, Moreau tried his hand at oars. He was able to qualify straight away for the Olympic lightweight four without a helmsman and won fourth place at the 2009 World Championships , as well as the European championship title with Jean-Christophe Bette , Fabien Tilliet and Franck Solforosi in Brest in the same year. In 2010 it was only 6th at the European Championships in Portugal and 7th at the World Championships in New Zealand. In the pre-Olympic season, the four-man with 10th place at the rowing world championships also didn't really get going. Nevertheless, Moreau managed to qualify in an easy four for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on the third attempt , where he finished 7th together with Thomas Baroukh , Franck Solforosi and Nicolas Moutton .

Shortly after the games in London, Moreau rowed again to fifth place in an easy double scull at the 2012 European Championships in Varese, Italy. After a long break, he also started in 2015 in the lightweight eighth at the world championships in his own country on Lac d'Aiguebelette and won another silver medal.

Moreau starts for the clubs Cercle de l'aviron de Chalon sur Saône and Club Nautique Creusotin . At a height of 1.79 m, his competition weight is around 69 kg.

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