Frédéric Dufour

Frédéric Dufour
Full name	Frédéric Dufour
nation	France
birthday	2nd February 1976
place of birth	Lyon ,  France
size	178 cm
Weight	71 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / Skull
society	Aviron Union Nautique de Villefranche
National squad	since 1994
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 2 × 2 × Nations Cup (U23 World Cup) 0 × 1 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 2004 Athens Lightweight double scull  World championships bronze 1996 Glasgow Lightweight - quadruple sculls bronze 2006 Eton Lightweight double scull silver 2009 Poznan Lightweight double scull silver 2010 Hamilton Lightweight quad scull  U23 world championships silver 1996 Hazewinkel Lightweight one  Junior World Championships gold 1994 Munich Double scull
Last change: September 14, 2015

Frédéric Dufour (* 2. February 1976 in Lyon , France ) is a former French lightweight - rowers .

Career

At a young age Dufour started once at the world championships of juniors in the open weight class, he won the gold medal in the double scull . After advancing to the senior class, he rowed at the Nations Cup , the then unofficial world championships for the U23 age group, to fourth place in 1995 and silver in 1996 in one of the lightweights. In the Olympic year he was also allowed to compete in the world championships of the non-Olympic boat classes in the lightweight double quad in the open age group, where he won the bronze medal.

At the then new rowing world cup , Dufour started for the first time in 1997 and thus made the final leap into the adult class. The world championships of the same year on the French Lac d'Aiguebelette he finished in ninth place in the Olympic lightweight double scull. After a 10th place in the following year at the World Championships in Cologne , he initially took a two-year break from international rowing.

The Olympic cycle in Athens was changeable for Dufour. After he started in the single at the World Cups and finished 6th at the World Championships in 2001 , he was unable to qualify for this boat class in 2002. Instead he went with Fabien Tilliet in the no-helmsman class two in the lightweights competition at the World Championships in Seville and came in 12th. From 2003 he was again eligible for the Olympic double scull scull and rowed to fourth place in the 2003 World Cup with Fabrice Moreau in the run-up to the Athens Summer Olympics . In Athens, Dufour then started with Pascal Touron at the 2004 Summer Olympics . By winning the silver medal behind the Poles Tomasz Kucharski and Robert Sycz , he achieved the greatest success of his career in this combination.

After the games, Dufour's form remained strong at first, at the 2005 World Championships in Japan he reached the final with Arnaud Pornin and took fifth place. A year later , he and his partner from 2003, Fabrice Moreau, even won the bronze medal in an easy double scull. In the pre-Olympic year 2007 at the World Championships in Munich , however, the duo slipped to 10th place. With his new partner Maxime Goisset , Dufour made a strong start to the 2008 Olympic season by achieving two podium finishes at the Rowing World Cup. On the regatta course in the Olympic rowing and canoeing park Shunyi , however, the French duo only managed to finish 11th overall at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. In the same season, the two also finished fourth at the European Championships in Athens.

Dufour remained loyal to top-class sport after the Beijing Games and started the 2009 season with the young rower Jérémie Azou in an easy double scull. By winning the silver medal at the 2009 World Rowing Championships , he achieved his best placement at world championships. At the European Championships of the same year he started in one of the open weight classes and finished 5th in the final. For the 2010 World Cup , Dufour slipped out of the Olympic double sculls, but was then able to win another World Championship silver medal in the easy double sculls. After that he was able to place himself again with a 7th place at the 2011 World Championships , but then failed to qualify for the London Summer Olympics in the Olympic season .

He retired from his active career in 2012 at the age of 36, having competed twice in the Olympic Games and twelve times in the World Rowing Championships.

Dufour started for the Aviron Union Nautique de Villefranche association in his hometown of Villefranche-sur-Saône , which he joined in 1985. With a height of 1.78 m, his competition weight was around 70 kg.

Web links

• Profile at the French Rowing Federation
• Frédéric Dufour at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Frédéric Dufour in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )