Guillaume Raineau

Guillaume Raineau
Full name	Guillaume Raineau
nation	France
birthday	June 29, 1986
place of birth	Nantes ,  France
size	187 cm
Weight	68 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / belt
society	Cercle de l'Aviron de Nantes
National squad	since 2006
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 0 × 1 × 2 ×
Olympic games bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro Lightweight foursome without  World championships bronze 2015 Aiguebelette Lightweight foursome without  European championships bronze 2013 Seville Lightweight foursome without bronze 2014 Belgrade Lightweight foursome without silver 2015 Poznan Lightweight foursome without
Last change: August 11, 2016

Guillaume Raineau (* 29. June 1986 in Nantes , France ) is a French lightweight - rowers .

Career

Guillaume Raineau began rowing in 1999. As a lightweight, he was denied participation in the Junior World Championships because there are no competitions in this weight class. In the U23 age group, Raineau competed twice in the world championships in 2006 and 2007, he was able to reach the finals twice without winning a medal.

In 2007, Raineau also started for the first time in the Rowing World Cup in the easy two-man and the easy four-man. Despite mixed results, he was nominated together with Vincent Faucheux for the world championships in Munich , where the duo took fourth place with a gap of 0.28 s on the bronze rank. At the European Championships of the same year in Poznan, Raineau was allowed to start in an Olympic easy four-man, where he finished seventh with a junior team.

In the Olympic year, Raineau moved up to the top French team in the light belt division, he successfully competed in the Rowing World Cup with Franck Solforosi , Jean-Christophe Bette and Fabien Tilliet and was nominated with these teammates for the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Fourth place was achieved there, behind the medalists from Denmark, Poland and Canada. At the European Championships a few weeks later, Raineau led a new French team as a batsman in an easy foursome to another fourth place.

In the new Olympic cycle, he initially managed to firmly establish himself in the easy foursome. At the 2009 World Championships in Poznan, he and his team finished fourth, the 2010 European Championships and the World Championships of the same year with a sixth and seventh place less successfully. In the pre-Olympic year 2011, the team with Raineau slipped to 10th place overall at the World Championships in Bled and only barely qualified for the Olympic rowing regatta in London. Raineau, however, did not manage to qualify for this team in 2012, so he could not start in London. Instead, he rowed to seventh place in the lightweight single at the World Championships for the non-Olympic boat classes in Plovdiv, Bulgaria .

Raineau continued his career thereafter and pushed back into the Olympic easy foursome in the 2013 season. The newly formed team with Thomas Baroukh , Augustin Mouterde , Raineau and Franck Solforosi first won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Seville and later took fourth place at the World Championships in South Korea. At the European Championships in 2014 , the same team was able to defend the bronze medal from the previous year. At the World Championships later that year, Baroukh and Mouterde were replaced by Clément Duret and Théophile Onfroy . The team again reached the ungrateful fourth place. In the pre-Olympic season 2015, the light French four-man with the line-up of Solforosi, Baroukh, Colard Thibault and Raineau rowed to silver at the European championships and bronze at the world championships in their own country. A year later, at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and at the 2015 World Championships, the Swiss won ahead of the Danes and the French. For his medal win, he received the Knight's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite on November 30, 2016 .

Raineau starts for the association Cercle de l'Aviron de Nantes in his hometown. At a height of 1.87 m, his competition weight is around 68 kg.

Web links

• Guillaume Raineau at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Guillaume Raineau in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Décret du 30 November 2016 portant promotion et nomination. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. November 30, 2016, accessed February 21, 2020 (French).