Jean-Christophe Bette

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Jean-Christophe Bette (* 3. December 1977 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) is a former French lightweight - rowers .

Career

The 1.86 m bed from Sport Nautique Compiègnois won the Nations Cup in 1997 and 1998 in the lightweight four without a helmsman , the then unofficial U-23 rowing world championships. At the 1998 World Championships without age limit, he won together with Vincent Montabonel in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman. The following year he finished fourth at the 1999 World Championships together with Jean-Baptiste Dupy . In 2000, Bette switched to the Olympic boat class lightweight foursome, and the French lightweight foursome won the World Cup in Munich and Lucerne, making it the favorite for the season's highlight. At the Olympic Games in Sydney , the French team with Xavier Dorfman at the loft, Jean-Christophe Bette, Yves Hocdé and bowman Laurent Porchier won ahead of the Australian rowers and the Danes. At the 2001 World Rowing Championships, the lightweight foursome won the bronze medal in the line-up for Olympic victory; all four rowers also sat in the French lightweight eighth and received the gold medal in this boat class. After the World Championships in 2001, Porchier and Hogdé ended their careers and Dorfman also stepped significantly shorter.

At the rowing world championships in 2002 , Bette sat as a batsman with Franck Bussiere , Pascal Touron and Erwan Peron from the gold eighth of the previous year in the new lightweight foursome, which took sixth place. After a messed up season in 2003, in which the Olympic qualification for 2004 failed, Bette took fifth place in the uncontrolled lightweight two-man at the 2004 World Rowing Championships together with Erwan Peron. In 2005, Bette was part of the crew in the completely new lightweight foursome 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 of them moved to eighth for the world championships and finished fourth in this boat class ten years after Bette's world championship title. At the end of his career, Bette and Tilliet once again won the world championship bronze in a pair in 2012 .

International medals

(OS = Olympic Games; WM = World Championships; EM = European Championships)

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personal data
SURNAME Bette, Jean-Christophe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rower
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Germain-en-Laye