Thomas Baroukh

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Thomas Baroukh, 2015

Thomas Baroukh (* 15. December 1987 in Le Chesnay ) is a French lightweight - rowers .

Athletic career

The 1.83 m tall Baroukh took fourth place at the U23 World Championships in 2009 with the lightweight four-man without a helmsman . At the world championships in the adult class in the same year he competed with the lightweight eighth and reached fifth place. In 2010 he and Nicolas Moutton took third place in the rowing world cup in Lucerne in the lightweight two-man without helmsman . In 2011 he returned to the world championships with the lightweight eighth and rowed to fourth place. In 2012 Baroukh sat in the lightweight four without a helmsman, who reached the A final in all three World Cup regattas. At the Olympic regatta in Eton , Thomas Baroukh, Franck Solforosi , Nicolas Moutton and Fabrice Moreau took seventh place as winners of the B final. At the 2012 European Championships , which took place after the Olympic Games , Baroukh and Moreau came fifth in the lightweight two-man.

The following year the European Championships took place from the end of May to the beginning of June, the new French lightweight foursome with Franck Solforosi, Guillaume Raineau , Augustin Mouterde and Thomas Baroukh won the bronze medal behind the boats from Denmark and the Czech Republic. At the 2013 World Championships in Korea , the four-man came fourth with the same line-up. At the beginning of the 2014 season, Solforosi, Raineau, Mouterde and Baroukh won bronze at the European Championships as in the previous year . At the 2014 World Championships , Mouterde and Baroukh rowed to the silver medal in the lightweight two-man. In 2015, the French four-man with Thibault Colard , Guillaume Raineau, Thomas Baroukh and Franck Solforosi competed at the European Championships and received silver behind the Swiss. At the World Championships in front of a home crowd on Lac d'Aiguebelette, the Swiss won ahead of the Danes, while the French four-man won the bronze medal. A year later, the Swiss won again at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , 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 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décret du 30 November 2016 portant promotion et nomination. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. November 30, 2016, accessed February 21, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Baroukh, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rower
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Chesnay