Xavier Revil
French sailor
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Xavier Revil (born 28 May 1971) is a French sailor, who specialized in the multihull (Tornado) class.[1] Together with his partner Christophe Espagnon, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the mixed multihull catamaran for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant eleventh position.[2] Outside his Olympic career, he and Espagnon gave the home crowd a further reason to celebrate with a bronze-medal finish at the 2005 Tornado Worlds in La Rochelle.[3] A member of the local sailing regatta club in his current hometown Annecy (French: Société des Régates à Voile d'Annecy), Revil trained most of his competitive sporting career under the tutelage of his personal coach Philippe Neiras.[4]
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| Full name | Xavier Revil | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | France | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 May 1971 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Class | Multihull | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Société des Régates à Voile d'Annecy | ||||||||||||||
| Coach | Philippe Neiras | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Revil competed for the French sailing squad, as a 37-year-old skipper in the Tornado class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Building up their Olympic selection, he and crew member Espagnon finished a credible sixth in the golden fleet phase to lock one of the eleven quota places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.[5] The French duo started the series with a fantastic top-four mark on the second race; however, a broken halyard lock before race 4 and a wave of unimpressive tenths towards the final stretch bumped Revil and Espagnon out of the medal hunt to eleventh overall by a slight margin, amassing 69 net points.[2][6][7]
