Youssef Akrout

Akrout was born in Tunis and represented Sport Nautique Bizertin.^[1] After winning the Laser event at the 2011 All-Africa Games, Akrout was the only Tunisian sailing competitor at the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[2][3] He competed at the 2012 in the men's Laser class.^[4] Akrout finished 45th.^[1]

He gained a place for Tunisia in the men's Laser event at the 2016 Olympics through his performance at the 2014 World Championship.^[5] He also won the 2015 African Laser and Laser Radial Championships.^[6] In the 2016 Summer Olympics, he finished 34th in the Laser event.^[7]

In 2016, he sailed his Laser dinghy from Haouaria in Tunisia to Mazara del Vallo on Sicily in 17 hours and 34 minutes.^[8][9] Akrout then took on a coaching career, first in Stavanger Seilforening of Norway, then in Chicago, before he became head coach of Stavanger Seilforening.^[10]

• Youssef Akrout at World Sailing

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