Philippe Boccara
Medal record | ||
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Men's Kayak sprint | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1984 Los Angeles | K-4 1000 m | |
World Championships | ||
1985 Mechelen | K-2 1000 m | |
1987 Duisburg | K-2 10000 m | |
1990 Poznań | K-1 10000 m | |
1991 Paris | K-2 10000 m | |
1987 Duisburg | K-2 1000 m | |
1990 Pozna�� | K-1 1000 m |
Philippe Boccara (born July 6, 1959) is a French-born American sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1970s to the early 2000s (decade). He appeared in six Olympics for France (1980 to 1992) and the United States (1996, 2000).
He won a bronze medal for France in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1984 Olympics with teammates François Barouh, Pascal Boucherit, and Didier Vavasseur.
Boccara also won six medals for the French at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 10000 m: 1990, K-2 1000 m: , K-2 10000 m: , ), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-1 1000 m: 1990).
In 2000, he became the first Kayaker to compete at six Olympics. This was matched four years later by German-born Italian Josefa Idem-Guerrini and German Birgit Fischer. (Idem-Guerrini went on in 2008 to become the first canoeist to compete at seven Olympics.)
He is the first French-born athlete to compete at six Olympics. This was matched by legendary French cyclist Jeannie Longo in 2004 and surpassed by her in 2008.
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References[]
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Philippe Boccara at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1959 births
- Living people
- French male canoeists
- French emigrants to the United States
- Olympic canoeists of France
- Olympic canoeists of the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- American canoeist stubs
- French Olympic medalist stubs
- French canoeist stubs