Stéphane Locas
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Stéphane Locas |
| Nickname | Napoleon |
| Nationality |  Canada |
| Born | 10 January 1981 Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Dinghy |
| Club | Beaconsfield Yacht Club |
| Coach | Marc-André Littée |
Stéphane Locas (born 10 January 1981) is a Canadian former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[1] Together with his partner Oliver Bone, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant twenty-ninth place.[2] A member of Beaconsfield Yacht Club in Montreal, Locas trained throughout his sailing career for the Canadian team under head coach Marc-André Littée.
Locas competed for the Canadian sailing squad, as a skipper in the men's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[3][4] Building up to their Olympic selection, he and crew member Bone finished within the top thirty to secure one of the twenty quota places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.[5] The Canadian duo clearly struggled to catch a vast fleet of 28 other sailing crews from behind under breezy conditions, with marks lower than the top fifteen and a premature start penalty on the seventh leg after ten races, sitting them in last overall with 205 net points.[2][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stéphane Locas". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ a b "Une bonne journée pour Locas et Bone" [A good day for Locas and Bone] (in French). RDS Info. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Event Guide: Men's Two Person Dinghy – 470". World Sailing. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ^ Christie, James (23 July 2008). "Sailors trim down for Beijing". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Locas et Bone en flotte or" [Locas and Bone enter the gold fleet] (in French). RDS Info. 10 June 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
- ^ "Beijing 2008: Men's 470 Class". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
External links
[edit]- Stéphane Locas at World Sailing
- Stéphane Locas at Team Canada
- Stéphane Locas at Olympics.com
- Stéphane Locas at Olympedia
- Stephane Locas at NBC 2008 Olympics website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-07-20)
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