This is the French sports stars who lost their lives – Aftenbladet.no

Two of them have been “the year’s athlete” in France.

France lost some of its greatest sports heroes Monday. Three French athletes were among the ten who were killed when two helicopters collided in lufa during a TV recording northern Argentina.

Florence Arthaud (57)

The sailor Florence Arthaud has a long list of achievements and lived a dramatic life. Already at age 17, she was involved in a serious car accident in which she received major damage. She spent over two years to be recovered.

Her perhaps greatest achievements came in 1990, when she won the Route du Rhum. It is a transatlantic regatta for solo sailors between Brittany in France and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean. Athaud completed regatta of 14 days, 10 hours and 8 minutes. She is the only woman to have won the competition.

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The performance made her in 1990, the sports newspaper L ‘ Equipe price Champions des champions français, which goes to the year’s strongest sporting achievement by a French man.

Also let Transat ‘Lorient-St-Barth, another transatlantic sailing competition, she has strong performance when paired with different partners .

Arthaud released an autobiography in 2009, where she was open about big alcohol problems and personal crises towards the end of their sporting careers. She lost sails license and had difficulty attracting sponsors.

In 2011, she successfully in accident when she fell overboard during a solo sailing but had headlamp and waterproof satellite phone with him. Thus she called for help. Conscious but strongly refrigerated, she was flown to hospital in Bastia, Corsica.

Camille Muffat (25)

swimmers Camille Muffat merits may be easier to identify with the Norwegians. Muffat is the reigning Olympic champion at 400 meters off from London. She took silver at the half distance and bronze in the 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay. She has a total of 18 Olympic and World Championship medals (short- and long tract).

Muffat also had the world record on the two longest distances on STOL, but lost both to Mireia Belmonte in August 2013.

After Olympic performance in London was Camille Muffat voted the female athlete in France in 2012.

Already 1st January last year, at the age of 24 years, Camille Muffat appointed Knight of the French Legion of Honour, the mildest degree of France’s highest award.

She was a specialist in frisvømming but also competed in the medley.

Camille Muffat was born in Nice and also competed for the local swim club Olympique Nice natation .

Alexis Vastine (28)

The boxer Alexis Vastine took bronze at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 the age of 22, after a very controversial semifinaletap for the later winner Manuel Felix Diaz. Two years later he took silver at the European Championships. Vastine continued to fight as an amateur, but in the Olympics in London in 2012, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals, also under disputed circumstances.

Vastine was in the French armed forces, sports regiment 121. Regiment and all four gold from military VM.

He competed in easy weltervekt- and welterweight classes.

His death in Argentina was the culmination of a cruel period for his family. Sister Celine, she also cans, died in a car accident in France two months ago.

Sources: Wikipedia, AFP, L’Equipe