About Emmanuelle Rol
Born 1986. Emmanuelle Rol is a French and Swiss athlete.
Emmanuelle Rol (born 6 August 1986) is a Swiss-born French former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy class. Together with her partner Anne-Sophie Thilo, she was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a lowly seventeenth place. Outside her Olympic career, she collected a total of two medals (a gold and a silver) under each different banner at the European Championships (2008 and 2010). A member of her native Pully's local sailing club , Rol trained most of her sporting career under the federation's head coach for 470, French-born Nicolas Novara.
Rol competed for the Swiss sailing squad, as a skipper in the women's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She and crew member Thilo topped the Swiss Sailing Federation's selection criteria for a coveted spot on the Olympic team, based on their cumulative scores attained in a series of international regattas, including their runner-up finish at the Europeans a few months earlier. The Swiss duo seized their advantage at the initial half of the series by taking the top-ten spots each in races 2 to 4, but a series of unanticipated technical errors towards the final legs pushed both Rol and Thilo to the near end of the fleet, sitting them in a lowly seventeenth overall with 114 net points.
Shortly after the Games, the Swiss duo announced their split from 470.
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Who is Emmanuelle Rol?
French dinghy sailor
When was Emmanuelle Rol born?
Emmanuelle Rol was born on 6 August 1986 in Pully.
What is Emmanuelle Rol's occupation?
Emmanuelle Rol is an athlete.
What nationality is Emmanuelle Rol?
Emmanuelle Rol is French and Swiss.
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