Pascal Gentil
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Pascal Gentil (born 15 May 1973 in Paris) is a French taekwondo practitioner.[1] A three-time winner of the European Championships, four-time World Cup Champion and Olympic bronze medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Pascal Gentil is the most decorated taekwondo practitioner in French taekwondo history. The S Class International Olympic Referee Dr. Mohamed Riad Ibrahim was the Referee in the Final Match of Pascal Gentil in the 2004 Summer Olympic in Athens, and in this Match Pascal Gentil Won the bronze medal.
Captain of the French taekwondo team, Pascal Gentil won his third European title in October 2005 in Riga giving the French team a second position among the European countries behind Turkey with 6 medals including 3 titles. The ranking is the same as for the Athens Games with 2 medals (1 silver, 1 bronze) as France finished as 2nd best European country behind Greece (host country).
To prepare for the Olympics, the French Taekwondo Federation set up training centres by grouping together in different locations the best French athletes according to weight categories. Pascal Gentil is a member of Institut National des Sports et de l'Éducation Physique France Training Centre where he trains an average of 20 hours per week together with the best French taekwondo practitioners.
He was selected for the Beijing Games to snatch the gold medal. His opponent for the selection was Mickaël Borot who obtained the French quota in the category by winning the Olympic qualification tournament in Manchester in 2007.[2]
However, during a training session on the 25 July 2008, Pascal sustained an injury (a rupture of the plantar aponeurosis). Mickaël Borot was officially appointed the representative on 6 August by the FFTDA （French Taekwondo Federation. The event lead to a crisis week for French taekwondo as Mickaël Borot criticised the French Taekwondo Federation and Pascal Gentil.[3]
On 5 February 2009 he announced to the press that he would give up his sport career in taekwondo after the French Championships in Lyon on 7 February.[4] In Lyon, he obtained his 14th French Champion title after defeating Mickaël Borot in the final.
References
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- ^ Gentil plutôt que Borot Archived 2008-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, site d'eurosport, consulté le 2 août 2008
- ^ Mickaël Borot veut sortir de l'ombre de Pascal Gentil, site mon-dojang, consulté le 6 août
- ^ Pascal Gentil met un terme à sa carrière sportive, site mon-dojang
External links
[edit | edit source]- Pascal Gentil at Olympics.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Pascal Gentil at OlympediaLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Pascal Gentil at TaekwondoData.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- French male taekwondo practitioners
- Olympic bronze medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in taekwondo
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- European Taekwondo Championships medalists
- ESSEC Business School alumni
- French people of Guadeloupean descent
- Martial artists from Paris
- 20th-century French sportsmen
- 21st-century French sportsmen