Charline Picon, Olympic champion in 2016, won the gold medal of the Euro-2020 windsurfing (RS: X), Saturday in Vilamoura (Portugal), a strong signal sent to her opponents within a year of the Tokyo Games. “It feels good! This morning (Saturday), I put a lot of pressure on myself to finish the job even though I had had a super good week (in qualifying), ”Picon told AFP shortly after his victory in his first competition since. end of February. “Finding myself in this leadership position that I had in 2014, having this ascendancy over others is important,” continued the champion, leading all week in Vilamoura. The 35-year-old Rochelaise was keen to “regain her place as N.1”, after finishing second in the last two Worlds (2020 and 2018). On Saturday, in the south of Portugal, she won in front of her rivals for the Olympic Games, the Israeli Katy Spychakov, the Polish Zofia Noceti-Klepacka and the Briton Emma Wilson (fourth).
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