Tony Estanguet

Medal record
Tony Estanguet riding for the gold medal at the 2006 World Championships at Troja slalom course in Prague.
Men's canoe slalom
Competitor for France
Olympic Games
Gold	2000 Sydney	C-1
Gold	2004 Athens	C-1
World Championships
Gold	2005 Penrith	C-1 team
Gold	2006 Prague	C-1
Gold	2007 Foz do Igauçu	C-1 team
Gold	2009 La Seu d'Urgell	C-1
Gold	2010 Tacen	C-1
Silver	1997 Três Coroas	C-1 team
Silver	2003 Augsburg	C-1
Silver	2003 Augsburg	C-1 team
Silver	2005 Penrith	C-1
Silver	2007 Foz do Igauçu	C-1
Silver	2009 La Seu d'Urgell	C-1 team
Bronze	1999 La Seu d'Urgell	C-1 team

Tony Estanguet (born 6 May 1978 in Pau, France) is a French slalom canoeist. He has competed since the late 1990s.

Career

Tony is the son of Henri Estanguet, himself a canoeist who won medals at the World Championships in the 1970s. His elder brother, Patrice Estanguet, won a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Estanguet has won two Olympic gold medals in the C-1 event, in 2000 and 2004, where he won after the referees controversially decided to award Michal Martikán a two second penalty which pushed him to second place, only 12 hundredths of a second behind Estanguet.

Estanguet was the flag-bearer for France at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony. He finished in the 9th position (out of 12 competitors; only the first eight would qualify for the final) in the semi-finals of the C-1 event and was thus eliminated from the final.

He won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with five golds (C-1: 2006, 2009, 2010; C-1 team: 2005, 2007), six silvers (C-1: 2003, 2005, 2007; C-1 team: 1997, 2003, 2009), and a bronze (C-1 team: 1999).

He and his brother Patrice developed the Whitewater Stadium Pau-Pyrénées in their home town of Pau.

References

• 2010 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships 12 September 2010 C-1 men's final results. - accessed 12 September 2010.
• 12 September 2009 final results of the men's C-1 team slalom event for the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. - accessed 12 September 2009.
• 13 September 2009 final results of the men's C-1 event at the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships. - accessed 13 September 2009.
• DatabaseOlympics.com profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
• Sports-reference.com profile

Olympic Games
Preceded by Jackson Richardson	Flagbearer for France Beijing 2008	Succeeded by TBD