Charline Picon

Charline Picon, born in 1984, is a French windsurfer who sails the RS:X class and won the Olympic title at the 2016 Summer Olympics, after finishing eighth in the same event at London in 2012. She took bronze medals at the Windsurfing World Championships in 2009 and 2010 and won the world title at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain. She began windsurfing at eleven, trained as a physiotherapist, and competed in the Aloha and Mistral classes until 2006 before switching to RS:X. A shoulder operation in the 2008 to 2009 season kept her out of competition until September 2009.