Stéphanie Neau

Stéphanie Neau (born September 16, 1975 in Blois) is a French sport shooter.[2] She was selected to compete for France in trap shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and eventually won a bronze medal at the 2009 European Championships in Osijek, Croatia.[1] Neau is a member of Ball Trap Club Chatelaillon in Châtelaillon-Plage, where she trains throughout her sport career under personal coach and 1996 Olympian Marc Mennessier.[1][3]

Stéphanie Neau
Personal information
Full nameStéphanie Neau
Nationality France
Born (1975-09-16) 16 September 1975
Blois, France
Height1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
Event(s)Trap (TR75)
ClubBTC Chatelaillon[1]
Coached byMarc Mennessier[1]
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing  France
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Osijek TR75

Neau qualified for a French team, as a 29-year-old, in women's trap shooting at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[4] She outplayed her rival and 2000 Olympic silver medalist Delphine Racinet by only three points 87 to 84 at the European Grand Prix meet in Brno, Czech Republic to snatch the Olympic place that her rival claimed from the ISSF World Cup series a year earlier.[5][6] Neau marked 57 hits out of a possible 75 to finish twelfth from a small field of seventeen shooters in the qualifying round, failing to advance to the final.[7][8]

References
  1. "ISSF Profile – Stéphanie Neau". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stéphanie Neau". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  3. "L'élite des sportifs pontois a été récompensée" [Elite athletes were rewarded with points] (in French). Sud-Ouest. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  4. "Les Français à Athènes" [The French in Athens] (in French). Eurosport. 1 August 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  5. "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. "Racinet privée de Jeux" [Racinet out of Games] (in French). Le Parisien. 13 May 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  7. "Shooting: Women's Trap Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. "Neau éliminée" [Neau eliminated] (in French). L'Équipe. 16 August 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2015.


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