Titouan Lamazou

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (January 2021) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Titouan Lamazou]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Titouan Lamazou}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Titouan Lamazou

Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1955-07-11) 11 July 1955 (age 69) Casablanca, Morocco
Sailing career
Class	IMOCA 60

Titouan Lamazou is a French navigator, artist and writer, born on 11 July 1955 in Casablanca, Morocco. He was actually born Antoine Lamazou, he officially took the name Titouan Lamazou in 1986. After a stint at the Fine Arts, he went travelling at the age of 18 where he met with Éric Tabarly who encouraged him into adventure sailing winning the first Vendée Globe in 1990.^[1]

• 1990 - André de Saint-Sauveur Prize from the French Academy of Sports
• 1991 - Chevalier de l'ordre du Mérite Maritime Knight of the Order of Maritime Merit 1991
• 2003 = Official Navy Painter in 2003
• 2003 = UNESCO Artist for Peace, 2003
• 2017 - Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur Knight of the Legion of Honour on April 14, 2017^[2]

• Official website

This biographical article related to French sports is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This biographical article related to sailing in France is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e