Jennifer French (sailor)

Jennifer French

Personal information
Nationality	American
Born	1971 Royalton, Ohio
Medal record Competitor for  United States Sailing 2009 United States Disabled Sailing Championship Ideal 18 2010 Rolex Miami OCR Women's SKUD 18 sailing 2011 IFDS Worlds Women's SKUD 18 sailing 2012 Rolex Miami OCR Women's SKUD 18 sailing Paralympic Games 2012 London Women's SKUD 18 sailing

Jennifer French is an American SKUD 18 Para sailor.

Biography

Jennifer was born in 1971 in Royalton, Ohio. Currently she is attending Bridgewater State University and is a member of St. Petersburg Yacht Club^[1] where she also lives. She is married to Tim French and is friends with P. Hunter Peckham who is a physician at the Functional Electrical Stimulation director and a sail boat racer as well.^[2] In 1998 she was injured in a snowboarding accident which left her paraplegic. She started participating in the Olympics in 2009 at the United States Disabled Sailing Championship which earned her first place. She also got into the 5th place at Rolex Miami OCR the same year, but improved it, and got into 1st next year. Her awards went down from gold to bronze in two years. In 2011 she won a silver medal at IFDS Worlds and a year later went down to bronze at another annual Rolex Miami ISAF Sailing World Cup. On the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she won another silver medal for sailing.^[1] She got paralyzed after she damaged her spinal cord while snowboarding in 1998.^[3]

References

1. "Jennifer French". Team USA. United States Olympic Committee. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
2. Loren Grush (December 4, 2012). "Neurostimulation allows paralyzed athlete to walk down aisle at wedding". Fox News. Archived from the original on December 25, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
3. "Jennifer French, one of first to benefit from FES Center technology, to compete in Paralympics". Case Western Reserve University. August 29, 2012. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.