Xavier Revil

{{short description|French sailor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}

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| full_name = Xavier Revil

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| nationality = {{FRA}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|5|28|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

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| height = {{height|m=1.76|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|68|kg|lb|0|abbr=on}}

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| classes = Multihull

| club = Société des Régates à Voile d'Annecy

| coach = Philippe Neiras

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{{MedalSport | Men's sailing}}

{{MedalCountry | France }}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalBronze | 2005 La Rochelle | Tornado }}

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Xavier Revil (born 28 May 1971) is a French sailor, who specialized in the multihull (Tornado) class.{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Xavier Revil |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/re/xavier-revil-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055921/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/re/xavier-revil-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |access-date=27 June 2020}} Together with his partner Christophe Espagnon, he was named one of the country's top sailors in the mixed multihull catamaran for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant eleventh position.{{cite news |title=Voile. Tornado : les Espagnols champions olympiques |trans-title=Sailing. Tornado: the Spaniards become Olympic champions |language=fr |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/sport/voile-tornado-les-espagnols-champions-olympiques-170503 |publisher=Ouest-France |date=21 August 2008 |access-date=27 June 2020}} Outside his Olympic career, he and Espagnon gave the home crowd a further reason to celebrate with a bronze-medal finish at the 2005 Tornado Worlds in La Rochelle.{{cite news |title=Hagara Claims Bullet But Echavarri Leads |url=https://www.sailing.org/news/9051.php#.XvcL5pMzYyk |publisher=World Sailing |date=16 June 2005 |access-date=27 June 2020}} A member of the local sailing regatta club in his current hometown Annecy ({{langx|fr|Société des Régates à Voile d'Annecy}}), Revil trained most of his competitive sporting career under the tutelage of his personal coach Philippe Neiras.{{cite news |title=Xavier Revil et Christophe Espagnon remportent le championnat Nord Américain |trans-title=Xavier Revil and Christophe Espagnon won the North American championship title |language=fr |url=http://www.ffvoile.fr/ffv/web/actualites/actus_detail.asp?ID=889 |publisher=French Sailing Federation |date=2 March 2006 |access-date=27 June 2020}}

Revil competed for the French sailing squad, as a 37-year-old skipper in the Tornado class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Building up their Olympic selection, he and crew member Espagnon finished a credible sixth in the golden fleet phase to lock one of the eleven quota places offered at the 2007 ISAF Worlds in Cascais, Portugal.{{cite news |title=Xavier Revil et Christophe Espagnon sélectionnés pour les JO en Tornado |trans-title=Xavier Revil and Christophe Espagnon were selected for the Olympics in Tornado |language=de |url=http://www.ffvoile.fr/ffv/web/actualites/actus_detail.asp?ID=1160#gsc.tab=0 |publisher=French Sailing Federation |date=28 September 2007 |access-date=27 June 2020}} The French duo started the series with a fantastic top-four mark on the second race; however, a broken halyard lock before race 4 and a wave of unimpressive tenths towards the final stretch bumped Revil and Espagnon out of the medal hunt to eleventh overall by a slight margin, amassing 69 net points.{{cite news |title=Spaniards Stay Ahead As Tornados Sail In Troubled Waters |url=https://www.sailing.org/news/4285.php#.XvIvo5MzYyk |publisher=World Sailing |date=17 August 2008 |access-date=23 June 2020}}{{cite web |title=Beijing 2008: Open Tornado Class |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/sailing/resultsandschedules/rsc=SAX006000/standings.html |work=Beijing 2008 |publisher=NBC Olympics |access-date=11 July 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711172723/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/sailing/resultsandschedules/rsc=SAX006000/standings.html |archive-date=11 July 2012 }}