Born in Tarbes in 1984, Mathieu Crepel started snowboarding at six at La Mongie. He joined the sports-focused high school in Villard-de-Lans in 1999 and quickly rose on the international circuit.
He won the half-pipe World Cup crystal globe in 2005, became the first Ticket To Ride world champion in 2006, then FIS world champion in big air and half-pipe in 2007 at Arosa. He took half-pipe bronze at the 2009 Worlds and competed at the 2006 and 2010 Olympics. He later worked as a consultant for France Télévisions at several Winter Games.
In 2020 Stan Thuret proposed he team up for the 2021 Transat Jacques Vabre. After short, intense training he started in Class40 aboard Everial and finished 26th.
