Teva Plichart began racing on Hobie Cats in Tahiti before joining the French youth match racing team. He then sailed with Paolo Cian, with whom he won a European championship, and took gold at the 470 World Championship and at the 2003 Mediterranean Championship.
In the Tour de France à la voile he finished second in 2007 with Tahiti Tourisme, and second again in 2017 at the helm of Trésors de Tahiti.
He later raced in D35 and TF35 with Yliam Comptoir Immobilier (2016-2019, winning the D35 class at the 2019 Bol d'Or), and now leads SSL Team Tahiti, which went out in the round of 16 of the 2023 SSL Gold Cup.
