Antonin Michel

Antonin Michel is a French Language Scrabble player who has also competed in English.

His next major success was winning the French National title in 1998, and shocked the Scrabble community again by competing in the English World Championship the next year - although he finished a disappointing 8 wins out of 24, -951 points, 95th place out of 98 competitors.

He would win the French title three more times, 2003-05 but would only finish tenth in 2006 despite only missing one top.

He became World Champion for the first time in 2005, with arguably the most dominating performance in the championships' history.

He finished second in 2006 but won the World Championship in 2007 having lost only 9 points over 7 games.