He successfully led Paris's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics and served as the head of the organising committee for those games.

At the 2004 games in Athens he won the gold medal after a late judges decision to award a 2-second penalty to Michal Martikán,[2] for which he was promoted to the rank of Commander in the Ordre national du Mérite,[3] having been inducted as a Chevalier ('Knight') in the order in 2000.

[8] Together with his brother Patrice, he developed the Pau-Pyrénées Whitewater Stadium (opened in 2008) in their home town of Pau.

[citation needed] Tony is the son of Henri Estanguet, himself a canoeist who won medals at the Wildwater Canoe World Championships in the 1970s.

The Paris bid proved successful,[13] and Estanguet served as the head of the organizing committee for those Games.