What is Fernande Moittié?
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Fernande Moittié | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | fullname = Fernande Orpha Moittié | nickname = | national_team = France | strokes = freestyle | club = [[Cercle des Tritons Pontoisiens]] | coach = | birth_date = {{birth date|1909|8|4|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Épinay-sur-Seine]], France | death_date = {{death date and age|1964|9|6|1909|8|4|df=y}} | death_place = [[Livilliers]], France | height = <!-- {{convert|x.xx|m|ftin|abbr=on}} --> | weight = <!-- {{convert|xx|kg|lb st|abbr=on}} --> | show-medals =yes | medaltemplates = }} '''Fernande Orpha Moittié''' (4 August 1909 - 6 September 1964) was a French [[open water]] and long distance [[swimming (sport)|swimmer]] in the 1920s. She was a member of [[Cercle des Tritons Pontoisiens]].<ref name=Velez>{{cite web|last=Velez|first=Anne|url=https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00608847/PDF/TheseVELEZ.pdf |title= LES FILLES DE L’EAU. UNE HISTOIRE DES FEMMES ET DE LA NATATION EN FRANCE(1905-1939)|work=Université d’Angers|date=2010|via=tel.archives-ouvertes.fr|access-date=10 November 2022|language=fr}}</ref> ==Swimming== In 1925 and 1926 she finished second in the open water swimming competition of [[Pontoise]]. In both years she finished second behind Prévost-Garden.<ref>''Le Journal'', 10 August 1925, [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76291380/f4.item.r=MOITTIE.zoom article].</ref><ref>''L'Œuvre'', 2 August 1926, [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4614013c/f5.item.r=MOITTIE.zoom article].</ref> Moittié competed for the first time in 1926 at the {{ill|Swimming across Paris|fr|Traversée de Paris à la nage}}, an open water swimming competition in Paris over 8 kilometres. The next year, in 1927, she won the event ahead of [[Isabelle Plancke]] and so became France national champion. She completed the 8 kilometres in 1h 57.38. In 1927 she also became champion of Paris in the 10