Sometimes you have to know how to step back to jump better. After a Friday without much thrill, the second day of the elite French championships in Angers began with bad news for the Lorraine clan. Embarrassed by a lumbar pain at the end of her warm-up, Auriana Lazraq (A2M) had to give up the length competition, at 1:45 pm… And the height, this Sunday. “We do not want to take unnecessary risks,” tempered his coach, Julien Choffart. “The goal remains Tallinn. “Where the Combined Metz will find its specialty for the European Championships hopefuls, next weekend.
While waiting for the big meeting of his summer, Lazraq was able to attend, in the stands, a hot, boiling Saturday. Listed in the small group of favorites in the 1500m since her superb 4’08”62 held on June 1 in Montreuil, Aurore Fleury (NAM) got everyone to agree on the track and offered Lorraine a first medal gold, this weekend in Angers. Just behind the Nancy, Marie-Ange Rimlinger (US Forbach), at 19, set a date for the future. If this appearance among the big ones will not have given birth to a new personal best in 100 m (11”42), the Moselle sprinter held her place, with an 11”50 in the heats and an 11”55 in final which allows him to finish fifth.
Augustin Bey to play
Another room, another atmosphere, Yann Schrub (ASSA) concluded this day on Saturday with undoubtedly one of the most awaited races of the weekend: the men’s 5000m. Faced with the twirling Hugo Hay and Jimmy Gressier, both already stripped of the Olympic minima (13’13”50), the Sarregueminois first observed a race blown up to 2000 m by Florian Carvalho. He then did what he knew best: climb on the podium, in third position behind the invincible Hay and Gressier, while improving his personal best (13’37”22).
This Sunday, for the last day of the French championships, the track at the Lac du Maine stadium will not risk cooling down since the Lorrainers will once again be legion. If Marie-Ange Rimlinger will return for the 200m, Augustin Bey (A2M) will be followed very closely to the length where he could double the title of champion of France and great metric performance one month before the Olympic Games. Finally, fifth time in the entries in the 100 m hurdles with her 13”13, Pauline Lett (A2M) will remember that the first time she came to Angers for the elite French championships, she finished eighth in the heptathlon. If this time it could be the podium, it would be even better …
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