Elite French Championships in Caen, from Friday to Sunday
Last year in Angers, the athletes licensed to the Ligue de Bretagne won five medals. The men had done better than the women with gold for Tom Reux in the discus, silver for Yann Moisan in the shot put and bronze for Valentin Charles in the decathlon. Shana Grébo had been crowned in the 400m hurdles and Solène Gicquel had obtained the silver at the height.
A year later, the Bretons seem to have a slight lead over the Bretons in the race for gold medals.
Solène Gicquel and Shana Grébo in the lead
Since last Saturday and the Diamond League meeting in Paris, Solène Gicquel has had the best engagement performance with a bar at 1.88 m. The Stadiste Rennaise comes to Normandy to recover the gold medal that Laureen Maxwell (Athlé 91) had stolen from her last year.
Another locomotive of Breton athletics, Rennaise Shana Grébo will not defend her title in the 400m hurdles. The athlete from Haute-Bretagne Athletics has chosen to line up in the 200m and 400m, just to work on his speed and open the door to the French team for the two major meetings of the he summer: the world championships in Eugene (United States), from July 15 to 24, and the European championships in Munich (Germany), from August 15 to 21. “Clearly, she is coming to win”, announces her trainer Marc Reuzé who is also counting on Léna Kandissounon to get on the podium in Caen, although she only comes with the 5th entry time in the 800m. “She is consistent around her personal best (2’02”60). This means that at some point, she will release a timer. His goal in Caen is to get on the box.
“There is more of a generation of girls”
With Gicquel, Grébo and Kandissounon, is Breton athletics written in the feminine? If he is not certain on the subject, Marc Reuzé observes that within Haute-Bretagne Athlétisme, the largest supplier of athletes at the French championships, “there is more of a generation of girls. In the potentials that arrive behind, it is rather girls, with Maïwenn L’Hévéder and Lou-Anne Jolivet ”.
If the Breton women seem to have a slight lead, three Bretons can get on the podium in Caen: Tom Reux (disc), Yann Moisan (weight) and Victor Coroller (400m hurdles). But for the gold, they will have to blast their personal best.
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