Visionary, especially a connoisseur of athletics, the father and trainer of Flavie Renouard had warned at the beginning of the week: “If we take our ‘news’, there has been a good level of achievement this winter, but it may take a little time to feel it in competition. Flavie’s season is just fine at her level. “
The hopeful French champion in the 3,000m steeplechase last September would have liked to make her father lie on Friday at Miramas, but her race and her time were rather referred to Alain Renouard’s words. As on the 1,500m at the Mondeville meeting, the EA Mondeville-Hérouville athlete saw a leading group move away quickly and Alice Finot (Bordeaux Athlé) win the race.
Last September, Flavie Renouard finished second and in the same second as the latter in the A final of the 3,000 m steeplechase. The winter of 2021 did not write the same kind of scenario, while the Normande had to digest her first two internships with the French team, at Font-Romeu in October and at Monte Gordo in January.
Flavie Renouard: “I’m still satisfied, see you this summer! “
Eighth in the scratch, in 9’36”77 while she was hoping to beat her record (9’34”54), the 20-year-old Hérouvillaise still finished with the bronze medal among the hopes around her neck. “I’m still satisfied, see you this summer”, she told us just after her race, with the desire to assert herself more over 3000 m steeplechase. “We have already done the debriefing, case closed, smiles and complements his dad. It’s a bit like his last races. It started slowly, it was a ride, but the gear change didn’t happen for Flavie. Lately, she has been doing workouts that she had never done before in terms of quality. She was perhaps a little inside in competition, there was no doubt a lack of freshness. In any case, we explain it like that. “
Another athlete from EA Mondeville-Hérouville reached the podium. For Nayah Cauvin, it is even the highest step. Holder of the Cadet Calvados record, improved during the Perche Élite Tour de Rouen in early February (3.88m), the EA Mondeville-Hérouville pole vaulter dominated limited competition in her category, clearing 3.76m.
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