From New York to Berlin, Southern Girondist Christian Gousseau runs marathons to rebuild himself

At the age of 59, married and the father of two boys aged 33 and 30, Christian Gousseau has been from Martillac for about twenty years. This veteran has 37 years of service in the army, including about twenty in the paratrooper and mountain infantry combat units. In this context, he accomplished “psychologically traumatic missions,” he says.

Sustainability through sport

Christian Gousseau has always been fun and, at the age of 40, he decided to take part in the La Rochelle marathon, encouraged by Catriona, his wife. He turned to this sport to “find a cure and a center for these invisible wounds”, because we politely say that the psychological disorders associated with military missions are as delicate as they are Sorry.

It was in 2017, after reconnecting with a French marathon, that Christian Gousseau found the World Marathon Majors (WMM), an international competition created in 2006, which brings together the major annual marathon races, Tokyo , London, Boston, Berlin, Chicago and New. Heb. So he took on a new challenge: run these six marathons to help with his rebuilding.

So here he is in New York in 2017, then in Tokyo, Chicago, London and Berlin in the following years, with times between 4:01 am and 3:23 am, which does not prevent him from taking participation in other events: six days of the Marathon des Sables in Morocco in 2022, a route for a war wounded in Scotland, in 2023, from which he will return as a gold medalist and a marathon in Washington as a push for an injured soldier.

Holder of five WMM medals, Christian Gousseau has yet to add the 6th to his list of achievements by running the legendary Boston marathon, created in 1897, in the spring of 2025. He will have a Six Star medal also, don’t stop it. not continuing the competitions that helped him, as well as his family, to recover a certain well-being step by step.