Just retired, after having lived two Olympic finals in Paris, Emma Terebo will be the main headliner of the Circle of Caledonian swimmers, this Saturday, May 10. The club of the club will once again participate in the appointment. Back on his career.
Fourteen years before living the Olympic dream in Paris, Emma Terebo was already talking about her in Darwin, Australia. Selected for the Arafura Games, its first international competition, it was among the 3,000 athletes concerned, from the Asia-Pacific zone.
The swimmer of the Circle of Caledonian swimmers was only 13 years old at the time. “Emma Terebo and Thibaut Mary, it was really the darling of the Arafura Games. I remember that the technical advisor at the time, Serge David, had said that these two had a bright future. It was difficult to imagine because we saw two children, but they already had enthusiasm, they were going to coal, they were diligent in training and were already looking for the performance.recalls Erik Dufour, journalist from NC the 1st, present in Darwin.
Emma will gleaned six gold medals in free and butterfly there, embellished with a record of new Caledonia and another record of the Arafura Games. Thibaut Mary, now an educator at the CNC, also keeps this moment in memory. “Emma was already very, very strong. At the national level, she was already at the top level. It continued later, so it’s good for her”.
In 2013, her talent was publicly recognized on the territory during the sports trophies organized by the Olympic and local sports committee: she was elected hope of the year. Two years later, the file left for the European Championships in a small basin with the French team in Israel.
2015, a special year which also sees it put on the Cagou jersey during the Pacific Games in Port-Moresby, in Papua New Guinea where it will wake up no less than nine gold medals. Two years pass when the question of following his career comes.
-Rather than joining a France pole, Emma prefers to try the American adventure where she hopes to find a spirit “More turned towards the team”. She flies away for the University of Florida State where she will conduct a double course studies and swimming in the NCAA championship. “These are higher studies with a higher level in basins. I leave because I need to raise my level”She says in August 2017 before leaving the pebble.
After these four years, and after a period of uncertainty in her very high level quest, she is convinced by Michel Chrétien to join the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (INSEP). This national coach, who also takes care of Maxime Grousset, will restart it completely. Only a few months after the start of their collaboration, she will seek two national coronations from the French Limoges 2022 championships on 100 and 200 meters back.
She continues with a 5e Place for its first World Cups in Budpaest, then three new hexagonal titles over its favorite distances in 2023 and 2024. Its ticket for the Validated Paris 2024 Olympic Games, it will make the most of this unique moment. A first Olympic experience which allows you to live a first final on the 100 meter back that it ends in 7th position.
With the 4×100 meter 4 French swimming relay, she will play another final completed in 6th place with the bonus of a French record as a key, and a huge smile. It is so good to see that there is my whole family, all my friends from New Caledonia who follow me. I hope I was able to send them all my joy of life, I was so happy to be there, I wanted to share it with them “.
This Saturday, the child of the CNC will once again be present for the traditional and renowned meeting of his club which offers each year a major swimming party open to all categories over 50 meters freestyle. It will be accompanied by two other Olympic level swimmers, Mewen Tomac and Hadrien Salvan.
Emma Terebo was the guest of the television news on Monday May 5, presented by Steeven Gnipate:
