Camille Charret offered herself a second blue-white-red jersey this Wednesday afternoon in the Junior individual pursuit tournament of the French Future Championship in Loudéac. Five months after the road title, the member of VC Villefranche Beaujolais doubles the bet. In the meantime, he participated in the World Track Championship in China, where he won the silver medal in the team pursuit. “I prepared better for the individual pursuit than for the World Championship. I had a fairly long preparation for the Chrono des Nations, so I was able to combine the two. Unfortunately, I did not get the expected result at the Chrono de Nations (14th, Editor's note)”, he comments for DirectVelo.
He focused on this French Avenir Track Championship with his Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes committee. “We worked a lot on the team pursuit with the committee, which allowed me to progress. For the World Cup, I had rather worked on 1 or 2 kilometers, he recalls. There, I worked more on 3 kilometers for an entire pursuit, that allowed me to never crash“. Due to the lack of a covered velodrome in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the young people on the committee had to emigrate. “We train in Switzerland in Aigle and Geneva. I also trained a little two weeks ago in Bourges“.
“I NEVER LET GO OF HIM”
In the final, the defending champion was opposed to Ellande Larronde who had broken the French record in China at the World Championship and finished 4th in the world tournament. In qualifying, Camille Charret set the best time with an 8 tenths lead. “I had a lot of pressure but I gained the psychological upper hand, does he feel. In the final, I did a pretty strong first kilometer, I had him directly in my sights and I never let go. When there were three laps left, I started to catch up with him, he crashed a little. I'm really happy to keep my title“This new title consoles him for his World Championship.”I was hoping for a little better for the individual pursuit and reaching one of the two finals. I was quite disappointed. But when I see the time I achieved, there was no reason to be disappointed, I was beaten by stronger people“.
Already on deck in January for the French Elite Championship where he had held off Benjamin Thomas for a long time in qualifying, Camille Charret found the season on the road “very long“But he divided his exercise into several phases to recover.”I did a lot of training blocks, I didn't do a lot of road running. I prepared my goals correctly with my trainer. I lived up to my performance. I had recovery periods, some didn't believe it…. Recovery blocks/training/competitions, that's how they do it among the pros“. The method was good for the 6th in the DV Junior Challenge (see his file). “This season has been incredible. I was on all the podiums of the Championships, whether internationally on the track or in France on the road. I have always been on a minimum podium. My Junior 2 season will be remembered“. And the 2025 season under the jersey of VC Villefranche Beaujolais will be the last before crossing the Rubicon with Conti d'Arkéa-B&B Hôtels.
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