She’s almost there. Two fingers, almost nothing. Anaïs Bourgoin, 27, could qualify for the Paris Olympic Games next week and compete in the 800 meters. She has already achieved the minimum twice, i.e. 1 minute, 59 seconds and 30 tenths, in the semi-final and final of the 800 meters at the European Championships in Rome on June 12.
She even won the bronze medal. “When arriving in Rome, Anaïs Bourgoin certainly did not expect such an outcome,” said…
She’s almost there. Two fingers, almost nothing. Anaïs Bourgoin, 27, could qualify for the Paris Olympic Games next week and compete in the 800 meters. She has already achieved the minimum twice, i.e. 1 minute, 59 seconds and 30 tenths, in the semi-final and final of the 800 meters at the European Championships in Rome on June 12.
She even won the bronze medal. “When arriving in Rome, Anaïs Bourgoin certainly did not expect such an outcome,” said the federation. Here she is going to get her first European medal. Personal best exploded (1’58”65), Olympic minimums validated. Flawless! »
“It’s the third best French performance of all time,” smiles Anaïs. Now, you have to be in the top three at the French championships to be sure of going to the Olympics. I focus on that. One thing after another. I don’t want to lose focus. The Olympics are so magnificent. At the Stade de France! With the French public for you! But I’m not there yet, almost, but not yet…”
Anaïs was born in Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher), and today lives in the Paris region. In the meantime, she spent her childhood in the Arcachon basin, in La Teste-de-Buch, where her mother, Ève Sittarame, is a trainer for the National Sea Rescue Society (SNSM). And it was on the Basin that his destiny as an athlete was forged.
” My mother “
When she was little, she followed her mother on a bike as she ran. “She did triathlon,” remembers Anaïs. So I started doing it, to be a bit like her. But I wasn’t very good at swimming. And my first trainer, on the Basin, advised me to turn to athletics. » This is how she found herself licensed to the Union Athlétique Gujan-Mestras (UAGM), like Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (world champion in the 800 meters in 2017) was. With medals like this third place over 800 meters during the French cadet championships in Drôme in 2014!
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Anaïs Bourgoin in 2014 here with Matthieu Tomassi, when she won the bronze medal in the 800 meters at the French championships.
She persevered. She then enrolled in sports studies athletics in Talence, while keeping her license in Gujan. She persevered. How is the conviction of being a champion born? ” I don’t know. I knew I had skills. And I have always known how to hurt myself, it is essential at the high level. »
“I knew I had skills. And I have always known how to hurt myself, it is essential at the high level. »
Afterwards, she chose the police. ” For what ? My first trainer in the Basin was a police officer and my mother was a soldier. Maybe that’s it. » Named in the 18the district of Paris, it has been available since May 2023, for the Olympic Games. “I wanted to try my luck. I give myself the means. Everything’s in the details. The results are decided within a few tenths of a second. There’s a world of difference between being able to do things and actually doing them. »
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Anaïs Bourgoin must finish on the podium of the French championships at the end of June to go to the Paris Olympics.
“There’s a world of difference between being able to do things and actually doing them. »
She trains once or twice a day under the eyes of her coach Jean-Baptiste Congourdeau, in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Efforts, always efforts. First, win in Angers at the French championships next weekend. And then the Olympics. There is a destiny in every race: “It’s up to me to do the right thing at the right time…”
