A third year medical student, Eliot Le Saout finished in… 3rd place, off the mark in the 3,000 meter final during the Finistère departmental championships, relocated to Saint-Brieuc on Sunday. A rank which nevertheless grants him the title of hopeful champion of Finistère over the distance.
We can still sense an ounce of disappointment in the voice of the 19-year-old, with a beaming smile and mustache: “My entry time was 8'30, I did 8'36…”. Quickly left behind by the Costarmorican Corentin Prouteau (Trégueux Langueux Athlétisme), who set off like a rocket with several tens of meters ahead from the first lap, the Landernéen ran more than 2,000 meters neck and neck with Sylvain Le Bourhis (Pays de Paimpol Athletics), 15 years his senior. The latter beat him with a saving sprint in the last 50 meters: “My legs were cut,” Le Saout conceded. Even though athletics is an individual sport, for me it is a team sport. I managed to get along with Sylvain, I didn't run alone. And it's the same in medicine; all alone in the emergency room, you can't do anything…”
Medicine and athletics, a successful mix
Off the slopes, the half-distance runner also tries to perform on the benches of the Brest faculty. A medical student, the PLA member intends to become… an emergency doctor: “So as not to have this habitual side where we regularly see the same pathologies. In the emergency room, what happens is random, we don't get too bored. »
Like Benoit Campion, 6th year student and member of Stade Brestois Athlétisme, or Yann Schrub, young doctor and finalist in the 5,000 and 10,000 m at the Paris 2024 Olympics, Eliot Le Saout tries to reconcile intense studies and practicing sport at a good level: “I reduced my running a little during the first year, but it’s become my priority again these last two seasons. » All he has to do is imitate his colleagues on and off the track.
