Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Focus on 4 French-speaking sportswomen

Audrey Gogniat, sports shooting

Edit: On July 29, 2024, the Jurassian won the bronze medal in 10m air rifle shooting. This is the first medal won by Switzerland in the competition.

Canton: Jura

Date of birth: October 30, 2022

Audrey Gogniat is on the rise and is already aiming for an Olympic medal. What we wish for him. The athlete recently achieved a very good score by winning bronze in the 10m air rifle, during the last European Shooting Championships in Györ, Hungary, in March 2024. During this competition, she She also finished 8th in the team rankings with two of her compatriots, Nina Christen and Chiara Leone, also selected for Paris.

The Jurassienne was also nominated this year for the election of the best athlete of the 2023 Relève of Romandie by the Aide sportive suisse foundation (prize ultimately won by the Valais freestyle skier Margaux Dumont). In 2023, Audrey Gogniat stood out during junior competitions by becoming world champion in Changwon (Korea) and European vice-champion in Tallinn (Estonia). She then won an Olympic ticket during her first elite worlds thanks to a sixth place obtained in Baku.

Zoé Claessens, BMX

Edit: On Friday August 2, 2024, the Vaudoise won the bronze medal, winning her first Olympic victory in BMX Racing. This is the sixth medal won by the Swiss delegation in Paris.

Canton: Vaud

Date of birth: 28 avril 2001

Triple European champion and double world vice-champion, the winners of Zoé Claessens makes you dream. The rise of the Vaud sportswoman, who discovered BMX at the age of 7, is no longer stopping. His latest gold medal? That of the European championships organized at the beginning of June 2024 in Verona, after having also been crowned there in 2021 and 2023, which makes her, without a doubt, one of the favorites of these Olympic Games for the BMX Racing events.

Three other athletes from Switzerland were selected for this event: Nadine Aeberhard, Cedric Butti and Simon Marquart. Geneva’s Nikita Ducarroz, who won a bronze medal at the previous Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, is also part of the trip and will try her luck again in BMX freestyle. In Tokyo, Zoé Claessens finished her journey in the semi-final.

Célia Dupré, rowing

Canton: Geneva

Date of birth: August 30, 2001

Fin 2023, Célia Dupré was named Geneva Sportswoman of the Year during Sports Night. A title that announces big things for 2024, starting with participation in the Olympics. A dream for which she fought intensely. It was his mother who introduced him to rowing at the age of 11. Since then, the athlete has been a 17-time medalist at the Swiss Championships, but also crowned double world champion and double European vice-champion in junior and U23 in 2018 and 2021.

Célia Dupré was selected for the Paris Olympiad with three other rowers by obtaining a historic 4th place during the World Championships in Belgrade in 2023. Thus, Célia Dupré, Lisa Lötscher (LU), Pascale Walker (ZH) and Fabienne Schweizer ( LU) allow Switzerland to qualify for the first time a women’s “quadruple scull” (four-person rowing discipline) at an Olympic level. Geneva’s Sofia Meakin, teammate of Célia Dupré in the Vésenaz rowing club, will be a replacement.

Morgane Métraux, golf

Canton: Vaud

Date of birth: 18 mars 1997

This is the first time that Morgane Métraux participates in the Olympic Games. The sportswoman from Vaud is one of only two Swiss women in history to have won a first place on the Ladies European Tour, the major circuit in Europe. Morgane Métraux has even obtained this title twice, in May 2024 at the Jabra Ladies Open in Evian, then in June 2022, at the Ladies Italian Open. A historic title which came twenty-two years after the victory of Zurich’s Evelyn Orley.

2024 was also a year marked by the presence of the Lausanne native in the top 10 of the Galloway tournament, where she ranked 9th. During this circuit, her compatriot, the Genevan Albane Valenzuela, rose to 5th place (she was also selected for Paris for a third Olympic participation). In Tokyo, Morgane Métraux was also supposed to be part of the trip, but ultimately gave up and left her precious ticket to her big sister, Kim Métraux, with whom she shares a passion for golf.

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