Chamberian Emma Lombardi, who finished 3e in the 2024 elite senior world ranking after a season where she confirmed that she is the great hope of the French triathlon by winning 4th place in the individual event but also in the mixed relay at the Paris Olympics, is entering a new cycle in her preparation with a view to being there in Los Angeles in 2028.
“This will help me build the future”
The 2021 U23 world champion, at 23, announced on social networks this weekend that she was leaving the France pole at Creps de Boulouris (Var), after four years spent under the rule of Mickaël Ayassani, to bounce back on the side of the Grenoble Performance Circle, a high-level structure built around the 2023 world champion from Isérois, Dorian Coninx.
She evokes “the end of a first Olympic cycle which brought a need for change in order to discover new things and continue to evolve”, while thanking all the people who were able to help her in her project in the Var structure. , and mainly his coach. “We learned a lot together and that will help me build the future.” “Here we go for a new adventure,” reacts the Savoyard who does not specify in her communication whether this new orientation includes changes concerning the regional clubs where she is licensed, the Vals du Dauphiné Olympic triathlon and the Dauphins d’Annecy swimming .
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