bronze medalist in para-rowing, she became sub-prefect in Nièvre

Barely time to catch your breath for Émilie Acquistapace. On September 1, the 36-year-old Frenchwoman won the bronze medal in para-rowing with the French mixed coxed four – which she guides without being disabled – on the Vaires-sur-Marne basin, during the Paralympic Games. Two weeks later, her life changed almost completely. Her sports career as a coxswain was over, and she was now in the civil service, full-time. The Olympic medalist has just been appointed sub-prefect of Château-Chinon in the Nièvre. “I want to serve and act positively. I know the challenges of rurality, isolation, and stakeholders with divergent interests. I don’t know the Morvan, but it is with great pleasure that I will learn to know it.” she explains, in remarks reported by France 3 regions.

“For Nièvre, you have to know how to run a marathon. It is a territory of immense challenges. It is dynamic and its profile is very interesting, said Julien Guibert, RN MP for the second constituency of Nièvre.

From the basins to the prefecture

Émilie Acquistapace, who spoke for the first time this Monday at the town hall of Château-Chinon, now wishes to concentrate on issues that are major in her eyes, “security and regulation, economic development, links with local stakeholders, quality of life”. A commitment that is now total and owes nothing to chance for the young woman, a graduate of the School of Economic Warfare, Sciences Po Lille and the Higher School of Reserve Officers Specializing in Staff. She was also first deputy in the city of Bourget du Lac (Savoie) before her Paralympic interlude began in 2022.

“I had the responsibility of defining a strategy with the coach and the rowers, and I was there to remind them. But we were on seven minutes in the race. Now I’m on two or three years of mandate, we’re going to try to be consistent”smiled the sub-prefect, proud of this “special moment”A new adventure therefore begins for the Frenchwoman, accustomed to rowing against contrary winds.

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