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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 September 1999 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 800m: 1:44.25 (2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Corentin Le Clezio (born 24 September 1999) is a French middle distance runner. He competed over 800 metres at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [1]
He is from Beauvais in the Oise département, in the Hauts-de-France region. [2] He also spent time in his childhood in Saint-Caradec in Brittany. He was a keen handball player in his youth and only took up athletics in 2017. He was educated in Cergy-Pontoise. He graduated with a master’s degree in sports management and in training and optimization of sports performance, in 2023. [3] [4]
He had a world ranking of 600 for the 800 metres in 2022. [5] In July 2023, whilst competing for Cergy-Pontoise athletics club, he improved his personal best for the 800 metres to 1:45.61 at the MNEL (Meeting National de l'Est Lyonnais). This was a three-second improvement from his previous best of 1:48.91. Following this, he hired Vincent Guyot as his coach with the aim to qualify for the upcoming Olympic Games, held in his native France. [6] [7] He was a silver medalist over 800 metres at the delayed 2021 Summer World University Games in Chengdu, China, in August 2023. [8]
He met the minimum Olympic standard whilst running in Vienna on 22 June 2024, running 1:44.25. [9] [10] He finished third at the French Athletics Championships in Angers in June 2024. [11] He competed in the 800 metres race at the 2024 Paris Olympics, placing fourth in his qualifying heat. He then finished third in his heat in the repechage round, but did not qualify for the semi-finals. [12] [13]
He was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Appeldoorn, but did not reach the semi-finals of the 800 metres. [14] [15]
