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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 December 2000 Lyon | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Middle distance running | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 1500m: 4:17.63 (Angers, 2021) | ||||||||||||||
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Emilie Girard (born 26 December 2000) is a French middle-distance runner. She was a silver medalist in the mixed relay at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships. [1]
From Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, she is a member of Décines Meyzieu Athlétisme. [2] [3] Trained by Bastien Perraux, she won the French junior indoor 800 metres title in Liévin in a time of 2:11.28 in February 2019. In March 2019, she made her debut in a French vest at the U20 ITA - FRA Indoor Match, in Ancona, Italy, in which she placed second in the 1500 metres in a time of 4:27.12, behind her training teammate Bérénice Fulchiron, with both athletes finishing inside the national under-20 record. She was also runner-up in the French U20 cross country championships in 2019 in Vittel. [4] [5] She subsequently competed for France again at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark, in March 2019. [6] In January 2020, she won the Rhône cross country short course championship held in Decines. [7]
She joined the University of Oregon in 2021. [8] She won the Portland Distance Carnival 1500m race in 2023. [9] She returned to France in 2024, winning the Villeurbanne 10km road race in March 2024. [10]
She finished as runner-up to Agathe Guillemot in the French short course cross country trials in November 2024. [11] She was subsequently selected for the French mixed relay team for the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey. She won a silver medal in the mixed team relay alongside Antoine Senard, Simon Bedard, and Guillemot. [12] [13]
