Lilou Ruel

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Lilou Ruel
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Personal information
Born (2003-05-09) 9 May 2003 (age 22)
Mont-Saint-Aignan, Normandy, France
Sport
CountryFrance
Sport
Medal record
Representing Flag of France.svg  France
Air Wipp
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2017 SwedenWomen
E-FISE
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020Parkour freestyle
Freerunning and Parkour World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2021 SofiaWomen's freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2021 SofiaWomen's speed
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 SofiaWomen's speed
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 SofiaWomen's freestyle
Parkour World Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Tokyo Women
Red Bull Al-Andalus
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2021 GrenadaWomen
Red Bull Art of Motion
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Pireaus Best Female
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Astypalea Best Female

Lilou Ruel (born 9 May 2003) is a French freerunner and parkour competitor. [1]

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Early life and education

Ruel was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan, Normandy. As a young child, she lived in Turkey for two years. Upon returning to France, the family settled in Plaisance-du-Touch, a suburb of Toulouse. [2]

Ruel's first foray into sports was tennis and speed skating. [1] [3]

Ruel completed her Baccalaureate in Economics and Social studies at Lycée de Tournefeuille in 2021. [2] [4] After taking a gap year, she began studying to become a stuntwoman at Campus Univers Cascade in Northern France. [2]

Sports career

Ruel became interested in parkour at age nine, [1] and began training later that year. [2] At age 11, one of her parkour videos went viral. [2] She began competing at age 14, coming third at the 2017 Air Wipp competition in Sweden. [2] [3] In 2018, she took five months off from the sport following an injury. [2] At age 16, she competed at the 2019 Red Bull Art of Motion. [1]

During the COVID-19 lockdown, Ruel continued to train in her family's garden, and began to consider pursuing free running and parkour as a career. [3] In September 2020, she competed in the virtual E-FISE competition, winning silver in the parkour freestyle event. [5]

At the 2021 Red Bull Al-Andalus, Ruel won the women's event. [6] Later that year, she won gold in the women's freestyle event and silver in women's speed at the 2021 Freerunning and Parkour World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria. [2] [7] [8]

In May 2022, Ruel became the first woman to try and complete the 4.5m gap/15m tall 'Manpower' jump in Évry, France. [9] [10] That year she also won three medals: bronze in the women's category at the Parkour World Championships, bronze in women's speed [11] and bronze in women's freestyle at the Parkour World Cup. [12]

In July 2024, Ruel performed in the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, being one of nine people to portray a masked torchbearer. She reprised the role for the Olympic Champions Parade in September 2024. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Lilou Ruel". Red Bull. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Camy, PH (12 October 2023). "Lilou Ruel : la voie de Lilou". Red Bull (in French). Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Bernard, Marion (7 April 2022). "Lilou Ruel, une Toulousaine sur le toit du monde". L'Opinion Indépendante (in French). Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "Lilou Ruel, le vertige du bitume". Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne. 29 November 2018.
  5. ↑ "Parkour Freestyle - E-FISE 2020 - Finale - Déclarations de Lilou Ruel". www.ffgym.fr. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "El mexicano Xavia Rodríguez y la francesa Lilou Ruel, ganadores en Granada". Diario de México (in Spanish). 24 April 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  7. ↑ "Sofia Parkour World Cup from 2021 to be Birmingham 2022 World Games qualifier". Inside the Games. 2 March 2022. Archived from the original on 16 June 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  8. ↑ "PK - Lilou Ruel remporte les deux premières médailles françaises en coupe du monde FIG". www.ffgym.fr. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "Incroyable exploit dans le monde du parkour : Lilou Ruel, première femme à réaliser le mythique saut Manpower". France 3 Occitanie (in French). 6 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  10. ↑ Nguyen, William Minh Hào (23 July 2022). "Parkour : pour Lilou Ruel, première femme à avoir «sauté le Manpower», «aucune marge d'erreur possible»". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  11. ↑ https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/2022/p_22sofia_wsp.pdf.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "FIG Parkour World Cup Sofia Sofia (BUL), 9-11 September 2022 Women's Freestyle Final" (PDF).
  13. ↑ "Masked Olympic torchbearer 'frustrated' after everyone thought it was a man". Metro. 21 September 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
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