 Trapp at the 2022 European Championships | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1 August 2000 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Long distance running, Cross country running | ||||||||||||||
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Manon Trapp (born 1 August 2000) is a French long-distance runner. She has won the French Athletics Championships over 5000 metres and is a multiple-time winner of the French Cross Country Championships and a previous holder of the national record in the Marathon. [1]
From Aix-les-Bains, she competed as a judoka, earning a black belt, before taking up running in 2017 and increasing her focus on athletics. [2] [3]
She won the French Cross Country Championships in 2021, 2022 and 2023, the sixth woman to win three consecutive titles. [2] She finished fourth in the women's U23 race at the 2021 European Cross Country Championships in Dublin, Ireland. [4] [5]
She won the French Athletics Championships on the track over 5000 metres in Caen in 2022. [6] She won the bronze medal in the team event and was sixth in the individual race in the under-23 category at the 2022 European Cross Country Championships in Turin, Italy. [7]
She retained her national title at the French Athletics Championships over 5000 metres in Albi in 2023. [8] [9]
In 2023, she finished 3rd French female at the Half Marathon World Road Running Championships. She ran her first full marathon distance that year on 3 December in Valencia, running a time of 2:25:48. [3] [10]
She set a half marathon personal best of 1:10:56 at the Paris Half Marathon in March 2024. [11] She chose not to defend her French cross country title in 2024 to focus on road running. [12] In February 2025, she became the French marathon national record holder in Seville with a time or 2:23:38. [13]
She was selected for the French team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [14]
