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| Sport | Para badminton / Para snowboard | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Spastique Tetraplegia | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | SL3 / SB-LL1 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Milena Surreau (born 12 May 1997) is a French para-badminton player who competes in international badminton competitions, she is a European champion and has competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [1] [2]
Surreau has a rare neurological disease called Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia that causes muscle weakness in her legs, arms, and spasticity. She also has autism. [3]
In 2025, she began a career in para snowboard by competing on the French Cup circuit, where she won the overall ranking after three victories in Giant Slalom. [4] She then qualified for the French Championships, where she earned two national titles in Giant Slalom and Boarder Cross. [5]
Surreau is also a self-taught musician who plays the drums, saxophone and guitar. She is also author and composer. She used to work in Guérande as a salt worker [6] before having to stop because of her disability. [7]
She is now the producer and host of Journal d’une parabadiste, the number one podcast in France about Paralympic sport. [8]