 Tom Reux in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | French |
| Born | 24 February 1999 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Discus |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | Discus: 67.91m (2024) |
Tom Reux (born 24 February 1999) is a French discus thrower. He won the French national championships title in 2021 and 2023. [1]
He won the discus throw at the 2021 French Athletics Championships in Angers, with a mark of 60.68 metres. [2]
He won his second national title in 2023 with a throw of 59.88 metres at the 2023 French Athletics Championships in Albi. [3]
On May 18, 2024 at the Martinique Meeting in Fort-de-France, he improved his personal record by more than six metres and achieved the second best French performance of all time with 67.91m throw. [4]
He competed in the discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [5] [6]
From Saint-Malo in Brittany, he trains in Dinard whilst living in Saint-Benoît-des-Ondes in the bay of Mont Saint-Michel. [7]
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