Christelle Daunay

Daunay at the Paris Marathon in 2009

Christelle Daunay (born 5 December 1974 in Le Mans, Sarthe) is a French long distance runner who specialises in road running. She is the current French marathon record holder. She represented France at the 2008 Summer Olympics and has competed a number of times in the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. She has had top-three finishes in the New York Marathon, Paris Marathon and the Course Paris-Versailles

Biography

Christelle Daunay started athletics at the age of 11. She ran track races between 3,000 metres and 10,000 metres, cross country competitions, the half marathon and marathon.

Since 2005 she has been affiliated to the SCO Sainte-Marguerite (Marseille) ("Sports and Cultural Society of Sainte-Marguerite (Marseille)"). In February 2006 she put her career as a physiotherapist on hold in order to prepare full-time for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

With her time of 2 hours 28 minutes and 24 seconds on 27 January 2008 at the Osaka Ladies Marathon^[1] (10th place), she not only beat the previous French record established by Chantal Dällenbach, but also qualified for the marathon in the 2008 Olympics. This was her second major marathon, her first being the Paris Marathon in 2007 where she came third with a time of 2:28:54.

She came in 20th in the women's marathon at the 2008 Olympic Games, with a time of 2:31:48.

She came third in the 2009 Paris Marathon setting a new French national record of 2:25:43, beating her previous record time set in 2008. In 2009 Daunay entered in her first New York Marathon. She came third with a time of 2:29:16. She further improved her French record at the 2010 Paris Marathon, in which she ran a time of 2:24:22 for second place.^[2]

She was the runner-up at the Great Manchester Run in May 2011, finishing behind the home-favourite Helen Clitheroe.^[3] A month later she took the silver medal at the European Cup 10000m, just missing the French record with a personal best run of 31:44.84 minutes for the distance.^[4]

Achievements

Daunay (left) next to Kim Smith at the 2010 New York City Marathon

Olympics

• 2008 Olympic Games at Peking - 20th place

International Marathons

• New York Marathon of (2009) - 3rd place
• Paris Marathon of (2009) - 3rd place
• Paris Marathon of (2010) - 2nd place
• Osaka Marathon of (2008) - 10th place
• Paris Marathon of (2007) - 3rd place
• Prom'classic de Nice (10 km race) - first place in 2007, first place in 2008
• 10 km de la Corrège - first place in 2007
• Paris-Versailles, course de 16.3 km - 2nd place in 2007
• French Champion, half-marathon - 2004

Cross-country

• French Champion, cross country - 2007, 2009
• French Championships of 2008 - 3rd place

Track

• French Champion at 10,000 m 2006, 2008, 2009
• French Champion at 5,000 m (2003 and 2004)

Personal Best

• Marathon : 2 h 24 min 22 s (NR, 11 April 2010)
• Half-marathon : 1 h 08 min 34 s (NR, 17 October 2010)
• 10 km on road : 31 min 59 s (15 mai 2011) Manchester (UK)
• 10,000 m : 31 min 44s 84 (4 juin 2011) Oslo
• 5 000 m : 15 min 24s 48 (30 mai 2010) Hengelo (Pays-Bas)
• 3,000 m : 9 min 02 s 16 (18 juin 2011) Stockholm (suede)

See also

• French Athletics Foundation - Christelle Daunay NB: Machine translation, original text in French

References

1. ^ Classement de l'édition 2008 (French)
2. ^ Vazel, Pierre Jean (2010-04-11). 2:22:03 World lead for Baysa, Tola improves to 2:06:37 - Paris Marathon report. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-04-11.
3. ^ Wenig, Jorg (2011-05-15). Gebrselassie takes fourth Manchester 10Km victory, Clitheroe surprises. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-27.
4. ^ Portugal double victory at the European Cup 10000m. European Athletics (2011-06-04). Retrieved on 2011-06-05.

External links

• IAAF profile for Christelle Daunay
• marathoninfo
• sports-reference

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