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Aurore Fleury
Aurore Fleury (born 4 December 1993) is a French middle-distance runner. She is the 2021 French Athletics Championships winner at 1500 metres, and the 2022 French Indoor Athletics Championships winner over the same distance. Biography Originally from Meuse, Fleury studied in Paris and competes for the Nancy Athlétisme Métropole club. She won medals at both the 2019 and 2021 European Cross Country Championships, both times in the mixed relay. In 2021, Fleury was considered the top French 1500 m runner, but in 2022 she was sidelined by a knee injury. At the 2022 Rabat Diamond League, Fleury missed the 2022 World Athletics Championships standard in the 1500 m by just 58 hundredths of a second. Fleury won her first international gold medal at the 2022 Mediterranean Games The 2022 Mediterranean Games ( ar, ألعاب البحر الأبيض المتوسط 2022, links=, lit=, translit=ʾAlʿāb al-Baḥr al-ʾAbyaḍ al-Mutawassiṭ 2022), officially known as the XIX Mediterr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics (sport)
Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and racewalking. The results of racing events are decided by finishing position (or time, where measured), while the jumps and throws are won by the athlete that achieves the highest or furthest measurement from a series of attempts. The simplicity of the competitions, and the lack of a need for expensive equipment, makes athletics one of the most common types of sports in the world. Athletics is mostly an individual sport, with the exception of relay races and competitions which combine athletes' performances for a team score, such as cross country. Organized athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC. The rules and format of the modern events in athletics were defined in Western Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th century, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
