Aurore Fleury (born 4 December 1993) is a French
middle-distance runner
Middle-distance running events are track races longer than sprints, up to 3000 metres. The standard middle distances are the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run, although the 3000 metres may also be classified as a middle-distance event. The 1 ...
. She is the
2021 French Athletics Championships winner at
1500 metres
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...
, and the
2022 French Indoor Athletics Championships winner over the same distance.
Biography
Originally from
Meuse
The Meuse ( , , , ; wa, Moûze ) or Maas ( , ; li, Maos or ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a t ...
, Fleury studied in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
and competes for the Nancy Athlétisme Métropole club.
She won medals at both the 2019 and 2021
European Cross Country Championships
The European Cross Country Championships is an annual international cross country running competition. Organised by the European Athletic Association, it is the area championships for the region and is held in December each year. The 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
The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the f ...
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 Mediterranean Games and commonly known as Oran ...
, running 4:13 in the 1500 m final.
Statistics
Personal bests
References
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French female middle-distance runners
21st-century French sportswomen
Living people
1993 births
Sportspeople from Meuse (department)
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France