Mathilde Andraud (born 28 April 1989, in

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

) is a French

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who is a specialist in the javelin throw. She was French junior champion in 2008, then Under-21 champion in 2011. She won five national titles in the javelin at the

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, in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. She set a personal best of on 18 July 2014 in Monaco, but this distance did not reach the minimum distance (60 m) to participate in the Zurich European Championships. In 2015, she improved her personal best under disastrous weather conditions disastrous to . However, she missed qualifying for the World championships in Beijing by 40 centimetres. At the end of the 2016 season, she quit her coach, Magali Brisseault, to train at

with Jean-Yves Cochand and at

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with Werner Daniels, the coach of the legendary Christina Obergföll.

International competitions

National titles

**Javelin throw: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

Records

References

External links

* 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Montpellier French female javelin throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for France 21st-century French sportswomen {{France-javelin-bio-stub