Emmie Charayron


Emmie Charayron, also known as Emma Charayron, is a French professional triathlete, European Champion of the year 2011, ten time French Champion in various age categories, and both European and World Junior Champion in 2009, and U23 World Championship bronze medalist in 2010.
Charayron is part of ECS Triathlon club and she ia also a member of the French Military Triathlon team , which is part of the Ecoles militaires de Draguignan, and holds the grade soldat 1re classe.

Sports career

In 1997 Emmie Charayron, who is still trained by her father Philippe Charayron, took part in her first triathlon in Vaulx-en-Velin and since then she has won ten national championships in various age categories. Since 2006 she has regularly taken part in ITU competitions, since 2007 she has regularly won gold medals and in 2008, at the age of 18, she also started to compete in the Elite class most successfully. In 2009, she not only placed first in the Junior European and the Junior World Championships, but also won medals in Elite European Cups: silver in Quarteira and bronze in Athlone.
The French media often depict Charayron, the 2009 Junior World Champion, and Charlotte Morel, the 2009 and 2010 National U23 Champion, as the rising stars to count on in international competitions, not least the Olympics in London 2012. An example of this is the leading French magazine Triathlète dedicating its famous double page column called Confrontation to Morel and Charayron in November 2009.
At the first European Cup of the year 2010 in Quarteira, Charayron placed second whilst Morel, still hampered by an injury, finished 22nd. At the World Championship Series triathlon in Madrid, Charayron won the silver medal, whereas Morel did not take part and at the U23 World Championship in Budapest Charayron won the bronze medal whereas Morel had to give up after a bike accident due to the torrential rain. At the French Championships in Charleville on 20 June 2010 Morel had won the U23 gold medal and Charayron had to settle for U23 silver.
At the French Championships in Villiers-sur-Loir on 24 September 2011, Morel again won the U23 title whereas Charayron placed second in the U23 ranking and third in the overall ranking.

French Club Championship Series

Thanks to Emmie Charayron, in 2009 her French triathlon club Brive Limousin placed eighth in the prestigious French Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux and achieved this top-ten placement without hiring foreign champions. The winning club, Beauvais, however, owed its success almost exclusively to the international stars Hollie Avil, Anja Dittmer, Andrea Hewitt and Vickie Holland.
Emmie Charayron took part in four of the five Lyonnaise des Eaux competitions in 2009 and in three of them she won U23 medals: in Dunkirk she placed 1st, in Beauvais 2nd, in Paris Longchamp 4th and in La Baule 3rd.
Thus Charyaron managed to outdo Charlotte Morel, her greatest national rival running for Beauvais, at least in the three Lyonnaise triathlons where both were in the race: Dunkirk, Beauvais, and Paris Longchamp.
From 2010 to 2013 Emmie Charayron represents Lagardère Paris Racing.
In 2010, however, due to her World Championship Series commitment, Charayron did not take part in the Lyonnaise competitions in France.

ITU Competitions

In the five years from 2006 to 2010 Emmie Charayron took part in 24 ITU competitions and achieved 16 top ten positions, among which 11 medals.
In the ITU ranking of the year 2010 Charayron was number 22 among the best 63 female U23 triathletes of the world, although she took part in only one race.
The following list is based upon the official ITU rankings and the athlete's Profile Page. Unless indicated otherwise, the following competitions are triathlons and belong to the Elite category.
DateCompetitionPlaceRank
2006-06-23 European Championships Autun15
2006-10-07 Duathlon European Championships Rimini4
2007-06-29 European Championships Copenhagen10
2007-08-30 BG World Championships Hamburg16
2007-10-24 European Cup Alanya1
2008-05-10 European Championships Lisbon1
2008-06-05 BG World Championships Vancouver22
2008-07-12 European CupAthlone5
2008-09-06 European Championships Pulpí18
2008-09-27 BG World CupLorient18
2008-10-26 Premium European CupAlanya1
2009-04-05 European CupQuarteira2
2009-06-20 European Championships Tarzo Revine3
2009-07-02 European Championships Holten1
2009-07-18 European CupAthlone3
2009-08-15 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesLondon15
2009-09-09 Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand Final: World Championships Gold Coast1
2009-10-25 Premium European CupAlanya8
2010-04-11 European CupQuarteira2
2010-06-05 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesMadrid2
2010-07-03 European ChampionshipsAthlone9
2010-07-24 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesLondon14
2010-08-14 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesKitzbühelDNF
2010-09-11 World Championships Budapest3
2011-04-09 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesSydney35
2011-05-08 World CupMonterrey10
2011-06-04 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesMadrid3
2011-06-24 European ChampionshipsPontevedra1
2011-07-16 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesHamburg28
2011-08-06 Dextro Energy World Championship SeriesLondon10
2011-08-20 Sprint World ChampionshipsLausanne9
2011-08-21 Team World ChampionshipLausanne4
2011-09-09 Dextro Energy World Championship Series, Grand FinalBeijing40

BG = the sponsor British Gas • DNS = did not start • DNF = did not finish