Monique Éwanjé-Épée

Monique Éwanjé - Épée (after marriage Tourret, in second marriage Lewin, born July 11, 1967 in Poitiers) is a former French hurdler whose special route was the 100-meter distance.

Career

At the Junior European Championships 1985, she won the 100m hurdles and was sixth in the heptathlon. From then on she focused on the hurdles. At the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, she was seventh in 13.14 s. In the Indoor Athletics Championships in 1989 in The Hague she finished in 8.22 s in the 60 - meter hurdles fifth place. A year later, she won silver behind the s Russian Ludmila Naroschilenko in 7.72 s at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 7.84 in the summer at the European Athletics Championships in Split she won in 12.79 seconds before Gloria Siebert from the GDR in 12.91 s

At the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Seville in 1991, she won in 7.90 s silver again. On Naroschilenko she had only 0.02 seconds behind time. At the World Championships in Tokyo, she was s fourth with 15 hundredths of a second behind bronze in 12.84. The following year she won in Genoa at the European Indoor Championships in Genoa in 7.99 s silver behind again Naroschilenko. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​she was disqualified in the flow.

After the birth of her first daughter she reached at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona in 1995 again the final and was in 7.98 s fourth. Your last medal at a major event she won at the 1996 European Indoor Championships in Stockholm. In 8.09 s, it was a third party. At the Olympic Games in Atlanta, she reached the quarter-finals.

Monique Éwanjé - Épée is 1.74 m and weighed in their active life of 65 kg.

Personal

She was born the daughter of a Cameroonian father and a French. Her older sister Maryse Éwanjé - Épée was a successful high jumper. 1991 married Monique Éwanjé - Épée the pole vaulter Christophe Tourret. 1993 their daughter Marylou and 1997 their second daughter Olivia was born. Today, she is married to gospel singer Frederick Lewin, their son Joachim came in 2006 to the world.

Personal best

  • 60m hurdles (Hall ): 7.82 s, February 23, 1991, Paris
  • 100m hurdles: 12.56 s, June 29, 1990, Villeneuve d'Ascq
France 1989 European Athletics Indoor Championships 1990 European Athletics Indoor Championships Ludmila Engquist 1990 European Athletics Championships 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships 1991 World Championships in Athletics 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships 1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships Karin Balzer Annelie Ehrhardt Johanna Schaller Susanna Kallur
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