Christine Arron
Christine Arron (* September 13 1973 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe ) is a French former track athlete who in 100 - winning several medals at the Olympics and World Championships and 200 -meter run. In 1998, she was with a European record European champion over 100 meters and 2003 with the 4 x 100 - meter relay world champion.
Life
In 1992, the sprinter was discovered at the Junior World Championships in Seoul and brought to France. There she was first trained by Fernand Urtebise and later by Jacques Piasenta, but the breakthrough came only in 1997. At the World Championships in Ahten, she finished fourth on 100 m and with the French 4 x 100 - meter relay team won bronze. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1998 they won the European record time of 10.73 s in the 100 meters, making it the third fastest woman of all time. She also won gold in the relay. Then Arron was voted European athlete of the year.
Then they celebrated primarily in the season successes. At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, she won the 4 x 100 - meter relay and a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney, the season was fourth. After a brief stint in 2001 in the United States with coach John Smith in 2002, she was the mother of a son and in 2003 had their comeback under its new coach Guy Ontanon. At the World Championships in Paris in 2003, she was relay world champion, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the team bronze medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay along with teammates Véronique Mang Muriel Hurtis and Sylviane Félix.
At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 it was regarded as the favorite in the finals, as they in the qualifying rounds ran the fastest time in each case until the final. However, they could no longer increase in the final decisive reached a time of 10.98 s and had to settle for the bronze medal, behind the winner, Lauryn Williams ( USA) and the Second Veronica Campbell ( JAM). Also, the 200 - meter final, do not you brought the coveted gold medal. She won her second bronze medal. World champion Allyson Felix was (USA).
At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka was Arron Sixth about 100 m. 2010 Arron won the European Championships with the French relay silver medal in the individual competition she came in eighth place. At the European Championships in 2012 they came up with the squadron again in fifth. At the end of the season, she announced her departure.
In an interview before the 2005 World Cup with the Süddeutsche Zeitung, she said yes, if she was the "true world record holder ." With the words " Yes, if you look at the girls who are in front of me - yes, you could say that, frankly, " she threw the two fastest women in the 100 meters Florence Griffith Joyner and Marion Jones doping indirectly ago. In early 2008, after Marion Jones was unmasked, she repeated, mutatis mutandis, these statements in an interview with L' Équipe.
Christine Arron had a competition weight of 64 kg at a height of 1.77 m. In March 2008, shortly after the riots in Tibet, she was one of the first signatories of an appeal by French athletes to the Chinese government to respect human rights. Since 2010 she is in a relationship with the French triple jumper Benjamin Compaoré. In 2013 she had her second child, a daughter.
Personal Best
- 200 meters ( indoor ): 22.69 seconds, 26 February, 2005 Liévin