Audrey Merle

0 Audrey Merle
at the ITU European Championship in Kitzbühel, 2014
Personal information
Date of birth	19th May 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Clermont-Ferrand, France
size	153 cm
Weight	45 kg
societies
Current	TCG 79 Parthenay
successes
2014	Vice European Champion Junior Triathlon
2015	World champion U23 triathlon
2015	World Champion Team Sprint Triathlon
status
active

Audrey Merle (born May 19, 1995 in Clermont-Ferrand ) is a French triathlete . She is a member of the national team, junior vice-European champion (2014), team world champion on the sprint distance (2015) and U23 world champion on the Olympic short distance (2015).

Career

Audrey Merle studies at the UFR STAPS Université de Montpellier .

In June 2014 she became French junior state champion and in Kitzbühel she was junior runner-up in the European triathlon championship just three weeks later.
In August she also won the bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in Canada. She became the U23 world champion in the Olympic short distance (1.5 km swimming, 40 km cycling and 10 km running).

U23 world champion triathlon 2015

In July 2015 she became the triathlon world champion in the team classification in Hamburg and in September she became the U23 world champion in the Olympic short distance.

After initially for the 2016 Summer Olympics nominated Emmie Charayron will not go for health reasons for France at the start, was Audrey Merle from FFTRI. nominated as a substitute starter. She started on August 20, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro with Cassandre Beaugrand for France and finished 35th.

Merle starts for Club TCG 79 Parthenay , she is trained by Stephanie Déanaz-Gros and lives in Montpellier . Her sister Célia Merle (born March 18, 1999), who is four years her junior , is also successful as a triathlete.

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Audrey Merle's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on March 16, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Merle marvels to win U23 world championship (September 18, 2015)
2. ↑ Emmie Charayron renonce aux Jeux olympiques pour "raisons mediales" (July 5, 2016)
3. ↑ Aquathlon - Célia, une Merle peut en cacher une autre (July 21, 2015)
4. ↑ Triathlon World Championship: Junior Laura Lindemann wins gold (August 30, 2014)
5. ↑ Triathlete Laura Lindemann is Junior World Champion (August 30, 2014)
6. ↑ Championnat d'Europe: Audrey Merle et Cassandre Beaugrand médaillées! ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (June 20, 2014) 
7. ↑ Triathlon splitter: Böcherer third in Alpe d'Huez