Christine Arron

Christine Arron
Christine Arron in Berlin 2010
nation	France
birthday	13th September 1973 (age 46)
place of birth	Les Abymes ,  Guadeloupe
size	177 cm
Weight	64 kg
Career
discipline	100 m , 200 m
Best performance	10.73 s 22.26 s
society	Lagardère Paris Racing
Trainer	Eric Corenthin
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 1 × 3 × European championships 2 × 1 × 0 × Mediterranean Games 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Athens 2004 4 × 100 m  World championships bronze Athens 1997 4 × 100 m silver Seville 1999 4 × 100 m gold Paris 2003 4 × 100 m bronze Helsinki 2005 100 m bronze Helsinki 2005 200 m  European championships gold Budapest 1998 100 m gold Budapest 1998 4 × 100 m silver Barcelona 2010 4 × 100 m  Mediterranean Games gold Bari 1997 200 m gold Bari 1997 4 × 100 m
last change: April 28, 2017

Christine Arron (born September 13, 1973 in Les Abymes , Guadeloupe ) is a former French athlete who won several medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships in the 100 and 200 meters . In 1998 she became European champion over 100 meters with a European record, and in 2003 she became world champion with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

Life

In 1992 the sprinter was discovered at the Junior World Championships in Seoul and brought to France. There she was trained first by Fernand Urtebise and later by Jacques Piasenta , but her breakthrough only came in 1997. At the World Championships in Athens she was fourth over 100 meters and with the French 4 x 100 meter relay she won bronze. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1998 , she won the European record time of 10.73 seconds over 100 meters, making her the third fastest woman of all time. She also won gold with the relay. As a result, Arron was voted Europe's athlete of the year .

After that she celebrated successes especially in the season. In 1999 at the World Championships in Seville she won the silver medal with the 4 x 100 meter relay and the relay was fourth at the Olympic Games in Sydney . After a brief stint in the United States in 2001 with coach John Smith , she became the mother of a son in 2002 and made her comeback in 2003 under her new coach, Guy Ontanon . At the 2003 World Championships in Paris , she became the relay world champion, and at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she won the team bronze medal in the 4 x 100 meter relay together with her teammates Véronique Mang , Muriel Hurtis and Sylviane Félix .

At the 2007 World Championships

At the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 , she was considered the favorite in the finals, as she ran the fastest time in the qualifying rounds until the finals. However, she could not improve significantly in the final, achieved a time of 10.98 s and had to be content with the bronze medal, behind the winner Lauryn Williams (USA) and the second Veronica Campbell (JAM). Even the 200-meter final did not bring her the gold medal she had longed for. She won her second bronze medal. Allyson Felix (USA) became world champion .

At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , Arron was sixth over 100 meters. In 2010 Arron won the silver medal at the European Championships with the French relay team, and in the individual race she came eighth. At the European Championships in 2012, she came in fifth again with the relay. At the end of the season, she announced her resignation.

In an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung prior to the 2005 World Championships, she answered yes to the question of whether 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 can say that, frankly" she indirectly accused the two fastest women over 100 meters, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Marion Jones, of doping. At the beginning of 2008, after Marion Jones was exposed, she repeated these statements in an interview with L'Équipe .

Christine Arron had a competition weight of 64 kg with a height of 1.77 m. In March 2008, shortly after the unrest in Tibet , she was among the first to sign an appeal by French athletes to the Chinese government to respect human rights . She has been in a relationship with the French triple jumper Benjamin Compaoré since 2010 . In 2013 she had her second child, a daughter.

Personal bests

• 100 m: 10.73 s, August 19, 1998 in Budapest
  • 60 m (hall): 7.06 s, February 26, 2006 in Aubière
• 200 m: 22.26 s, 3 July 1999 in Saint-Denis
  • 200 m (hall): 22.69 s, February 26, 2005 in Liévin

Web links

Commons : Christine Arron  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Christine Arron in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Athlete portrait at the Fédération française d'athlétisme
• Christine Arron in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Jessica Ennis is Europe's Athlete of the Year , www.leichtathletik.de October 4, 2012
2. ↑ Silke Bernhart: “Grande Dame” of the sprint says goodbye , www.leichtathletik.de December 17, 2012
3. ↑ n-tv : True 100 m world record holder - Arron considers herself the best , August 5, 2005
4. ↑ The Times : Do cheats prosper? Just look at the record books , July 11, 2008
5. ↑ Le Nouvel Observateur : Des athlètes français lancent un appel au président chinois ( Memento of the original of July 24, 2008 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. , March 26, 2008