Cyrille Maret

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Cyrille Maret (born August 11, 1987 in Dijon ) is a French judoka . He won an Olympic bronze medal in 2016.

Athletic career

In 2003 Maret was U17 European Champion and fifth in the U20 European Championships. The 1.89 m tall athlete mostly competed in the light heavyweight division in the following years. In 2004 he was seventh at the U20 World Championships, and in 2005 he won bronze at the U20 European Championships. In 2006 he won the U20 world championships in light heavyweight, in heavyweight his fellow countryman Teddy Riner , who was two years younger, won .

In 2009 Maret finished second in the Mediterranean Games behind the Egyptian Ramadan Darwish . Just a few days later, he won the title at the Universiade . In 2010, Maret won the French championships for the first time. At the 2011 European Judo Championships , he finished fifth. At the French championships at the end of 2011 he lost to Thierry Fabre , who then represented France at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . At the European Judo Championships in 2013, Maret lost to the Dutchman Henk Grol in the semifinals , and he won the battle for bronze against the Israeli Or Sasson . At the 2013 World Championships , Maret took seventh place. In 2014 he reached the semi-finals again at the European Championships and lost to the Czech Lukáš Krpálek , while Maret won the bronze medal by defeating the German Karl-Richard Frey . At the 2014 World Championships , the Frenchman finished seventh.

The 2015 European Championships were held as part of the European Games in Baku . In the individual competition Maret was again defeated by the Czech Krpálek, in the battle for bronze this time he defeated the German Dimitri Peters . In the team fight, the French team won the title against the Georgian judoka. At the Judo World Championships in 2015 , Maret finished fifth after losing to the Japanese Ryūnosuke Haga and the Belgian Toma Nikiforov . The following year at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Maret was defeated in the semifinals to later Olympic champion Lukáš Krpálek, in the battle for bronze he defeated Karl-Richard Frey. For his third place, he received the Knight's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite on November 30, 2016 .

In 2017 Maret reached the final at the European Championships in Warsaw , but lost there against Elxan Məmmədov from Azerbaijan. A year later, Maret lost to the Belgian Toma Nikiforov at the European Championship finals in Tel Aviv . In 2019, the European Championships were held as part of the European Games in Minsk, Maret won a bronze medal.

French championship title

  • Light Heavyweight: 2010, 2012
  • Heavyweight: 2013, 2016, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Décret du 30 November 2016 portant promotion et nomination. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. November 30, 2016, accessed February 21, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Maret, Cyrille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French judoka
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijon