Floria Gueï

Floria Gueï
Floria Gueï at the 2016 European Championships
nation	France
birthday	2nd May 1990 (age 30)
place of birth	Nantes ,  France
size	166 cm
Weight	52 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	50.84 s
society	Entente Sud Lyonnais
Trainer	Djamel Boudebibah
National squad	since 2010
status	active
Medal table
European championships 1 × 4 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 2 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships silver Helsinki 2012 4 × 400 m gold Zurich 2014 4 × 400 m silver Amsterdam 2016 400 m silver Amsterdam 2016 4 × 400 m silver Berlin 2018 4 × 400 m  European Indoor Championships bronze Paris 2011 4 × 400 m gold Prague 2015 4 × 400 m gold Belgrade 2017 400 m  U23 European Championships bronze Ostrava 2011 4 × 400 m
last change: August 14, 2018

Floria Gueï (born May 2, 1990 in Nantes ) is a French athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run . She achieved her greatest successes with the French 4 x 400 meter relay .

Athletic career

After success in the youth and junior division, she was a member of the French 4 x 400 meter relay for the first time at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona , but was not used in the final. At the European Indoor Championships in Paris she won the bronze medal together with Muriel Hurtis , Laetitia Denis and Marie Gayot . In the same year she reached third place at the U23 European Championships in Ostrava together with Clemence Sorgnard, Elea Mariama Diarra and Marie Gayot.

At the European Championships in 2012 she won the silver medal with Phara Anacharsis , Lénora Guion Firmin and Marie Gayot and at the Olympic Games in London the French relay was sixth in the line-up of Phara Anacharsis, Muriel Hurtis, Marie Gayot and Floria Gueï. At the World Championships in Moscow (Lénora Guion-Firmin, Muriel Hurtis and Marie Gayot) she took fourth place. At the IAAF World Relays 2014 in Nassau, Gueï came fourth with Lenora Guion-Firmin, Agnès Raharolahy and Marie Gayot.

Floria Gueï finally won her first title at a major international event at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich . As the final runner, she led the French 4 x 400 meter relay around Muriel Hurtis, Agnès Raharolahy and Marie Gayot to victory when she was able to track the three runners in front of her from Ukraine, Russia and Great Britain in the last 100 meters .

Gueï was also able to win the gold medal with the French relay team at the 2015 European Indoor Championships in Prague with Elea Mariama Diarra, Agnes Raharolahy and Marie Gayot. At the IAAF World Relays 2015 , the relay team with Lénora Guion-Firmin, Marie Gayot, Elea Mariama Diarra and Gueï came fourth, as in the previous year. In July 2015, Floria Gueï improved her personal best to 51.09 s and then to 50.90 s. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, it increased to 50.89 s and reached the semi-finals. With the season she came in seventh place with Estelle Perrossier , Marie Gayot and Agnès Raharolahy.

Gueï started the 2016 Olympic year with an improvement in her 200-meter indoor best time to 23.23 seconds. In the open-air season, too, she set a new 200-meter best time of 23.06 seconds, and in June 2016 she increased her personal 400-meter record at the Diamond League meeting in Birmingham to 50.84 seconds. At the European Championships in Amsterdam in 2016 , she won the silver medal in the individual race and with the French relay. At the 2017 European Indoor Championships , Gueï improved her personal best and won the gold medal over 400 meters and finished fifth with the French relay.

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  Bronze relay 2011

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  DecaNation 2014

Best times

• 200 m: 23.00 s, June 1, 2016 in Geneva
  • 200 m (hall): 23.23 s, January 31, 2016 in Lyon
• 400 m: 50.84 s on June 5, 2016 in Birmingham
  • 400 m (hall): 51.90 s, March 4, 2017 in Belgrade

Web links

Commons : Floria Gueï  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Floria Gueï in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Floria Gueï in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait of Floria Gueï at the FFA (French)
• Floria Gueï's website (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ French runner stages epic comeback in final leg of 4x400 race usatoday.com August 19, 2014
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2016 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.