Marie Gayot

Marie Gayot
Marie Gayot (2013)
nation	France
birthday	18th December 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Reims ,  France
size	171 cm
Weight	58 kg
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	50.97 s
society	EFS Reims Athlétisme
Trainer	Hervé Stéphan
National squad	since 2011
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 2 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 1 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
{{Medals summer sports | Where = World Athletics Championships
last change: October 25, 2019

Marie Gayot (born December 18, 1989 in Reims ) is a French athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run . She achieved her greatest international success as a member of the French 4 x 400 meter relay .

Athletic career

After various successes in the youth and junior sector, Gayot took second place in the 400-meter run at the French indoor championships in 2011 and was then nominated for the European Indoor Championships in Paris . In the 4 x 400 meter relay, she won the bronze medal together with Muriel Hurtis , Laetitia Denis and Floria Gueï . In the same year she reached the U23 European Championships in Ostrava together with Clemence Sorgnard, Elea Mariama Diarra and Floria Gueï also the third place in the relay. In the 400-meter run, she finished sixth there.

Gayot achieved her most important international success to date at the European Championships in 2012, when she won the silver medal in the relay with Phara Anacharsis , Lénora Guion Firmin and Floria Gueï. At the Olympic Games in London , the French relay team was sixth in the line-up Anacharsis, Hurtis, Gayot and Gueï.

In 2013, Gayot was left without an international medal. Both at the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg (with Myriam Soumaré , Muriel Hurtis and Phara Anacharsis) and at the World Championships in Moscow (Lénora Guion-Firmin, Muriel Hurtis and Floria Gueï), she took fourth place in the relay competitions. She was also fourth in the relay at the 2014 IAAF World Relays in Nassau with Lenora Guion-Firmin, Agnès Raharolahy and Floria Gueï. She finally won her first title at a major international event at the European Championships in Zurich . As a starting runner, she led the French 4 x 400 meter relay around Muriel Hurtis, Agnès Raharolahy and Floria Gueï to victory. Over 400 meters, she finished seventh in Zurich.

At the 2015 European Indoor Championships in Prague , she led the French relay team led by Floria Gueï, Elea Mariama Diarra and Agnès Raharolahy to victory as the final skier. She was also fifth in the 400-meter run. At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing , she reached the semi-finals, in which she improved her personal best to 50.97 s. With the season she came in seventh place with Estelle Perrossier , Agnès Raharolahy and Floria Gueï. At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , she won the silver medal with the relay.

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  Bronze relay 2011 (2nd from left)

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  French Championships 2013

Web links

Commons : Marie Gayot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marie Gayot in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Marie Gayot in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Homepage of Marie Gayot (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biography of Marie Gayot at the Fédération Française d'Athlétisme (French)