Mathilde Gros

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Mathilde Gros (2017)
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Full name Mathilde Frederique Helene Marie Gros
Date of birth October 24, 1999
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Train (short term)
Societies)
US Créteil
Most important successes
UCI track world championships

2019 bronze - Sprint

UEC European Rail Championships
2018, 2019 European Champion 2016 - Keirin
Last updated: March 9, 2020

Mathilde Frederique Helene Marie Gros (born October 24, 1999 in Salon-de-Provence ) is a French cyclist who specializes in short-term disciplines on the track . The French cycling federation FFC described the strength of Gros as a “mixture of freshness and serenity”.

Athletic career

At the age of three, Mathilde Gros began playing basketball , which she did intensively for 13 years with the aim of becoming a professional player. During a training camp in 2012, she climbed a Wattbike . Her performance was so impressive that her masseur informed the French cycling association FFC . In 2014 she was invited to a test by the association. She was then offered to participate in a program of the Institut national du sport (INSEP) to prepare for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo .

In 2015 Gros became French junior champion in the sprint and 500-meter time trial . In 2016 Mathilde Gros became two-time junior European champion in the sprint and 500-meter time trial. In the same year, at the age of 17, she was able to win two national championship titles in the Keirin and in the time trial.

In 2017, Gros started in the international elite in two races of the Track Cycling World Cup and finished eighth in the overall ranking of the Keirin World Cup. At the UEC European Track Championships for Juniors / U23 2017 she won the sprint, keirin and time trial titles, and in the team sprint she was runner- up with Melissandre Pain . In the same year she became two-time French champion in the 500-meter time trial, both in the elite and in the juniors. In the elite women's race, she set a new junior record with 34.607 seconds, which Sandie Clair had previously held since 2006 . Clair finished second in this race. At the 2017 UEC European Elite Championships in Berlin, she won the silver medal in the sprint behind Kristina Vogel .

At the UEC European Rail Championships in Glasgow in 2018 , Mathilde Gros won two medals: She won the title in the Keirin and the bronze medal in the sprint. The following year she finished third in the sprint at the World Railroad Championships in Pruszków, Poland, and second at the European Games . In addition, she became two-time European champion in 2019: at the U23 European championships in the 500-meter time trial and at the European champion of the elite in the Keirin.

successes

2015
  • MaillotFra.PNG French junior champion - sprint, 500 meter time trial
2016
2017
2018
2019

Web links

Commons : Mathilde Gros  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hervé Bombrun: Mathilde Gros: "Je vais plonger dans le grand bain". (No longer available online.) In: Fédération Française de Cyclisme. Archived from the original on February 27, 2017 ; Retrieved on February 26, 2017 (French). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ffc.fr
  2. ↑ Boris Zimine: Gros braquée sur Tokyo. (No longer available online.) In: Langues de bois. January 4, 2015, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved on February 26, 2017 (French). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / languesdebois.com
  3. ↑ Mathilde Gros, une qui novice vite apprend. In: La Gazette des Sports. July 29, 2015, accessed February 26, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ Cyclisme: Mathilde Gros titrée on 500 m aux Championnats de France sur piste. (No longer available online.) In: france24.com. August 13, 2017, archived from the original on August 13, 2017 ; accessed on August 13, 2017 (French). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.france24.com
personal data
SURNAME Gros, Mathilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gros, Mathilde Frederique Helene Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Salon-de-Provence