Cassandre Beaugrand kicks Olympic year off with lightning rapidly 5km time in Derby
Six months out from a home Olympic Games in Paris, French megastar Cassandre Beaugrand clocked an improbable 5km time at the Derby Midweek flee series in the UK.
Closing year, Beaugrand sharpened her flee neatly being at the equivalent event and ran a unheard of 15: 39, however this year managed to pass even quicker at some level of a broad week of training.
Space to flee her first event of the season at WTCS Abu Dhabi in two weeks time, the 26-year-faded appears to be like to be to be like primed for the excellent year of her profession yet.
“Mountainous emotions in a broad week of training”
Coming home in a time of 15: 34, Beaugrand turned into 5 seconds quicker than closing year and done in third role late fellow Loughborough based mostly totally mostly triathlete Sam Hart and Invicta AC athlete Jack Rowley.
![Cassandre Beaugrand WTCS Hamburg 2023 qualifying win Photo credit: Tommy Zaferes](https://www.tri247.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Cassandre-Beaugrand-WTCS-Hamburg-2023-qualifying-win.jpg)
Cementing her role as one among the very top runners in the game, closing year’s WTCS #2 confirmed once extra that she can be a pressure to be reckoned with when the Olympic Games roll round this summer.
After a DNF at the Tokyo Olympic Games three years up to now, Beaugrand will be beneath an broad quantity of rigidity as one among the poster athletes for the host nation on the banks of the River Seine in July.
WTCS Abu Dhabi is the subsequent check
Having done sixth at WTCS Abu Dhabi closing season following her 15: 39 clocking, Beaugrand will be hoping for a finest better performance when she races in the Middle East this year on March 8-9.
Renewing her competition with World Champion Beth Potter, who proved to be the upper athlete over the flee and Olympic distance in 2023, Beaugrand will comprise the likelihood to dimension up one among her predominant competitors for gold in Paris.
![Beth Potter podium Paris test event 2023 [Photo credit: World Triathlon / Wagner Araujo]](https://www.tri247.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Beth-Potter-podium-Paris-test-event-2023.jpg)
If the flee comes the total design down to a fight on the flee, the French megastar will again her foot velocity, namely after this week’s flee. Nonetheless, Potter does boast a enormously quicker 5k avenue private better of 14: 41. With out reference to happens, the flee ought to be a thriller!
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