Carla SENECHAL

26 Jul 1996
25
Female
BORDEAUX
 
France
 
France

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
BOB Bobsleigh 2-woman 13

Schedule

Start Time Location Event Status
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
After Heat 1
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
After Heat 3
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
After Heat 5
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished
Yanqing National Sliding Centre
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Historical Results

World Championships
RankEventYearLocationResult
152-woman2021Altenberg, GER3:51.51
Junior World Championships
RankEventYearLocationResult
82-woman2020Winterberg, GER1:54.70
DNF2-woman2019Koenigssee, GER
World Cup - Best Achievements
Season2-woman
2021/221 x 15th
2020/211 x 5th, 1 x 6th, 1 x 8th
2019/201 x 6th, 1 x 13th
Ten Best World Cup Performances in Current Season
RankEventSeasonLocationResult
152-woman2021/22Innsbruck, AUT1:48.04
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Twin Sisters and The Robbers (with pilot Margot Boch).

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Athlete

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French

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Club Bob Luge Skeleton La Plagne

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Personal: Max Robert (FRA), Bruno Mingeon (FRA)

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Crew

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Athletics: Competed from the age of six as a sprinter.

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2020 World Cup in La Plagne (Two-woman - 6th)

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August 2021: Muscle tear forced her to miss the training weeks at Yanqing prior to the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

2017: Fractured two vertebrae helping push a male pilot without a brakeman.

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Pilot Margot Boch contacted her to take a push test in summer 2018. (ffsg.org, 30 Jul 2021)

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Suffered some injuries in athletics and was not advancing in the sport. "Bobsleigh is a sport that suits me because it's a winter sport, and you need a bit of madness to do it.” (parismatch.com, 18 Nov 2021)

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To place in the top 10 at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games as the first female bobsledders from France. "When we are told that we will potentially be the first French women in the bobsleigh at the Olympics, it gives us chills." (parismatch.com, 18 Nov 2021; 20minutes.fr, 21 Jan 2021)

To win a gold medal at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. (ablock.fr, 30 Dec 2020)

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Finishing sixth in her and Margot Boch's World Cup debut on their home ice at La Plagne in 2020 in front of family and friends. (ablock.fr, 30 Dec 2020)

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Christine Arron (FRA), sprinter. 2003 world champion in the 4x100m relay and bronze medallist at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games in the same event.

Perrine Laffont (FRA), moguls skier. Gold medallist at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

Allyson Felix (USA), sprinter. With 11 Olympic medals, is the most-decorated Team USA athletics athlete of all time, and was able to return to the top of her sport after the birth of her daughter. (parismatch.com, 18 Nov 2021)

General Interest

"TWIN SISTERS"
Senechal and pilot Margot Boch, who initially connected on Facebook, found they had chemistry with each other immediately and, due to their blonde hair, blue eyes, and similar stature - shorter and leaner than most bobsledders - people began asking if they were sisters. "With Margot, we quickly understood, during the first training sessions, that we had the same objectives, the same way of seeing things. We've both always dreamed of doing the Olympics, we're always ready to dream bigger, ready to sacrifice a lot for our sport. Our physical qualities and our characters are complementary and, quite simply, we are friends. We immediately had to live together, 24 hours a day. And it went very well. Our similarities are our strengths." (ablock.fr, 30 Dec 2020; 20minutes.fr, 21 Jan 2021)

WEAKNESS
"We are weak on the push because we have small builds. We are fighting to put on a few pounds. But we are still very far from the German team, with girls who are forces of nature." (lefigaro.fr, 20 Nov 2021)

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Gold Medal Event
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