LAMOTE Renelle

Olympic Games

Year	Location	800m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (2:02.19)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	800m
2019	Doha, QAT	SF (2:02.86)
2015	Beijing, CHN	8th (1:59.70)

European Championships

Year	Location	800m
2018	Berlin, GER	2nd (2:00.62)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	800m
2021	1 x 6th
2020	1 x 7th
2019	1 x 4th, 1 x 8th
2018	1 x 8th, 1 x 9th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
4	2019	800m	Birmingham, GBR	2:01.46
6	2021	800m	Monaco, MON	1:57.98
7	2020	800m	Stockholm, SWE	2:02.53
8	2019	800m	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	2:00.40
8	2018	800m	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	1:59.25
9	2018	800m	Monaco, MON	1:58.83

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
4	2021	800m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Hengelo, NED	2:01.02

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Art, drawing, painting, furniture restoration. (squarechamps.com, 04 Mar 2019)

Athlete

Sport Studies

Partner Georges Nicolo

French

Racing Multi Athlon [Fontainebleau, FRA]

Bruno Gajer [personal], from 2019; Gilles Garcia [personal], from 2019

Her younger sister Manon has competed in athletics at national level in France, and was the 2015 U18 national 800m champion. Her partner Georges Nicolo is a French rapper under the stagename 'Georgio'. (worldathletics.org, 27 Jul 2019; laprovence.com, 11 Apr 2020)

She sustained a knee injury [bone edema] in October 2019. She returned to training in December 2019. (lequipe.fr, 16 Dec 2019; athle.fr, 19 Dec 2019)

She struggled with pain in her hip and the Achilles tendon in 2019. (letelegramme.fr, 26 Nov 2019; la1ere.francetvinfo.fr, 10 Aug 2019; lequipe.fr, 27 Jul 2019)

She struggled with injuries following the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro that prevented her from competing for two years. After the Games she struggled with plantar aponeurosis. In April 2017 she was affected by a tear injury in her soleus [calf] muscle and returned to training in August but continued to experience pain. She returned to competition in May 2018. (worldathletics.com, 01 Jan 2020; squarechamps.com, 04 Mar 2019; letelegramme.fr, 26 Nov 2019; trackandlife.fr, 06 Dec 2017)

In December 2015 she suffered a sprained ankle and the following month began to suffer from Achilles tendon inflammation which left her unable to train. She returned to competition in April that year. (trackandlife.fr, 17 Mar 2016; worldathletics.com, 01 Jan 2020)

She got into sport at age six, beginning with classical dance followed by five years of tennis. She joined her first athletics club at age 13 after encouragement from a teacher at school. (healthfit.fr, 01 Jan 2016)

"After winning the cross-country race of my school twice, one of my teachers encouraged me into an elite training structure. I then qualified for the French national [youth] championships, and progressed from there." (sportetstyle.fr, 23 Feb 2016)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (lequipe.fr, 16 Dec 2019)

Coach Thierry Choffin. (squarechamps.com, 04 Mar 2019)

"You have to do all it takes to succeed. My first year was not good but due to my determination and work I managed to get where I am." (squarechamps.com, 04 Mar 2019)

She was named Female Athlete of the Year by the French Athletics Federation in 2019. (lequipe.fr, 08 Jan 2020)

She received the Medal of the City of Fontainebleau in 2015. (leparisien.fr, 14 Oct 2015)