GRANGEON de VILLELE Lara

21 Sep 1991
29
Female
NOUMEA
 
France
MONTPELLIER
 
France

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
OWS Marathon Swimming Women's 10km 9

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Odaiba Marine Park
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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MARATHON SWIMMING

World Championships
YearLocation5km10km25km5km - TR X
2019Gwangju, KOR9436
2017Budapest, HUN--13-

European Championships
YearLocation5km10km25km5km - TR X
2020Budakalasz, HUN4924
2018Glasgow, GBR8633

World Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017
Year10km
20211 x 18th
20201 x 15th
20191 x 3rd
20182 x 12th
20171 x 13th, 1 x 21st

World Series - Ten best performances since 2017
RankYearEventLocation
3201910kmBeau Vallon, SEY
12201810kmAbu Dhabi, UAE
12201810kmDoha, QAT
13201710kmHong Kong, CHN
15202010kmDoha, QAT
18202110kmDoha, QAT
21201710kmAbu Dhabi, UAE


Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

SWIMMING

Olympic Games
YearLocation200Fly400IndMed
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRAH (2:09.69)H (4:43.98)
2012London, GBR-H (4:44.28)

World Championships
YearLocation200Fly200IndMed400IndMed
2015Kazan, RUSSF (2:08.67)H (2:13.50)8th (4:40.98)
2011Shanghai, CHN--H (4:47.41)
2009Rome, ITA--H (4:46.93)

World Championships Short Course
YearLocation200Fly400IndMed
2018Hangzhou, CHN4th (2:04.91)5th (4:29.56)


Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final
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Food, dancing, music, sport. (Twitter profile, 17 May 2021)
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Athlete
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Sports Science - University of Perpignan, France
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English, French, Spanish
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AAS Sarcelles Natation 95 [France]
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Philippe Lucas [personal], FRA, from 2020
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Her sister Alexandra Grangeon has competed in modern pentathlon at national level. (insep.fr, 18 Dec 2015; stade-montois.org, 01 Jan 2018)
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She has also competed in pool swimming internationally, including at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 Sep 2020)
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She first swam at a baby swimmers class at six months old. She began to focus on open water swimming in 2016. (lecrampon.com, 03 Feb 2019)
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Her older sister had already started swimming. She tried other sports but was best at swimming. "When I am in the water I love the feeling of challenging myself." (lecrampon.com, 03 Feb 2019; france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 16 Dec 2019)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 16 Dec 2019)
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Competing at the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016. (lecrampon.com, 03 Feb 2019)
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"Always faster, higher, stronger." (lecrampon.com, 03 Feb 2019)

General Interest

General
COACHING CHANGES
In September 2019 she decided to stop swimming at the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance [INSEP] in Paris, France, and began training under Damien Cattin-Vidal at the Vikings de Rouen club. "I learnt a lot of things at INSEP, and I trained to perform at my best. But I was not listened to there, and that was what I was really looking for." In July 2020, after the Olympic Games in Tokyo were postponed, she changed coach again and joined Philippe Lucas' training group based in Montpellier. She had previously worked with Lucas in 2018. "I'm still 100% focused on the Games. I want to do all I can to perform there and I think that Philippe is the ideal person for me to achieve that." (france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, 16 Dec 2019; lequipe.fr, 28 Jul 2020)

SWITCH TO OPEN WATER
She competed in the pool at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, but in 2016 began competing in open water swimming. "I've always loved to swim [in the pool], but after two Olympic Games, I felt like I had done that discipline and wanted to try something else. I've always liked swimming in open water, so I said, 'Let's give it a go'." (lecrampon.com, 03 Feb 2019; swimswam.com, 16 Jul 2019)

LEAVING NEW CALEDONIA
She was born in Noumea, New Caledonia, but left at age 14 to pursue her swimming career. "It was not easy to leave my family, my friends. But afterwards I knew that it was the only solution to compete at a high level. My parents always supported me in my choices and New Caledonia helped me too. I really wanted to progress and go as far as I could in swimming and I knew it could only happen if I gave myself the means. For that I had to leave because at the time there was no setup there for sport studies. Now there is a centre in New Caledonia and the government there is making a lot of effort for New Caledonian sport." (lecrampon.com, 03 Feb 2019)

FURTHER STUDIES
Following her studies at the University of Perpignan in France, she has also earned a business administration degree from the EDHEC Business School. She also holds a master's degree in management of sports organisations and services from Aix-Marseille University. (LinkedIn profile, 01 May 2021; edhec.edu, 26 Jul 2016)

Legend
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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