LUNATTI Emma

General
FROM BIATHLON TO ROWING
She competed in both rowing and biathlon from age 12, but gave up rowing to focus on biathlon from 2013 to 2016. She decided to return and commit to rowing in 2017, and believes her experiences in biathlon have contributed to her rowing abilities. In May 2021 she helped secure an Olympic quota place for the French women's quad sculls boat at the Olympic Games in Tokyo at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland. She and her crewmates Violaine Aernoudts, Margaux Bailleul and Marie Jacquet had only formed as a team just over a month before the regatta. "I know there are things I can feel when rowing because of the senses I have developed in biathlon. When you see what we [the women's quad sculls] have managed to do in a month and a half, you have to tell yourself that for the Games, if we work well, we can achieve something. We have nothing to lose. When I look at my career and realise that I am going to the Olympic Games, I tell myself that it happened so fast. Qualifying for the Olympic Games is a huge step in the life of an athlete. It's something huge and it changes a lot of things to realise that I'm going to be an Olympic athlete." (lessportives.fr, 24 May 2021; nordicmag.info, 19 May 2021; lessportives.fr, 24 May 2021)

FURTHER STUDIES
After completing a degree in business administration at the Universite Grenoble Alpes in 2020, she began a master's degree at the Grenoble School of Management, which she expects to graduate from in 2025. (Linkedin profile, 22 May 2021)