This is the great return of the Sports Trophies. Like every year, La Dépêche du Midi will reward athletes who have marked the news in our departments. These Sports Trophies are organized in partnership with the Occitanie Region.
Like every year, The Midi Dispatch honors the champions of Occitania through its famous Sports Trophies. Despite a year 2021 again marked by the health crisis, many players in the sports world have reported themselves last year. In order to determine which ones deserve to be rewarded, we are submitting to the vote the names of athletes from 7 departments in the region, divided into six categories which will be submitted to your choice gradually until March 1st.
This Thursday, February 24, it is for the sportswoman of the year that you can vote. For that, go to the bottom of this article, and to vote for other categories, play again! The other categories are coming in the coming days. The results will be revealed during a major ceremony organized in March in Montpellier.
Haute-Garonne: Jona Aigouy, javelin thrower
A busy season!
Jona Aigouy.
“For now, the past season is the best of my career. Jona Aigouy (22 years old, CA Balma) can indeed be proud of his 2021 chapter with a double (hopes and seniors) at the French winter long throw championships, a 4th place in the European Team Throws Cup (hopes ), a silver medal (for his first among seniors) in the European Team Cup, a first coronation in France Elite and finally bronze in Europe U23. “The only downside was not having won the France hopefuls record”, specifies this student in 2nd year of psychology, started in athletics at the age of 6 at the Millau club. Affected in the right knee, the pupil of David and Magali Brisseault, based at Creps de Boulouris / Saint-Raphaël, had to give up on the winter season. This year, the new ambassador “Boissière et Fils” (a construction company that favors eco-responsibility) is aiming to qualify for the European championships scheduled for August in Munich.
Ariège: Mathilde Mignier, world savate boxing champion
Undefeated since 2013
Mathilde Mignier.
Her record speaks for itself: 4 world champion titles, 5 European champion titles and 12 gold medals at the French championships. A few weeks ago, on the Gannat ring (Allier; Rhône Alpes Region), the Couserannaise, who has always been a member of the Couserans Multi-Boxes, once again demonstrated her superiority by dominating her Croatian opponent in the final. A new title of world champion in combat. Assault, fight, France, Europe, World, the Ariégeoise is undefeated in competition since 2013. An exceptional record which earned her to be honored by the French Savate Boxing Federation. In Gannat, its president, Joël Dhumez surprised him by joining her in the ring to present him with the Golden Glove (in fact a medal). ” I did not expect that. It was a big surprise and an honor. It moved me. As her career draws to a close, Mathilde Mignier never stops splashing her discipline in her class.
Hautes-Pyrénées: Morgane Dehaye, quadruple Kempô World Champion
Morgane, who rubs shoulders with it, takes a liking to it
Morgane Dehaye.
The Tarbaise Morgane Dehaye is only 24 years old, but is already one of the top names in her kempô discipline, having won four World Championship titles at the last World Championships, at the end of October, in Turkey.
The member of Bushido 65, club of Tarbes, imposed her talent and won the gold medals gold medal in kenpô submission, kenpô knock down, full kenpô and in kenpô MMA ((Mixed Martial Arts, combat sport associating many disciplines, ranging from judo to Thai boxing, including wrestling, legalized in France since 2020).
Morgane Dehaye also practices in her club as a coach (including a graduate of a BPJEPS bodybuilding-weightlifting), but does not intend to stop the competition in such a good way since the champion dreams of registering her name alongside that of Ronda Rousey, the star of the discipline.
Tarn-et-Garonne: Audrey Forlani, second line of Blagnac, French team
The Roaring 50th
Audrey Forlani.
La Beaumontoise is undoubtedly an example. From the rugby school at the Beaumontois Lomagne rugby stadium where she started, to the French team where she has just celebrated her fiftieth cape with great fanfare with a success over the New Zealanders, in Pau, in November, her career by Audrey Forlani is a model of its kind, and commands admiration. In 2007 she took over the management of Saint-Orens, “because I could no longer play with the boys, and Beaumont had no junior teams », then joined the Jolimont hope center. of France. But count on Audrey to win the shield this season. Zeeland.
Tarn: Mélody Julien, La Tarnaise has been performing for two years
The Incredible Hope
Melody Julian.
We try not to open the cupboard of superlatives to the four winds when we talk about Mélody Julien. And yet… from the 800 meters that she ran in a wind of 4 or 5 meters per second on the Travet track 2 years ago and where, without competition, she achieved 2’07”66, in the 10 kilometers road that she finished in 32’29” in Ibiza last month, at the Seville half-marathon covered in 1h11’06” on January 29, we thought we had already seen all of her potential. Then, this Sunday, February 20, another thunderclap in the Andalusian city marathon: 2h31’39”, direct qualifying time for the European championships at the end of August in Munich. Eighth French female perf of all time over 10 km, tenth over half, thirteenth over marathon, while she has been a senior since January 1, and only 3 tricolor athletes have done better since 2010. Already holder of the France, we may have in Mélody Julien one of the greatest French athletes of all time in middle distance and long distance. Excuse a bit…
Lot: Danièle Ramos, the Gramatoise practices straight archery on the course at the highest level
A magnificent track record
Daniele Ramos.
Danièle Ramos has been practicing straight archery on the course for almost 30 years. After passing through several national clubs, she has been a member of the Archers du Causse de Gramat for 3 years. With 11 international podiums including 3 world champion titles (2003, 2005, 2019) and 21 French champion titles, she has one of the finest records in this discipline. With a bronze medal at the European Championship and two titles of French field shooting champion and French club team champion, 2021 has been a good year for her. Participation in the French nature shooting, field shooting and 3D shooting championships and in the world championship are her objectives for 2022. doubt was a significant element for the federation which asked us to organize the next French club championship in Gramat in September. rejoices Jean-Marc Chieze, president of the Causse Archers.
Gers: Valérie Gauvin, Forward of Everton FC (D1, England)
Mirande’s pride
Valerie Gauvin.
Valérie Gauvin can congratulate herself on having finished her first season with Everton in a fine 5th place in the FA Women’s Premier League, one of the most competitive championships in the world. With a total of 5 goals in 15 games, the 25-year-old striker has proven her ability to adapt in a foreign country. Nothing obvious for the one who left her Occitan cocoon in 2020, the cradle of her football career, with young people in Mirande then in Toulouse where she completed her training, before turning pro and joining Montpellier in 2014. her comfort zone, the scorer with 37 selections was not spared by the health crisis or injuries. However, she hung on to join the Blues last November against Kazakhstan, with a goal in the key. If her club is going through a zone of turbulence today (coach Jean-Luc Vasseur was recently fired), Valérie Gauvin intends to raise the bar and get back on the blue train, with Euro 2022 in her sights, which will take place… In England.
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