[Article disponible dans Le Quotidien du vendredi 6 mai 2022] Léa Fontaine is currently recharging her batteries on her island, while refining her physical preparation. The Réunionnaise is now ranked 6th in the world in her category of over 78 kg.
She is certainly only passing through for a short week, but this little time is important. “I’m leaving on Saturday because there are the French team championships at the end of the month. But even a week I like to come back, she says. I clear my head and I know that it gives me good for 3 or 4 months. » The physical preparation program is not forgotten, but the basic work is done in the canes or the forests on the heights of Piton Saint-Leu. “I like to run in the forest, you can see something else and I take advantage of the change of air while working”.
During her last outing at the grand slam of Antalya in Turkey at the beginning of April, she imposed herself in her category of + 78 kg, beating the Israeli Raz Hershko, a victory which allows her to rise to 2 May 2022, 6th in the world in her category just behind another Frenchwoman, Julia Tolofua. His victim in the final in Turkey occupies 3rd place in a ranking dominated by another Frenchwoman Romane Dicko. This is what makes it difficult for the Reunionese in the France team.
