At its heart is one of Carrefour’s key strategies: to bring about a food transition for all. The Group has a unique ability to bring all French people together around this gigantic celebration of sport through its 5000 stores and e-commerce sites. In addition, the Group is wholeheartedly committed to the values of Paris 2024, and is fully on board with the goal of organising Olympic and Paralympic Games which are sensible, sustainable and inclusive.
A project to supply fresh produce and organic food (fruit, vegetables, cereal products, meat, fish and seafood) to the Olympic and Paralympic Villages for the athletes’ meals, offering exposure for top-quality French produce, whilst also promoting more sustainable eating.
A branding project which, through the values of sport, promotes health through diet, the value of work, social betterment and inclusion.
A business project involving all our partners and franchisees, raising awareness of disability, nutrition, health at work through sport, etc.
A commercial project, involving numerous promotions. Carrefour will develop exclusive collections in a wide range of official products licensed by Paris 2024 (clothing, stationery, back-to-school collections, etc.).
Gilles Anthony Afoumba
Athletics
Gilles Anthony Afoumba, 27, has been running the 400m since he was 17. He discovered the discipline by chance, when he was playing football in his neighbourhood of Talagaï in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) and his friends pointed out to him that he was a very fast runner.
He joined the Etoile du Congo athletics club and within a few months was ranked among the best sprint hopefuls in Congo. In 2015, he won the bronze medal at the African Junior Championships. That same year, he decided to move to France to continue his progress and joined Athlétique Club de Paris Joinville. In 2017, he won the bronze medal at the French Outdoor Championships. In 2018, he joined Stade Français and won silver at the French Outdoor Championships. In 2019, Gilles became French Champion. That same year, he broke the Congo record by covering 400 metres in 45.64 seconds and qualified for the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, where he took part with the Republic of Congo delegation. He finished 6th in his heat.
Gilles is currently in the process of qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, where he hopes to reach the semi-finals. Gilles currently runs the 400m in 45′'64 and is ranked 49th in the world.
Why Carrefour?
Gilles knows Carrefour well, having worked there since 2022 as a sports department manager, alongside his sporting career. He loves the atmosphere, where his colleagues are his biggest supporters. He is delighted to be joining the Carrefour Athletes Team, working alongside prestigious athletes. The symbolism is all the stronger for him, as he is supported by his own employer.
Achievements
2015: Bronze medallist at the African Junior Championships
2017: Bronze medallist at the French Outdoor Championships
2018: Silver medallist at the French Outdoor Championships
2019: French outdoor champion
2022: Silver medallist at the French Indoor Championships
Saifedine Alekma
Wrestling
Originally from Moselle, Saifedine Alekma is a member of the national wrestling team and trains at the national institute of sport, expertise and performance. Alongside his sport, this 28-year-old wrestler has also entered into a contract with the French army, giving him “military staff on secondment” status. He discovered wrestling at the age of seven when he accidentally entered a gymnasium during a training session: the trainer asked if he wanted to attend a free session, and since then he has been hooked. Although people mainly see wrestling as a combat sport, Saifedine appreciates the respect that athletes have for one another, as well as the rules that govern the discipline. He began training at a club in his town of birth – Freyming-Merlebach – and then in 2011 joined the prestigious Sarreguemines club before being spotted by the Clermont Ferrand France division. He remained there for three years. That was when the pace of his training picked up speed: Saifedine scaled up his running and did numerous gym sessions, and ended up being selected to be part of the France junior team.
In 2016, he competed in his first European Championships (in the U23 category). The same year, just after the 2016 Rio Olympics, he received a letter from the national institute of sport, expertise and performance asking him if he wanted to join the new cohort of athletes, and became European vice champion in 2021.
Why Carrefour?
Saifedine sees Carrefour as an internationally renowned company that will help showcase his discipline and raise its profile – a discipline that is currently relatively unknown. He also has sentimental ties with the retailer: his father worked in a Carrefour store, and he himself did a traineeship as part of his professional business baccalaureate at the Freyming-Merlebach Carrefour. Saifedine feels as though he has always known the Group – he is grateful to Carrefour for having included him in its team, enabling him to rub shoulders with other athletes. Once the 2024 Paris Olympics are over, Saifedine wants to retrain and embark on a career in retail – like his father – and perhaps even work in a store serving customers.
Achievements:
2013 to 2017: French vice champion
2021: European vice champion in Warsaw (under 79 kg)
2022: French champion
Arnaud Assoumani
Para-athletics: long jump and triple jump
A 37-year-old para-athlete who specialises in the long jump and the triple jump, Arnaud Assoumani had dreamt of being an athlete ever since he saw a long jump championship competition on TV when he was just five. Seven years later, he started training and competing, eventually qualifying for his first French championships – a year before he turned 18. In 2003, he won two gold medals and a silver in the various categories at the European championships. Then the following year, he won a bronze medal in the long jump at the Paralympic Games in Athens (2004). Following some major back problems lasting four years, he came back, stronger than ever, at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, setting a new long jump world record of 7.23 m and picking up a gold medal along the way. The took part in the following three editions of the Paralympic Games (London 2012, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2021) and has set his sights on another medal at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Apart from his sports career, Arnaud also works in audiovisual and is involved in the Linkee association which tackles student poverty.
Why Carrefour?
For 20 or so years, Arnaud Assoumani has been involved in protecting the environment, as well as promoting diversity, equality and inclusion, particularly through sport. Carrefour, which has made disability a key component of its strategic plan for the next three years, was an obvious choice for him.
Achievements:
2004: Bronze medal at the Athens Paralympic Games
2006: World champion in Assen
2008: Champion in the Beijing Paralympic Games
2011: World champion in Christchurch
2012: Vice Paralympic champion at the London Paralympic Games
2016: Bronze medal at the Rio Paralympic Games
2017: Vice world champion in London
Sara Balzer
Sword
Sara Balzer, 28, is a fencer from Strasbourg, and her speciality is the sabre. She began fencing because she wanted to imitate her sister who used to fence in an open-air centre. Quickly realising that she enjoyed it, she decided to stop everything else she was doing so she could focus fully on it. In 2013, she joined the national institute of sport, expertise and performance, which meant that she could train while at the same time studying for a psychology degree – followed by a digital communication degree – remotely. She then won three gold medals at the French championships, and then at the 2019 FISU World University Games. In 2021, she competed in the team event at the Tokyo Olympic Games and won a silver medal. But it wasn't until 2022 that she really shored up her reputation as a force to be reckoned with in this discipline: she won two gold medals in the World Cup and a gold medal in the European Championships, as well as a world vice champion title.
Why Carrefour?
Currently world number one in team fencing, this young woman has decided to work with a company which shares the same values as her: health, development, animal welfare and food security, as well as dietary balance.
Achievements:
2017: Double vice champion in the world fencing cup (individual and team events)
2021: Vice champion at the Tokyo Olympic Games
2022: Vice champion in the world fencing cup (team event)
2022: Bronze medal in the European championships (individual event)
2022: European sabre champion (team event) and World Cup champion
SARAH BEE
Breakdance
Sarah Bouyahyaoui, a.k.a. Sarah Bee, was born in Chenôve, near Dijon. She has been dancing for 23 years and winning battles is her speciality. In just a few years, Sarah Bee has become an iconic figure on the women's breakdancing scene. It all began when she was 11. Back then, hip-hop was very popular. Sarah, meanwhile, was already playing basketball and engaging in various other sports, as well as dancing. She was asked if she wanted to test a few shapes, and that's how she first got involved in breakdance. She was crowned World Champion when she was 18. Then her artistic career took off, and she even got the opportunity to go and work for Madonna and a number of other French artists.
In 2022, she joined the unit of the national institute of sport, expertise and performance that had been specially created to get people ready for the Paris Games. She really hopes to make this new discipline shine at the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games!
Why Carrefour?
Joining the Carrefour team is also a nod to her younger days when she would dance in the car park of the Toison d’Or Shopping Centre in Dijon… and then go and train in the evening on the marble floor, far from the madding crowd, with her partner alongside whom she competed in a number of leading competitions. Carrefour’s support will enable her to focus fully on training and competing.
Achievements:
2008: Battle of the Year world champion
2019: European champion & Redbull BC One Redbull champion
2022: French champion
Perle Bouge
Para-rowing
Perle Bouge is a former wheelchair basketball player and a para-rower. She and her partner are aiming to qualify for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in para-rowing (mixed doubles event).
Originally from Brittany (but Basque in her heart of hearts), she has enjoyed sport since the age of six and has tried a number of different ones, including karate, artistic ice-skating, cycling and running. In her childhood, sport helped to flourish – she saw it as a way to meet new people and benefit from their diversity. But she did not consider a professional career in sport – instead, she saw herself as a sports teacher in the army or a policewoman. After a motorcycle accident, she started playing wheelchair basketball, and then she chanced upon para-rowing. In 2007, she was approached by the Bayonne rowing club which was interested in Paralympic rowing.
In 2009, she was contacted by the France collective and began her career in para-rowing in 2010 alongside her teammate Stéphane Tardieu, with whom she is still rowing today.
Why Carrefour?
Perle Bouge is extremely pleased to be part of Team Carrefour. She sees it as a partnership underpinned by human values, since the team is made up of athletes from different places, different ages and with different backgrounds: this diversity reflects all the opportunities that sport offers and the possibility to grow from being around other people. What's more, the partnership is an opportunity to raise other people's awareness of disability issues, thanks to the diversity of the Group's employees and their sheer numbers.
Achievements:
2010, 2011, 2013 & 2014: World vice champion (mixed doubles)
2012: Vice champion in the London Olympic Games (mixed doubles)
2016: Bronze medal in the Rio Olympic Games (mixed doubles)
2018: World champion (single sculling)
2022: European vice champion (mixed doubles)
Anaïs Brèche
Trampoline
Anaïs Brèche started gymnastics when she was five years old. But following an injury to her arm, she quickly had to give up. Seven years later, she discovered trampolining and took a liking to it – even though there was never any indication that she was destined to do it. Shortly afterwards, she joined the young hopefuls division and competed in the French trampolining championships for the first time in 2015.
The following year, she was selected for the national junior team and competed in her first European championships. In 2017, she was French senior champion and won a silver medal in the European championships (team event). In 2019, she took part in the world championships, and two years later won a bronze medal in the European championships (team event).
Why Carrefour?
Anaïs chose to join the retailer not just because of the support that it offers, but also because at the same time as her professional career, she would like to spend some time working in the retail sector. She has a certain familiar affection for Carrefour: during each heat (held in Antibes), her coach would take the whole team to the local Carrefour hypermarket – one of the largest in France – and he would promise to buy her the equivalent of her weight in chocolate if she won a medal.
Achievements:
2017: French senior champion
2018: Silver medal in the women's European Championships (team event)
2021: Bronze medal in the women's European Championships (team event)
2022: Third place in the World Cup (synchronised event) in Arosa (Switzerland)
Guillaume Burger
kayaking
Guillaume Burger was only 12 years old when he discovered kayaking while on a school trip in the Ardèche region. He immediately fell in love with this high-octane sport that can be enjoyed individually or as a group. He kept up with it during the holidays and then joined a club when he went back to school. Back then, he would take part in local and regional challenges. But he quickly set his sights on a higher level of competition… and won his first gold medal in the European in-line two-seater racing championships in 2007. Two years later, he won his first international medal at the world four-seater kayaking championships.
At only 19 years old, Guillaume has joined the France team A (first team) and is racking up the victories. He took part in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, and then won a bronze medal in the 2022 European in-line canoeing-kayaking championships. Now, his dream is to compete in the 2024 Paris Games.
Why Carrefour?
Guillaume is very proud to have Carrefour's support for the Paris Games. He describes the retailer as epitomising French achievement on the world stage. After a day spent with the operational marketing teams back in November, he is now planning to retrain after the Games – he wants to work at Carrefour in one of the e-commerce or marketing departments.
Achievements:
2007: European champion in-line two-seater canoeing-kayaking (500 m)
2009: Vice champion in the world four-seater kayaking championships (1000 m)
2019: Vice champion in the four-seater mixed kayaking World Cup (500 m)
2019: Champion in the two-seater men's kayaking World Cup (1000 m)
2020: Champion in the four-seater mixed kayaking World Cup (500 m)
2021: Represented France in the Tokyo Olympic Games
2022: Bronze medal in the European in-line canoeing-kayaking championships
Laura Flessel
Fencing
Laura Flessel discovered fencing when watching a retrospective of sabre matches on TV. A cloak and dagger film enthusiast, she started fencing at the age of six in Petit-Bourg. Over the first 12 years that she spent doing it, she won every possible title in the West Indies and the Caribbean. When she was 18, she joined the national institute of sport, expertise and performance and became a member of the France Racing Club, the club with which she won her first world cups. This enabled her to qualify for the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996. In Georgia, she became the first fencer to win the individual Olympic title, followed three days later by the team event Olympic title. Laura dominated her support for 16 years. With her five Olympic medals, she became the most medalled French sportswoman in the Olympic Games.
Laura also secured six world champion titles and a European champion title, and was French champion 18 times. Her teammates voted her standard bearer for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, after which she ended her sports career and dedicated her time to numerous humanitarian, charity and citizen initiatives. In 2017, she was appointed Minister for Sport under Edouard Philippe. Laura currently runs Sport Excellence Reconversion, an institute which trains high-level sports men and women.
Why Carrefour?
Having presented the Olympic law to France's National Assembly and its Senate, she has chosen to be represented by Carrefour as she considers it a brand imbued with a family and sports identity. She shares the same desire to communicate the excellence and the meaning of proximity that she experienced in her fencing competitions.
Achievements:
1996: Olympic Games champion in Atlanta (individual and team events)
1998 & 1999: World fencing champion (individual event)
1998, 2005, 2007 & 2008: World fencing champion (team event)
2002, 2003 & 2004: Three-times winner of the women's fencing World Cup circuit
2007: European champion (individual event)
Alexis Hanquinquant
Paratriathlon
Up until the age of 25, Alexis Hanquinquant played basketball and boxed at a high level. He had even won a France championship full contact title in 2010. The same year, a work accident resulted in his right leg being paralysed. It was then amputated just below the knee a few years later in 2013. He then decided to try out paratriathlon, which really was a breath of fresh air for him. Once he had had his first carbon blade fitted, buoyed by the discovery of this new discipline, he decided to take up a challenge: participate on his own in the French paratriathlon championships. This earned him not just a silver medal, but also an invitation from the national team trainer to join a professional club. This competition heralded the start of a series of victories: he went on to win four European championship titles, five world championship titles and a gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Paralympics. He is now determined and ready to embrace a new challenge at the 2024 Paralympics… and to try to win a new gold medal alongside Carrefour.
Why Carrefour?
Alexis Hanquinquant sees Carrefour as hugely supportive of people with disabilities – thanks to the help it gives them in preparing for races. This gives him a sense of belonging to the company.
Achievements:
2017: European champion and world champion
2018: European champion and world champion
2019: World champion
2021: Champion in the Tokyo Paralympic Games
Timothé Ivaldi
Adapted para table tennis
Timothé is a young table tennis player who has set his sights on being selected for the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. When he was four years old, Timothé started showing signs of a neurodevelopment disorder, as well as other cognitive disorders. He was monitored and underwent various tests before eventually being recognised as intellectually deficient. His neurodevelopment disorders include autism (autistic spectrum disorder). This has not prevented Timothé from following practically mainstream schooling (adapted to his needs) – he was awarded a vocational training certificate in catering production and service after three years in education – an enormous achievement given his educational difficulties.
He discovered table tennis while on holiday with his family. Shortly afterwards, he decided to join a club so he could learn more about the sport, since it helped him to flourish. A few years later, he joined the Poitiers centre for adapted sport. Timothé then started competing and his career took on a more international dimension: in 2018 he became European champion in the team event and won a bronze medal at the Global Games in Australia the following year (also in the team event).
But the medal of which he is the proudest is the one he won with his partner Antoine Zhao: together they came third in the world ITTF PTT (International Table Tennis Federation Para Table Tennis) championships in Grenada (Spain) in November 2022!
Why Carrefour?
Carrefour is a brand with which he is very familiar. It has been part of his everyday life since his early childhood – his father worked in the clothing section of a Carrefour store. He is also very proud to be supported by the retailer, since it enables him to talk about his disability – a disability that is not always visible – and raise other people's awareness of it. And he has very fond memories of the time he went head-to-head against Alexandre Bompard for a table tennis match.
Achievements:
2018: European Team Champion
2019: Bronze medal in the Global Games (team event)
2022: Bronze medal in the men's doubles at the ITTF PTT (International Table Tennis Federation Para Table Tennis) World Championships
Félix Lebrun
Table tennis
Félix is the youngest of the Lebrun brothers, and today he's making table tennis shine in France, with the French colors shining brightly at major world events.
At just 16, confirming his reputation as a prodigy, Félix became France's number 1 table tennis player and continued his spectacular ascent by climbing to 6th place in the world rankings at the beginning of 2024. A dazzling career that today places him among the greatest French players in the discipline, and the 3rd youngest ever to enter the world's top 10.
With a racket in his hand since the age of 3, Félix developed a passion for table tennis under the watchful eye of an enthusiastic family and a father who was a coach, the first witness to his promising skills. The young table tennis player quickly progressed and won numerous youth competitions, before entering the senior circuit in 2021, at the age of 15. In the big leagues, he continues to evolve, demonstrating his talent week after week.
Félix wins a singles title at the European Games and 2 WTT tournaments: Antalya and Goa. At the beginning of 2024, he is the 6th best player in the world, just behind 5 Chinese, who remain the masters of the discipline. Like his brother, Félix remains very attached to his Montpellier roots and to his club Alliance Nîmes-Montpellier, giving of his time to share his passion and, more broadly, the values of sport.
Why Carrefour ?
For Félix, Carrefour evokes his childhood and links him to moments of family sharing. It's an emotional bond rooted in daily family life, from taking a photo with Santa Claus to preparing for the start of the new school year. Joining Team Carrefour is a source of great pride for him, and translates into support and guidance from one of the world's leading retailers.
Achievements:
2022: French doubles champion
2022 and 2023: Double bronze medallist at European Championships, doubles and team event
2023: WTT Antalya winner
2023: Gold medal at European Games
2024: Winner WTT Star Goa
2024: Bronze medallist in doubles at the WTT Finals in Doha
2024: Silver medallist at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
Alexis Lebrun
Table tennis
Like his younger brother, Alexis embraced the passion of table tennis from an early age, in a table tennis family that lives the sport every day. With his uncle, a former world No. 14, and his father, a former French No. 7 who became a manager at Montpellier, Alexis had the sport firmly in his blood, and started playing in the gym at the age of 4.
His early involvement led to rapid progress, and he went on to win the Euro Mini Champ's twice at the age of 11 and 12. A series of injuries put his promising career on hold before a comeback that saw him become double French junior champion. As a senior, Alexis confirmed his talent.
At the age of 20, he reached 14th place in the world rankings and won a bronze medal at the European Games in singles and team. He also won a bronze medal at the European Championships in doubles and team play, and is a two-time French champion. Alongside his brother Félix, the duo put in a string of performances, playing doubles and winning. It's a dream come true for the French and puts table tennis back at the forefront of world sport.
Why Carrefour ?
His link with Carrefour, as with table tennis, was forged during his youth. It's a story nourished by memories of family races. Alexis wanted Carrefour to help him live out his Olympic dreams, with the support of a partner sporting the colors of France, a major criterion in his choice of Paris 2024.
Achievements :
2021 and 2022: Double French champion in doubles and mixed doubles
2022 and 2023: Double bronze medallist at the European Team and Doubles Championships
2022 and 2023: Double French champion
2023: Double bronze medallist at the European Games in singles and team play
2023: Silver medallist at the WTT Champions in Macau
2024: Bronze medallist at the WTT 2024 Star in Goa in mixed doubles
2024: Silver medallist at the World Team Table Tennis Championships
Auriane Mallo
Fencing
Auriane Mallo is 29 years old and has been fencing since her childhood. Her two brothers also fence – they were the ones who introduced her to it. Having spent several years training in the club of her town of birth (Lyon), she joined the INSEP (national institute of sport, expertise and performance) in 2012 and was selected for the national team the following year. Ranked third in the 2016 French championships, she was selected to represent France at the Rio Olympics in the same year, where she made it through to the quarter-finals. At the same time, she continued studying physiotherapy. She graduated in 2018 and started practising as a physiotherapist at a rehabilitation centre in Valenton. In 2021, she had a son and started to juggle her new role as mother and her job as a physio, while continuing to fence at a very high level. Thanks to Carrefour's support, she has been able to put her job as a physiotherapist to one side, focus fully on her career as a professional athlete, and do everything she can to get ready for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Auriane is currently ranked fifth in the world.
Why Carrefour?
Auriane chose Carrefour's support because it is a recognised retailer that evokes memories for everybody in France. Even when competing on the other side of the world, she has often chanced upon a Carrefour store, and it has reminded her of her country, providing her with reassurance and a sense of familiarity.
Achievements :
2013: Junior world champion and junior European champion, women's fencing (individual event)
2016: Bronze medal in the French championships, women's fencing (individual event)
2016: Represented France in the Rio Olympic Games
2017, 2018 & 2022: European Team Champion (team event)
2019 & 2022: Double French champion (in titles)
Estelle Mossely
Boxing
Boxing champion Estelle Mossely discovered the sport at the age of 12. The only girl in her club, she persevered with her parents’ support and competed in several French championship events during her teenage years… which instilled in her a taste for victory and competition. Her desire to keep boxing was rewarded in 2012 when the discipline was included for the first time in the London Olympic Games. As an adult, she decided to keep up her training with the French team, while at the same time studying to be an engineer. In 2016, she was crowned amateur world champion. The same year, she won the under-60 kg category at the Rio Olympics, and then interrupted her sports career to give birth to her first child. When she returned to the ring a year later, she transitioned over to the professional category. A year after she had started boxing professionally, she got her first IBO (International Boxing Organisation) belt.
After her second child in 2020, she set herself a new goal: a second appearance at the Olympics. She has now qualified for Paris 2024, and is looking forward to experiencing the same thrills that she got to enjoy in her first final eight years ago. Estelle Mossely is highly committed to promoting women's sport and alongside her boxing is involved in a number of other projects to pass on her experience to younger people.
Why Carrefour?
As a mother with two children, Estelle Mossely has decided to opt for Carrefour's support because it is a meaningful brand which resonates with her own experience. Carrefour combining education with nutrition, eating well and sport.
Achievements:
2015: Vice champion in the European games
2016: World champion
2016: Champion in the Rio Olympic Games
2019: IBO (International Boxing Organisation) belt
Marie José Perec
Athletics (200 metres & 400 metres)
Born in Guadeloupe in 1968, Marie-José Pérec is a multi-medallist sprinter. She specialises in the 200 metres and the 400 metres. She discovered athletics in her youth during her physical education classes at school when she had to run 60 metres. She ran the distance so quickly that her teacher thought that her stopwatch was broken. So she suggested that Marie-José take part in a race. She won it, and thus was born her taste for surpassing herself. After that first conclusive experience, she started training more assiduously. By the age of 16, she had reached the minimum requirements for 200 metres, and then qualified for the French Championships.
She then joined the national institute of sport, expertise and performance and left her native Guadalupe for mainland France. Despite a difficult first year in Paris (because she was so far from her family), she managed to qualify for the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, where she got through to the quarter finals. She tried her hand at a number of distances and events, before she found the ones that were right for her (400 m hurdles, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, etc.).
In 1991, she started to rack up the victories: the Tokyo World Championships (she was the first Frenchwoman to win a medal), followed by the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In 1996, she secured two gold medals in the 400 m and 200 m at the Atlanta Olympic Games. After a decade of sporting achievement, she ended her international career in 2000 in order to focus more on various sports-related activities.
Why Carrefour?
At a time when malnutrition and obesity are on the increase, Marie-José Perec has decided to be supported by Carrefour because of her commitments to do with a good diet: she believes that enjoying a balanced diet is a ticket to taking care of your health, and the retailer plays an important role in this regard, since it is committed to enabling everybody to enjoy high quality products.
Achievements:
1988: France record over 400 metres
1989: European indoor athletics champion over 200 metres
1992: Barcelona Olympic Games champion over 400 metres
1994: Double European champion in the 400 m relays and the 400 metres
1995: World athletics champion over 400 metres
1996: Double champion at the Atlanta Olympic Games over 200 metres and 400 metres
Teddy Riner
Judo
Triple Olympic gold-medal winner, Teddy Riner is the most decorated judoka in the world. He started practising judo at his first club – the Paris Judo / JC Bolivar – where he met his first coach – Alain Pierrot. He quickly distinguished himself by winning titles in all youth categories, and joined the young hopefuls division in Rouen when he was 13.
At 15, he joined the national institute of sport, expertise and performance, and despite his young age went up against athletes 6 to 10 years older than him. He still trains there today. When he was 17, he started competing on the senior circuit – and that was when he started winning titles. Holder of eight individual world championship titles, he is constantly looking for new challenges. This has enabled him to go up against opponents equal to him.
Now 34 and a father of two, Teddy Riner still thirsts for victory and wants to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Why Carrefour?
For him, the Carrefour Group was the obvious choice. He identifies with its values – a better diet, affordable prices, proximity and support for organic. He considers himself enormously lucky to have a global French brand interested in him.
Achievements:
2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 & 2017: World champion
2007, 2011, 2014 & 2016: European champion
2008-2013, 2019, 2022 & 2023: Grand Slam Champion
2008 2011, 2014 & 2015 French champion
2010, 2011 & 2022: French champion (team event)
2011: World champion (team event)
2012 & 2016: Olympic champion in London and Rio
2021: Champion at the Tokyo Olympics (team event)