Véronique Chastel

About

Véronique Chastel is a French endurance athlete born on November 5, 1964, in Saint-Affrique in the Aveyron department of southern France, who built one of the more remarkable two-sport careers in French endurance athletics — first rising to become the 1997 French long-distance triathlon champion, then making a complete transition to trail and ultra-trail running in her late forties to achieve major results in a second discipline. A physical education teacher by profession, she won the French bronze at the 1994 short-distance triathlon championships before claiming the national long-distance triathlon title in 1997, then turned to trail and ultra-trail racing in the 2010s. Her first major trail victory came at the 6666 Occitane in 2011 — an extreme trail race in the Occitanie region of southern France requiring over fifteen hours of effort — and she has added further wins across the French trail circuit since then. Her trajectory across two elite endurance disciplines spanning nearly three decades represents an extraordinary model of athletic longevity and adaptability, and she is among the older female athletes to have achieved major victories in French trail running.

Notable Wins

• — French Long-Distance Triathlon Championship 1997
• — 6666 Occitane 2011
• — multiple trail and ultra-trail victories