Charlotte Morel
Since then, and up to now, Pierre Houseaux has been Morel's trainer and she still lives in Boulouris (Aigue Bonne) even though she joined the triathlon club of Beauvais in 2006 and, like the well-known triathletes Sylvain Sudrie, Laurent Vidal, Emmie Charayron and Delphine Pelletier, she enrolled at the Military School Ecole d’application d’infanterie (= EAI), then in Montpellier, in December 2007 (grade: soldat 1re classe; 2012: caporal).
In 2008 Moreland her EAI team won the gold medal at the Military World Championships in Estonia, in the individual ranking Morel placed 5th.
In summer 2008 she obtained the DEUG STAPS (Diplôme d’études universitaires générales) and in summer 2009 the Licence L3 in éducation et motricité, a kind of bachelor's degree, to go on with her Master's studies in nutrition (Prévention et Education pour la Santé par l'Activité Physique, option Prévention par l'alimentation et la nutrition), which she concluded in June 2011.
Tall as she is (1.72m), Morel has been featured several times as a maillots de bain model, e.g. on the frontpage and in a special section of the leading French magazine Triathlète.
[2] The French media often depicted Morel and Emmie Charayron, the Junior World Champion of 2009, as the most promising prospects for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The leading French magazine, Triathlète, for instance, dedicated its famous two-page column called "Confrontation" to the two young triathletes.
Her younger brother Jérémy "Jey" Morel is the National French Cyclo-cross Junior Champion of the year 2009 and also takes part in triathlons.
At the Duathlon World Championship in Rimini she achieved a top-ten position as well and in Switzerland she won the gold medal at the Sprint Triathlon of Walliswil.
After her traditional summer training camp in Alpe d'Huez Charlotte Morel won the sprint triathlon in Vaujany (29 July 2007).
With her French team EAI she also won the gold medal at the Military World Championships in Estonia, placing 4th in the individual ranking.
The two most outstanding international results of 2009 are Morel's 8th place at the U23 World Championships (Grand Final of the Dextro Energy Championship Series in Southport / Gold Coast) and her 6th place (Elite) at the Premium European Cup in Alanya, where Morel took the lead in the bicycle race and, when leaving the transition area, was still some 40 seconds ahead of Helle Frederiksen.
The winning male team of the Lyonnaise championship series, i.e. Sartrouville, also won the gold medal only with the help of foreign elite stars like the Brownlee brothers.
For the Grand Final in La Baule (i.e. Triathlon Audencia) on 18 September 2010, however, her club had nominated her only among the triatlètes invitées U23, obviously because of her persistent knee injury, and she could not finish the race.
The two most successful events were the At the U23 World Championships in Budapest, her main target of this year, Morel had a bike accident in drenching rain.
At the opening triathlon in Gladbeck (15 May 2011) she placed first in the individual ranking and won the team gold medal together with Scarlet and Mignon Vatlach and Eszter Pap.
After a disc injury at the end of 2011 and two three weeks training camps in Kenya (December 2011) and Lanzarote (January 2012), Morel took part in two ITU events: in both Larache and in Geneva she placed fourth.
At the Grand Final of the German Bundesliga club championship in Schliersee (8 September 2012), Morel placed first and helped her team EJOT Buschhütten win the circuit.
As usual, Morel ended the season with the Indian Ocean Triathlon in Mauritius (23 November 2013), winning the gold medal together with her fiancé Frédéric Belaubre.
