Stéphanie Gicquel

[1][2] She is also an explorer and since 2015 has held the record for the longest cross-country skiing expedition carried out by a woman in Antarctica without using sled dogs nor kites.

In 2022, a year after a serious accident having immobilized her for several months, she regained the title of champion of France during the 24-hour running race in Brive (240.028 km) by then improving the record of this event having notably hosted the world championships.

[23][24][25] She also improved the women's record for the Millau 100 km in 2023 during the 51st edition of this race which she won in 8 hours and 21 minutes despite the intense heat.

[26][27][28][29] In 2024, she becomes the first athlete to win the Grand Raid du Morbihan three times and improved again the women's record for this 175 km ultra-trail in 16 hours and 33 minutes, running more than 10.5 km/h on average.

This prize was presented to her by André Giraud, president of the French Athletics Federation, in the presence of Stéphane Traineau, president of the INSEP Alumni club, and Anne Barrois-Chombart, deputy general director of INSEP, during an evening gala at the French National Olympic and Sports Committee, Wednesday November 9, 2022.

She contributes to numerous books, including Mindset of Champions[40] (2024) by Thierry Picq and Mickaël Romezy, Engagées (2021) by Charlotte Daubet, To succeed, strengthen your state of mind (2021) by Isabelle Proust alongside Thierry Marx and Mercedes Erra, Knowing to act - Towards another acceleration (2021) by Alexandra Corsi-Chopin, Little, I was already dreaming of it (2020) by Claire Le Meur, Les Pionnières (2020).

[41] She regularly speaks in schools, businesses and in the media on climate change, audacity, the ability to adapt and surpassing oneself, individual and collective performance: “The only limit to our goals is the one we set ».