Cassandre Beaugrand

Cassandre Beaugrand is one of the new breed of triathletes who have been in the sport from a very young age. Her journey began as a runner, with her mother competing at middle distance and her father, Ludovic Beaugrand, working as a coach at the Livry-Gargan Athletics Club in her hometown on the outskirts of Paris in France. She was also a keen swimmer as a child.

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It was the love of many sports and a desire not to choose just one to concentrate on that led her to triathlon. She developed rapidly under the guidance of her father as her coach. By 2013, aged just 15, she was scooping up Junior European Cup, and Championship wins and joined the French Mixed Relay team a year later to help them to silver in the World Championships.

After finishing as a runner-up in the Junior World Championships, she began to move towards regular elite-level competition. For the first time in her young career, Beaugrand struggled for results and performances for a time but showed her growing maturity in 2018 when she took her first WTS win in Hamburg. She has been a feature on the women’s elite scene ever since and is widely tipped to potentially dominate the sport in the future.

Her raw speed over swim and run, has made her a vital member of the successful French Mixed Relay team, with whom she has won a World Championship title. That punchy ability had also seen her compete strongly in Super League, including winning in Singapore in 2018 when she was part of one of the sport’s most famous finishes as she sprinted to cross the line fractions ahead of Katie Zaferes.

Cassandre was part of the France team who took a bronze medal in the Mixed Relay at the Tokyo Olympics.

She then had an inconsistent time at the Super League Triathlon 2021 Championship Series finishing eighth overall but with a podium position as she finished third in Jersey. She has started 2022 at a pace with wins at Arena Games Triathlon London and WTCS Leeds, but once again struggled with mixed results in the 2022 SLT Championship Series. She took the win at the series opener in London, and finished just off the podium in 4th place at her home race in Toulouse. However disappointing results in Munich and NEOM saw her finish in 8th place overall.

Beaugrand took part in the grand finale of the 2023 Arena Games Triathlon powered by Zwift in London, where she finished in 2nd place, after a close fought battle with Beth Potter.