Cassandre Beaugrand

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.

Beaugrand’s boyfriend is fellow professional triathlete Sylvain Fridelance.