The French team has selected six new athletes for the Budapest World Championships (August 19-27), to reach 77 athletes following invitations from World Athletics, the French Athletics Federation (FFA) announced on Monday.
After a first wave of selection announcements last week, World Athletics proposed to the various federations to complete the list of participants on the basis of “ranking” (world ranking by discipline).
Heptathletes Léonie Cambours, Esther Conde-Thurpin and Auriana Lazraq-Khlass, walker Pauline Stey (20 km walk), pole vaulter Ninon Chapelle and shot putter Fred Moudani-Likibi join the French team led by decathlete Kevin Mayer.
Sprinter Mouhamadou Fall, already scheduled for the 4x100m relay, now also has a place in the 100m individual. The French straight-line champion was released three weeks ago after risking a suspension for failing to fulfill his anti-doping whereabouts obligations.
The Blues are thus 78 (56 for individual events) for the major annual athletics competition, one year before the Paris Olympics.
