EVENTS: Athletics: Women's 5000m and 10,000m
All set for her second Olympic appearance, Camille French (nee Buscomb) has won selection in the marathon for Paris 2024.
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EVENTS: Athletics: Women's 5000m and 10,000m
All set for her second Olympic appearance, Camille French (nee Buscomb) has won selection in the marathon for Paris 2024.
Hamilton-based Camille won a 2015 World University Games 5000m silver medal and competed in both the 5000m and 10,000m at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, placing 12th and 14th, respectively.
Camille, who is coached by Nic Bideau, competed on the track at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, finishing 19th in the 10,000m and exiting the heats of the 5000m.
More recently focusing on the marathon distance, in her debut appearance over the 42.2km distance in December 2023, she posted an Olympic entry standard mark of 2:26:08 in Valencia.
A mother to Sienna, who was born in June 2022, she is married to New Zealand 400m hurdler and Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games representative Cameron French.
