Ambassadors
Eighteen young Metropole athletes will receive financial support from the Metropole for 2024. The aim? Prepare for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games.
Their names are Charles, Myriam, Pierre-Antoine, David, Audrey... and they train daily with the same goal: take part in the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. These young athletes were selected by the Metropole and its partners for their talent in basketball, water polo, athletics, rowing or cycling.
The Metropole awarded them a €4,000 grant to help them prepare. The idea? Help them reconcile their sporting plans with academic or career plans. This support will enable them to finance internships or purchase new equipment. In return, the athletes become ambassadors of the region by committing to wearing the colours of the Metropole during their competitions, here and elsewhere. These young champions-to-be will also take part in various events organised by the Metropole during the year (sports initiations and meetings with schoolchildren, charity races, etc.) to promote the benefits and values of sports among Metropole inhabitants. On the road to 2024!
The new Lille Metropole ambassadors:
- Violaine AERNOUDTS - Rowing - Club Léo Lagrange Armentières (CLLA)
- Pierre-Antoine BAELE - Paratriathlon - Villeneuve d'Ascq Triathlon
- Soheb BOUAFIA - Boxing - ABC Roubaisien
- Charles CANONNE - Water Polo - Enfants de Neptune Tourcoing Lille Métropole (ENTLM)
- Alycia CHRISTIAENS - Rugby – Stade Villeneuvois Lille Métropole (SVLM)
- Jean-Baptiste CLUSMAN – Swimming – Lille Métropole Natation (LMN)
- Simon CLUSMAN - Swimming - Lille Métropole Natation (LMN)
- Clémence COCCORDANO – Swimming – Lille Métropole Natation (LMN)
- Matéo COLSENET – BMX – Vélo Club de Roubaix Lille Métropole (VCR LM)
- Philippine DELEMAZURE – Hockey – Lille Métropole Hockey Club (LMHC)
- Tom DERACHE – Track cycling – Vélo Club de Roubaix Lille Métropole (VCR LM)
- Myriam DJEKOUNDADE - Basketball - Entente Sportive Basket Villeneuve d’Ascq-Lille Métropole (ESBVA LM)
- Mathilde DUFFRENE - Lawn Hockey - Iris Hockey Lambersart
- Audrey FEUTRIE – Rowing - Club Léo Lagrange Armentières (CLLA)
- Wilfried HAPPIO - Athletics - Lille Métropole Athlétisme (LMA)
- Caroline HERIAUD - Basketball - Entente Sportive Basket Villeneuve d’Ascq-Lille Métropole (ESBVA LM)
- Dimitri JOZWICKI – Paralympic athletics – Lille Métropole Athlétisme (LMA)
- David SOMBE - Athletics - Lille Métropole Athlétisme (LMA)
Did you know?
As part of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 52 handball and basketball matches will be played at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium Decathlon Arena. This stadium will therefore host the final phases of the women’s and men’s handball competitions, as well as the preliminary phases of the men’s and women’s basketball competitions (subject to validation). Here too it’s Paris 2024!
