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Swiss athlete (born 2001)
Léonie Pointet
Pointet in 2022
Personal information
NationalitySwiss
Born (2001-02-17) 17 February 2001 (age 23)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventSprint
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)200m : 22.96s (St Gallen, 2024)
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Switzerland
European U23 Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Espoo 4x100m relay

Léonie Pointet (born 17 February 2001) is a Swiss sprinter. She is a multiple-time national champion over 200 metres.

Career

In February 2022, she won her first Swiss indoor 200 metres title in Magglingen, running 23.74 seconds. She represented Switzerland at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich.

In July 2023, she won her first outdoors Swiss Championship title in Bellinzona, running 23.27 seconds. Later that month, she was a European Athletics U23 Championships bronze medallist in the 4x100m relay in Espoo in 2023. In August 2023, she set a personal best of 23.16 seconds competing in the 200 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, however she did not progress to the semi finals.

In February 2024, she won her second Swiss indoor 200 metres title in St Gallen, running 23.35 seconds.

She was selected for the Swiss team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas. As part of the 4x100m team she helped secure a place at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In May 2024, she set a new personal best running 22.96 seconds for the 200m in St Gallen.

She competed in the individual 200m and was a member of the Swiss 4x100m relay team that ran at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris over 200 metres.

Personal life

She is from Jongny in the canton of Vaud.

References

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