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Lesueur's longing for third straight gold

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French long jumper Eloyse Lesueur was forced to miss the summer with injury. But that is in the past, now it is all about the future and a place in the record books of the European Athletics Championships.

Lesueur, 27, is back training and has her sights set on making it a hat-trick of gold medals in Amsterdam in July.

With the Olympic Games in Rio a month later, she is determined that 2016 will be a year to remember.

But first stop will be the European Athletics Championships, between July 6-10, when Lesueur is out to maintain her superb record in the event.

Only one other woman, East Germany’s Heike Drechsler, has won the European long jump title more than once. She achieved it four times in a row, between Stuttgart in 1986 and Budapest in 1998, so Lesueur already finds herself in an elite club as a double champion.

But now, and particularly after missing out at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing in August, Lesueur wants to become the second woman to land the long jump hat-trick after her successes in Helsinki in 2012 and Zurich in 2014.

When she secured the first of those triumphs, with a leap of 6.81m in Helsinki, she was actually the first Frenchwoman to make the podium in the long jump at a European Athletics Championships.

Two years later she went even further, retaining her title at the Letzigrund Stadium with 6.85m, having won world indoor gold five months earlier in Sopot with the exact distance - and amazingly, both achieved in the fourth round of the final.

There are 237 days go until the start of the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam - and Lesueur could be one of the stars of the show.

Here she is training for the upcoming season:

 



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