Elisa Hess has excellent memories of the 2022 French youth championships. Still a youngster at the time, she had achieved a hat-trick, winning gold in women’s singles, women’s doubles (with Jeanne Raffin / VGA Stella Saint-Maur) and mixed doubles (with Lenny Hubert/BC Pays de Fougères). “I played very well and was very happy to win everything,” recalls the 13-year-old. “I expected it, but I thought it would be more difficult. »
The badminton player trained at Riedisheim BC, licensed for several years now at ASLB Kembs where she trains under the direction of Massimo Levante, tackles the 2023 edition of the big national meeting – organized from this Thursday and until Sunday at the Alsace Regional Sports Center – with ambition, even if it has meanwhile changed category, moving to the minimum.
“There is a real difference in level between the minim 1re year and the minims 2e year,” said the young competitor. “I’m aiming for gold in women’s doubles (with Manon Heitzmann/ES2B) and in mixed doubles (with Lenny Hubert). In ladies’ singles, it’s going to be complicated. If I win my first match, I will face Emma Pognante, my former partner. I know her well and she knows me well too…”
Élisa Hess was not really stressed, this Thursday evening, when playing her first match. “I start with the mixed. It’s reassuring, because there are two of us on the pitch. I know that I can count on my partner to re-motivate me if I have a little drop in speed “, specifies this admirer of Carolina Marin, the Spanish Olympic champion, triple world champion and quadruple European champion, of whom she speaks. with stars in their eyes. “I too would like to participate in the Olympics. And why not win them”, smiles the one who for a year has won numerous victories at the international level, in Denmark, Serbia, Luxembourg or even in Belgium and Germany. “I dream of being selected for the 2028 Olympics.”
“I’m so happy to be here”
In the immediate future, this pupil of 5e , the youngest of three siblings, wants to take advantage of these French championships to add a few lines to her record before taking part, at the end of the year in a place yet to be defined, in the minimal European championships, the other goal for his season. “I’m so happy to be here. It’s cool. I can go home every night, sleep well, eat properly. It is important. I approach this competition like all the others, I give my all! With the hope of achieving my goals. »
Ambitious Alsatians
Five hundred competitors aged 11 to 19, divided into the U13, U15, U17 and U19 categories, have been on the track since Thursday to try to win one of the 32 titles awarded at the French youth singles championships. men’s and women’s, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles. Among them, 52 Alsatians (35 Haut-Rhinois and 17 Bas-Rhinois) representing eleven clubs: Red Star Mulhouse (11), ASPTT Strasbourg (8), ASLB Kembs (7), V3F (7), Cobra Colmar (5), Schwindratzheim (5), ES2B (3), Enabad (3), Wittelsheim (1), Wittenheim (1) and Soufflenheim (1).
If the Alsatians do not seem able to get on the podium, the Alsatians, they could well win several medals. Elisa Hess (ASLB Kembs) and Manon Heitzmann (ES2B) among the minors, Léana Laurent (ASLBK) and Margaux Lasis (Red Star Mulhouse) among the youngest, Malya Hoareau (ASPTT Strasbourg), Lilou Schaffner (RSM) and Camille Pognante (RSM ) among juniors can a priori demonstrate legitimate ambitions.
2023-05-17 22:09:58
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