2023-08-19 17:05:00
Aligned with the 10,000 meters of the world athletics championships in Budapest, the bronze medalist at the last European championships is pursuing medical studies and high-level sport.
A medical intern on the track at the National Athletics Center in Budapest. The French Yann Schrub, 27, lines up this Sunday at 6.25 p.m. at the start of the 10,000 meters of the world championships organized in Hungary. The Moselle, who leads a career as a high-level athlete and studies medicine, was the pleasant surprise of the 2022 European Championships in Munich, where he won the bronze medal over the same distance, at the end of a very spectacular race. Nobody, not even him, had thought of seeing him on the podium which was rather promised to another Frenchman, Jimmy Gressier: “I was just thinking of doing the best possible race, he recalls, posed in a garden somewhere between Metz and Sarreguemines. At the start, I was in the peloton, then gradually I felt good and in the fight of the sprint, I played my cards. For the moment, we can say it well, it is the competition of my life. I hope there will be others, especially next year in Paris!”
Thoughtful, posed, the one who put his medical studies on hold to devote 90% of his time to athletics, announces the color for Budapest: “You have to be realistic, I am not aiming for the podium. Around the tenth, twelfth position it would already be good. If it starts quickly, it would not be honest to follow the lead of the race to explode a few laps later. If it’s a sprint and I have an opportunity, I’ll take it. The 10,000 meters is a very hard race psychologically, you have to be realistic and strategic and in no case go to suicide, ”analyzes the athlete.
“Intellectual escape”
On the starting line at the Worlds, the student of Dominique Kraemer and Anthony Notebaert at Athlé Sport Sarreguemines Arrondissements will find the cream of the crop made up of around ten athletes from West Africa, the United States United, but also some Europeans and Asians with personal bests much better than his (27 minutes and 47 seconds): “I am well aware of it and it does not scare me. You have to do with your current abilities, and not be impressed.
Yann Schrub is like a UFO among long-distance and middle-distance athletes: “It’s true that reconciling medical studies and training is very hard. Until last year, I was in the hospital a lot. As a result, I only trained once a day and again, sometimes at staggered times with the fatigue of the work on my shoulders. From now on, athletics takes more place: “After Munich, thanks to my partners, I was able to make the decision to devote myself almost full-time to athletics for the next two seasons. Participating in courses, training nine, ten times a week, having time to recover, to go to the physiotherapist… All of this has paid off and I hope to get even stronger.” The runner has still kept his vacations in the office and hopes to complete his thesis by the end of the year. “I need an intellectual escape from athletics,” he says. Then I will have one year of general medicine left and another if I want to take sports medicine: that’s what I want for the future.
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