Aurélia Truel

Aurélia Truel is a French ultramarathon runner who specialises in trail running, born on 4 April 1975 in Ivry-sur-Seine. She started playing handball and running at the age of 10, first focusing on middle-distance running, and ran her first half-marathon in 1995 in Nogent-sur-Marne. Her first trail event was the 2008 Festival des Templiers, where she returned to win in 2012 after a third place in 2010. She was selected for the 2011 IAU Trail World Championships in Connemara, finishing fourth in the individual race, and came second individually at the 2013 championships in Llanrwst, Wales. She was part of the French teams that won the Trail World Championship team events in 2011, 2013 and 2016, and she won the Éco-Trail de Paris Ile-de-France in 2011.