Claire Michel

Claire Michel is a Belgian professional triathlete, born in Brussels in 1988. Her mother, Colette Crabbé, swam for Belgium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and Michel grew up partly in Oregon, where she ran the steeplechase for the University of Oregon before a stress fracture kept her from the 2012 London Games. She switched to triathlon in 2012 and joined the Brussels Triathlon Club, became Belgian sprint champion, won silver at the 2013 ITU Aquathlon World Championships in London and was named Belgian Triathlon's female athlete of the year in 2014 and 2015. She represented Belgium at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio and belongs to the Belgian national team.