Floriane Hot

Floriane Hot, born April 27, 1991, in Toulouse, is a French long-distance and ultra-distance runner and the 2022 and 2024 100 kilometer world champion. She grew up playing football in Toulouse, trained as an air traffic controller and moved to Aix-en-Provence to work at its aerodrome, where she gave up football for running and won the Salon-de-Provence half marathon in 2019. In 2022 she took up a challenge from her partner Nicolas Navarro to run a 100 kilometer race, trained in Kenya, and won the French championships in Belves in 7:42:24, almost forty minutes ahead of the runner-up. On August 27, 2022, at the 100 kilometer world championships in Bernau bei Berlin she won in 7 hours 4 minutes 3 seconds and set a new European women's record for the distance.