Xavier Thévenard is a French trail and mountain runner who was born on 6 March 1988 in Nantua, France, and grew up in the ski resort village of Les Plans d'Hotonnes in the Jura. A former cross-country skier and biathlete, he began running in the summer months as physical training and entered his first ultra running competitions in 2010. He won the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, the best known mountain ultramarathon in Europe, in 2013, 2015 and 2018, and he is the only athlete to have completed the UTMB Grand Slam, with wins in the CCC in 2010, the TDS in 2014 and the OCC in 2016 as well as the main race. He also won the Mont-Blanc 80 km in 2017 and the Ultra-Trail Mt. Fuji and the Mont-Blanc 90 km in 2019.
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Xavier Thévenard is a French elite athlete who specialises in trail and mountain running
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before entering his first ultra running competitions in 2010
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