Marine Thevenet worldclass under the radar

Marine Thevenet was an active IFSC competition climber for ten years starting from 2004, being 15-years old. Since 2007, she did 15 Lead World Cups and Championships and her worst result was #29. In 2014, she did her only full Boulder World Cup and she was #7 overall. In total, the lawyer working full time, has done 47 boulders in the 8th grade out of which 20 of them in the last 12 months, including her first 8B, Nuthin' but Sunshine in RMNP. (c) Clément Lechaptois "So I started when I was 10 mostly in the gym and I competed a lot. Honestly, I don’t know why climbing became my sport and my passion. Before that, as a child, I tried other sports. But since my first days of climbing until now, there was no place for other sports and hobbies. Maybe because of my climbing friends; the fact that we spent our summer holidays climbing together and that is possible only with outdoor sports. Last five years I was more focused on rock climbing. After the world championship in Bercy, I felt that I have no longer my place in the competition and that was less funny as it could have been before. So I decided to keep climbing outside. About training... I always liked to train! My years as a competitor learned me how to establish a training plan. I tried each year to focus on a weakness and to keep doing the things that I love (hold crimps in panels!) My motivation is to make progress; at least to try the lines that make me dream. It is easy for me to be motivated since most of the time I spot Clément on dreaming lines so I always discover amazing boulders! I have a very busy work; so during the week, I can only train in gyms. I climb outside during the weekends only. I try to take advantage of the lockdown to rest. In the first two weeks, I didn’t do anything. A little bit of yoga; but I just rested. Now, I do some smartboard training and I tried new stuff: Yoga and Stretching! The things that I always wanted to try but I was always too busy. The important thing for me is to respect the security measures and to stay at home. I am not worried at all about the fact to stop training/climbing during months; I will climb later.