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Pauline Déroulède

French wheelchair tennis champion

National champion in 2021, 2022 and 2023, Pauline is a spirited athlete.

“I’m very determined. I like fighting, and when I decide to go for it, I give it my all.”

Following an accident in 2018 when she lost her left leg, Pauline, who had been playing tennis since childhood, was driven to become a professional wheelchair tennis player.

I set myself the challenge of an individual sport. But without a team around you, you can't do it. And for me, to have the kind of support provided by Arkema around me is invaluable.”

In the shoes of Pauline Déroulède

2023

  • French Champion Wheelchair Tennis

2022

  • French Champion Wheelchair Tennis

2021

  • French Champion Wheelchair Tennis

Alexis Hanquinquant

Triathlon Gold medalist at the Tokyo and Paris Paralympic Games

The victim of a serious accident on a construction site in 2010 where he worked as a bricklayer and tile-layer, Alexis had his leg saved following some thirty operations over 3 years. Continuing to suffer from pain, he then requested to have his leg amputated in 2013, the starting point of a new life for him.

“For me, there’s no boundary between triathlon and paratriathlon. I feel I’m a fully-fledged triathlete. I don't really have a disability, I have a difference.”

Already well into sport before his accident, Alexis embarked on the triathlon discipline. One way for him to set himself an ambitious goal. With no coach, in 2016 he became French runner-up in this sport. From then on, he turned to the French team, and victory after victory followed.

Alexis had his mind set on gold at the Paris 2024 Games, and got it!

In the shoes of Alexis Hanquinquant

Arkema today is a major player in French sport and can help make sport accessible to everybody, disabled or not.”

2024

  • Paratriathlon European Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon World Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon Paralympic Champion PTS4

2023

  • Paratriathlon European Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon World Champion PTS4

2022

  • Paratriathlon French champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon European Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon World Champion PTS4

2021

  • Paratriathlon French champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon European Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon World Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon Paralympic Champion PTS4

2020

  • Paratriathlon French champion PTS4

2019

  • Paratriathlon French champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon European Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon World Champion PT4

2018

  • Paratriathlon French champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon European Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon World Champion PT4

2017

  • Paratriathlon French champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon European Champion PTS4
  • Paratriathlon World Champion PT4

2016

  • Paratriathlon French Runner-up PT4

Clara Mateo

Football player and engineer

A young player with the Paris FC in Arkema Première Ligue and in the French national women’s football team, Clara is also an Arkema employee!

Following an internship in the Group in 2019 as she was studying materials engineering at the Ecole Polytech Paris-Saclay, she joined Arkema on graduation as a Business Development Engineer.
 

“The competition I would love to win? The Olympic Games!”

There’s plenty in common between my sporting activity and what I do in the corporate world. The idea is to improve the performance of athletes.”

A podcast about her career

In "Clara Mateo, en équilibre", a podcast produced by the French Soccer Federation, Clara talks about her career and how she reconciles her two careers: business developer at Arkema on the one hand, and French international player on the other.

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST (in french)

2022

  • Semi-finalist national French team at Euro 2022
  • Member of the team for the 2021/2022 season at the UNFP French Football Trophies
  • Player of the month February 2022 in D1 Arkema

2020

  • First appearance with French national team

2016

  • U-19 European Champion (French national team)
  • U-20 Women's World Cup Runner-up (French national team)

Jessica Sobrino

A multi-medal-winning champion

A member of the Mexican national team since the age of 12, Jessica has a rare tenacity: standing at 1.58 m, she is proud to claim that she won her case to eliminate the 1.60 m rule that restricted athletes below this height.

She has already won medals at the Pan-American, Central American and Caribbean Games, as well as the World Team Championships!

« Artistic swimming is a very tiring sport, even if it doesn't look like it, even if we are smiling all the time. »

Jessica trains nearly 8 hours a day, as artistic swimming is a very complete sport: it includes acrobatics like gymnastics, but also swimming, ballet and dance.

Supported by Arkema, Jessica and the Mexican national team will be doing their utmost to add another medal to their record of achievements in Paris in 2024!

Arkema partners Mexico's women's artistic swimming team

I think there is no longer a stereotype dictating what an artistic swimmer should be like. It is simply a lot of passion, a lot of commitment.

2024

World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup:

  • Gold medal - Team Acrobatic 
  • Gold medal - Team technocal

2023

World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2023

  • Gold medal - Team Acrobatic
  • Gold medal - Team technical

Pan American Games:

  • Gold medal - Team

Central American and Caribbean Games:

  • Gold medal - Women Team Free
  • Silvermedal - Women Team Technical

2019

FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019:

  • Bronze medal - Women Team Technical

     

2018

FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018

  • Gold medal - Women Team Free Combination
  • Gold medal - Women Team Free
  • Gold medal - Women Team Technical

Gaëtane Thiney

An accomplished football player

An experienced professional player, Gaëtane started in the women’s D1 in 2000, aged 14 years old. Since then, she has had no break in her professional career, in particular with many international appearances in the French team between 2007 and 2019.
 

“Sport gives me discipline, the ability to push my limits, rigor, and pleasure in enjoying the here and now.”

Between the corporate world and the world of sport, there’s a real cross-over in terms of skills. Every day you have this pursuit of performance.”

Alongside her sporting career, Gaëtane is national technical adviser at the Fédération française de football, in charge of the development of football in young people.

Arkema has sponsored Gaëtane since 2019 as part of a long-term partnership.

2014

  • Best female player in Women’s D1

2012

  • Best female player in Women’s D1

2007

  • First appearance in French national colors

2003

  • U-19 European Champion (French national team)

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