Monique Éwanjé-Épée

Monique Éwanjé-Epée
Personal information
Nationality	100m hurdles
Medal record
World Indoor Championships
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
Summer Universiade
Jeux de la Francophonie
European Junior Championships

Monique Éwanjé-Épée Lewin (née Éwanjé-Épée, formerly Tourret; born 11 July 1967)

Olympic Games

in 1988, 1992 and 1996.

Career

Éwanjé-Épée was born in

Ludmila Narozhilenko

of the Soviet Union.

Éwanjé-Épée reached her peak in the 1990 outdoor season, improving her own French 100m hurdles record to 12.56 on 29 June. This was the second fastest time in the world for 1990, with only

Track and Field News magazine and the Athletics International Annual, ranked Ewanje-Épée the number one 100m hurdler on their world merit rankings, ahead of Grigoryeva. In the 1991 indoor season, she won a silver medal in the 60m hurdles at the World Indoor Championships in Seville, narrowly losing out to Narozhilenko by two-hundredths of a second. Outdoors, she finished fourth in the 100m hurdles final at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo, behind Narozhilenko, Gail Devers

and Grigoryeva.

Éwanjé-Èpée won a silver medal in the 60m hurdles at the 1992 European Indoor Championships in Genoa, once again behind Narozhilenko and ahead of Yordanka Donkova. Outdoors, she competed at her second Olympics, where she was eliminated in the heats of the 100m hurdles. Having missed the 1993 season through pregnancy, she returned in 1994 competing under her then married name of Monique Tourret, and went on to finish fourth in the 60m hurdles final at the 1995 World Indoor Championships. In 1996, she won a bronze medal in the 60m hurdles at the European Indoor Championships, before going on to compete at her third Olympic Games, where she was eliminated in the quarter-finals.^[2]

Éwanjé-Épée is still the holder of the

Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. This record was equalled by Cindy Billaud in 2014. Her French national indoor record for the women's 60m hurdles (7.82 sec), set on 23 February 1991 in Paris, also still stands. It was equalled on 7 March 2004 by Linda Ferga

at the 2004 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

Personal life

Éwanjé-Épée is married to gospel singer Frederick Lewin, with whom she has a son, Joachim (born 2006). She was previously married to the French pole vaulter Christophe Tourret, with whom she has two daughters, Marylou (1993) and Olivia (1997). Her elder sister, Maryse Éwanjé-Épée, is the French record holder in the high jump and reached the Olympic high jump final in 1984 and 1988.

Results in international competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
1985	European Junior Championships	Cottbus, East Germany	1st	100 m hurdles	13.10
1986	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	10th (sf)	60 m hurdles	8.06
1986	European Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	14th (sf)	100 m hurdles	13.29
1988	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	7th	100 m hurdles	13.14
1989	European Indoor Championships	The Hague, Netherlands	5th	60 m hurdles	8.22
	World Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	8th (h)	60 m hurdles	8.08
	Jeux de la Francophonie	Rabat, Morocco	1st	100 m hurdles	12.92
	Universiade	Duisburg, West Germany	1st	100 m hurdles	12.65 (GR, NR)
1990	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, Scotland	2nd	60 m hurdles	7.84
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	1st	100 m hurdles	12.79
	IAAF Grand Prix Final	Athens, Greece	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.86
1991	World Indoor Championships	Seville, Spain	2nd	60 m hurdles	7.90
	European Cup	Frankfurt, Germany	2nd	100 m hurdles	12.79
	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	4th	100 m hurdles	12.84
1992	European Indoor Championships	Genoa, Italy	2nd	60 m hurdles	7.99
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	30th (h)	100 m hurdles	13.73
1994	Jeux de la Francophonie	Bondoufle, France	6th	100 m hurdles	13.61
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	18th (h)	100 m hurdles	13.29
1995	World Indoor Championships	Barcelona, Spain	4th	60 m hurdles	7.98
	European Cup	Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France	4th	100 m hurdles	12.92
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	17th (h)	100 m hurdles	13.13
1996	European Indoor Championships	Stockholm, Sweden	3rd	60 m hurdles	8.09
1996	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	28th (qf)	100 m hurdles	13.17
(#) Indicates overall position in qualifying heats (h) quarterfinals (qf) or semifinals (sf)

References

^ "Monique Éwanjé-Épée-Tourret". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2012.
^ Sports Reference. "Monique Éwanjé-Épée-Tourret". Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2011.

Fédération Française d'Athlétisme, ed. (2003), Docathlé2003 (in French), pp. 41, 117, 147, 175, 195, 214, 402,
ISBN 2-9512343-3-3

Siukonen, Markku & Ahola, Matti (1990), Sporttikustannus Oy (ed.), Suuri EM-kirja, p. 208,
ISBN 951-8920-11-7

Peter Matthews (Hrsg.): Athletics 1997. Surbiton 1997,
ISBN 1-899807-02-0

Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation e.V.)

External links

Monique Éwanjé-Épée at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Monique Éwanjé-Épée at
Olympedia
Monique Éwanjé-Épée at World Athletics

[1] "Monique Éwanjé-Épée-Tourret". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2012.

[2] Sports Reference. "Monique Éwanjé-Épée-Tourret". Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2011.

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