Esther Turpin (born 29 April 1996 in Saint-Joseph, Réunion) is a French athlete competing in the combined events.

Biography

Esther Turpin's first club was AC Saint-Joseph (La Réunion France), where her older siblings were already involved in athletics. She turned to combined events, wanting to follow in the footsteps of her older sister, who competed in the heptathlon.[1] In 2018, she was studying psychomotor therapy.

Esther won national titles in 2012, becoming the French cadet heptathlon champion, a title she retained the following year in the same category. She followed the same path in 2014, becoming the French junior heptathlon champion.

Her 2015 was less successful, as she failed to complete her combined events at the French junior championships in Tours (Metropolitan France).

She left for mainland France in September for RC Arras (Metropolitan France), with the goal of moving up a gear, particularly thanks to a higher athlete density than in Réunion Island.[1]

She quickly returned to success and in 2016 she won the French Under-23 heptathlon champion title. This title was extended from the heptathlon to the pentathlon in 2017, to which she also won a silver medal at the French Elite Indoor Championships[2]. Following her strong performances, she received an invitation from the European Federation to compete in the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.[3] She finished 14th with 4,143 points.[4] That same year, at the European Under-23 Championships, she scored 5,940 points, finishing just off the podium.[5]

Her 2018 season got off to a strong start; on February 17, she became the French Elite Pentathlon Champion in Liévin (Metropolitan France).[6]