Flavien Szot
French middle-distance runner (born 2001)
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Flavien Szot (born 6 September 2001) is a French middle-distance and cross country runner.[1]
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| Born | 6 September 2001 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Events | Middle-distance running, cross country running | ||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Pol Domenech | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 800m: 1:45.71 (2026) 1500m: 3:30.74 (2025) Mile: 3:52.67 (2025) 3000m: 7:39.89 (2026) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
From Castres,[2] his running clubs have included Bordeaux Athle,[3] and Racing Multi Athlon.[4] The French U23 Cross Country champion in Carhaix in 2023, and that year won a silver medal with the French U23 men's team at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships in Brussels.[5][6][2]
Competing in Dresden, Germany, in the World Athletics Continental Tour on 1 June 2025, Szot ran a personal best time for the 1500 metres of 3:33.72.[7] Later that month, Szot ran a new personal best 3:30.74 as he competed over 1500 metres at the 2025 Meeting de Paris.[8] He ran 3:54.74 in the invitational mile the following month at the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on 5 July.[9] That month, Szot set a meeting record of 7:41.63 for the 3000 metres at the Meeting International de Marseille.[10] In Oslo, in August, Szot was runner-up to Canadian Max Davies in 3:34.52 for the 1500 metres at the Sankthanshaugen 5,000 meeting.[11] He placed fifth in the 1500 metres at the 2025 French Championships, running 3:34.29 in Talence.[12]
In January 2026, he won in the mile at the Dr. Sander Invitational in New York.[13][14] The following month, he was runner-up to Azeddine Habz over 3000 metres at the 2026 French Indoor Athletics Championships in Aubiere.[15]
In May 2026, he ran a season’s best 3:32.24 for the 1500 metres metres at the 2026 Meeting International Mohammed VI d'Athlétisme de Rabat, part of the 2026 Diamond League.[16] On 7 June, he had a top-ten finish in the 1500 m at the Diamond League event in Stockholm.[17]