Raidlight Ambassadors

📍 Oman en Jordanie
👤 Trail legend Salameh Al Aqra is an iconic athlete, best known for his many victories in prestigious Desert races. His greatest achievements include victories at the Marathon des Sables, Raidlight Desert Trophy, ultra X jordan
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Raidlight Desert Trophy Marathon des Sables.
🎯 2025 - to be specified
❝❞ The desert teaches man that patience and determination are the only roads to victory.
📸 @salamehalaqra

📍 Lyon (69)
Trail and triathlon coach,
🏃‍♂️ 220 Raidlight Désert Trophy
❝Remember that anything is possible for those who dream, dare, work and, above all, never give up!❞
📸@matthieu_training

📍 Heyrieux (38)
👤 30 years of trail and
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Diagonale des fous, Festitrail de Chartreuse
🎯 2025 : marathon du
mont blanc !!! off for one week on the route of Compostelle
❝❞ Whoever thinks of happiness
finds it 😉
📸  @joel_raidlight

📍 Orléans (45)
👤 Managing director of a training center, French Sign Language translator, marathon runner since 2018. 2h43 in 2024 in Paris. Passionate about trekking and trail running: GR 20 in 5 days, Kilimanjaro, Cappadocia, Uzbekistan, etc.
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Marathons and stage trailss
🎯 2025 : Trail en Islande, Croatie/Montenegro, Tour des Écrins, marathon to be decided
❝❞ Every day is a good day when you run
📸 @adrien_raidlight

📍 Arpenans (70)
👤 Teacher and outdoor sports enthusiast
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ TDS and TOR des Géants
🎯 2025 : X Alpine à Verbier
❝❞ Always believe in your dreams
👍 @franck.arrigoni.587

📍Cagnes sur mer (06)
👤 Handling salesperson; runner, cyclist, swimmer, as well as gastronome
🏃‍♂️ Diagonale des fous
🎯2025 Always having so much fun
❝“Let the adventure continue"
📸 @as_fred

📍 Gironde
👤 Professional firefighter, trail runner, triathlete, trekker, I like to travel within myself and in the heart of nature..
🏃‍♂️❤️ Marathon des sables, & grand raid des Pyrénées
🎯 2025 : Enjoying my sport every day. Say yes to every race number, if I'm in good shape..
❝❞ We've only got one life so go for it, tomorrow will be too late.
📸 @p0mmeliine

📍 Lyon / Saint-Uze
👤 B&B manager, outdoor adventure lover
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ OCC
🎯 Return to longer formats: maratrail, OCC
❝❞ since you don't have the talent, go for it.
📸 @yanstabarn

📍Blois (41)
👤Professional sports educator. Addicted to sport from a very young age, with gymnastics, dance, running, trail running, cycling, crossfit and weightlifting.
🏃🏼‍♀️❤️ Saintélyon ✨
🎯 2025 : Queyras 166, tor130...
❝❞ It's a long way to go but well worth the effort.
📷 @marie.basti27

📍 Lyon
👤 Ultratrailer in lipstick 💄
🏃‍♂️ LyonSaintéLyon
🎯 UTMB
❝❞ Your only limit is yourself
📸 @Patty_madeinitaly

📍 Châtel (74)
👤 After growing up in Morzine and living abroad, I came back to the trails I love. Specializing in half-marathons (19th in Lyon, 9th in Rome), I discovered a real passion for trail running..
🏃‍♀️ ❤️ The MCC
🎯 2025 : Back on track after two births in 12 months, and back to racing in the autumn or at the Raidlight Winter Trail.
❝❞ Where there's a will, there's a way!
📸 @hikelikeagirl_

📍 Saint Pierre de Chartreuse (38)
👤 Athlete of Life
🏃‍♂️ Chartreuse Terminorum
🎯 2025 : To be the 1st Finisher of the TOR des Glaciers
❝❞ It always seems impossible until you do it!
👍 @aquestforauthenticity

📍 Lurcy (01)
👤 A passionate and epicurean runner who likes to run in good company and share a good refito after the effort.
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Raidlight Desert Trophy
🎯 2025 a new stage race
❝❞ Alone we go faster, together we go further
📸 @cel.in.trailandrun

📍 Vignoc (35)
👤 A secondary school PE teacher who has been passionate about sports since childhood, practising a variety of outdoor activities: snorkelling, golf, cycling, paddle, hiking and, of course, running (cross-country, trail, road).
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Cross & Saintélyon
🎯 2025 : French Masters cross-country championships and a 100 km or 3-4 day challenge
❝❞ Rise with determination, lie down with satisfaction
👍 @dbonnin1

📍 Annecy
👤 Young dad, outdoor enthusiast
🏃‍♂️ Maxi Race Annecy
🎯 42km du Mont Blanc
❝❞ Don't wait, live life to the full !
📸 @Val_trail

📍 Niort (79), from La Rochelle
👤 Nurse anesthetist, retired in January 2025. A lifelong sports enthusiast, I discovered trail running in Martinique in 2005 with the Tchimbé Raid. Trail running has become my ally in my physical and mental recovery from cancer.
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Trail du Vulcain & fan of Grand Raid de la Réunion, objective for my 60th birthday with my son.
🎯 2025 : UTPMA (105 km) or GRP (80/120 km)
❝❞ Sport, and trail running in particular, is the best medicine.
👍@jean.chapot

📍Fontaine (38)
👤Second pastry chef and
afor short and very short distances
🏃‍♂️ Charteuse Trail
Festival
🎯 2025... a first
ultra with ut4m or the Vercors ultra trail
👀 Don't stop when you're tired, but only when you've finished.
📸@lateliergourmanddutrailer

📍 Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse👤 Raidlight sports equipment sales consultant, qualified
in nutrition and a lifelong sportswoman (combat sports, climbing, triathlon) before concentrating on running.
🏃‍♂️ Le défis de la Muzelle aux Deux Alpes
🎯 To be finalised with a long distance in the spring and Sierre Zinal in the summer. 
❝Always take things seriously and never take yourself too seriously❞ 
📸 @marie_Ina

📍 Beaufort-sur-Doron (73)
👤 Young man aged 25, sales manager in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, passionate about outdoor sports
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ UTMB Chamonix
🎯 2025 : CCC revenge
❝❞ « Impossible is not in my vocabulary »
📸 @valentin.crz

📍 Dol-de-Bretagne (35)
👤 Professional fireman with a passion for outdoor sports (trail running, mountain biking, road cycling, climbing, etc.)
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Marathon du Mont-Blanc
🎯 2025 : CCC
❝❞ Demanding standards lead to excellence
📸 @theo.dvx

📍 Bastia
👤 Chartered accountant, globe-trotter, vegetarian, passionate about the mountains, the sea, sport and animals!
🏃‍♂️ La diagonale des fous
🎯 2025 : the Swisspeak is catching my eye
❝❞ Collect the moments, not the things
📸 @sarah_kohlanta24

📍 Montville (76)
👤 Trailer and loyal to Raidlight for 15 years
🏃‍♂ Raidlight désert trophy
🎯 RAS
❝❞ Don't be afraid to move slowly - just be afraid to stop.
👍 @damien.domingo.9

📍 Troyes / Sainte Savine
👤 A late bloomer, resolutely focused on Ultra trails
🏃‍♂️ Diagonal des fous / 220MX3
🎯 2025 : 220MX3 / MALLORCA by UTMB
❝❞ Pain is temporary, abandonment is permanent

📍 Marseille
👤 renewable energy engineer - outdoor sports enthusiast
🏃‍♂️ la Skyrace de l’Echappée Belle
🎯 2025 : surprise 😅
❝❞ smile at life and life will smile back
📸 @les_aventures_de_nath

📍 Toulon (83)
👤 Lawyer and
sportive all-rounder !
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Raidlight Winter trail & Grand Raid
de Camargue
🎯 2025 : A first ‘real’ 100k ultra
❝❞ Where there's a will, there's a way. !
📸  @Val Engel 

📍 La Bédoule (13)

👤 Journalist Coach
youtubeur athlete OCR

🏃‍♂️ MK6, SpartanRace,

🎯 2025: SR World Championship

❝❞ Enjoy your life to the full you
will not have two !

📸  @sergefortini

📍 Moselle, Grand Est
🩺 National Education Nurse
❤️ The Monteynard maratrail
🎯 the infernal 70km Vosges trail
❝❞ What doesn't kill me... had better run fast!
👍🏼 @run_ganglie

📍 Greece 🇬🇷
🙎🏼‍♀️Athlete, sports influencer
🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️Tor des Geant, scenic, utlac et Great Himal Race.
🎯2025 : Everest Sky Everest and Tor des Glaciers.
❝❞ The world is a small place, but you can make it bigger by having more experiences, by travelling and by making your heart beat strong, because all hearts beat, but the difference lies in the strength of their beat!
📸 @asiminaigglezou

📍 Hauterives (26)

👤 Energy renovation technician, the end of an obese man (146 kgs) through the rebirth of a traileur he
6 years ago....
🏃‍♂️ L'endurance trail
des templiers
🎯 2025 : optimisation
, emotions, desire and pleasure
❝❞ The only limits are
those we give ourselves
📸 @julausan

📍 Rouen (76)
👤 I'm passionate about heritage, art and history, and have explored a wide range of sports, from tennis and figure skating in my teens, to triathlon, cycling, trail running, fitness and bodybuilding..
🏃‍♀️ ❤️ Sainte-Lyon, a magical night
🎯 2025 : Ironman, resumption of the ultra-trail with the Alsace (113 km) and, if drawn, the CCC, as well as a number of intermediate objectives.
❝❞ Train Dirty, Look Pretty
📸 @dedelfitfun

📍 Plestin les
Grèves (22)
👤 Fruit and vegetable employee, local press correspondent. Very attached to my region
Breton, mountain, trail, cycling and hiking. Trail running since 2007
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ 100km through the Monts d'Arrée in Brittany
🎯 2025 : more and more beautiful walks
❝❞ freedom and
take time to enjoy the scenery
👍@cyrille.lemarrec

📍Sainte-Marie (La Réunion)
👤Teacher during the week, runner on weekends ;)
🏃‍♀️❤ race: the Kalla (1st race I took part in when I started trail running in Réunion).
🎯 2025 : Zembrocal
❝❞ Alone we go faster, together we go further
📸 @elix_o_wax

📍 Saint-Denis, île de La Réunion 🇷🇪
👤 School teacher, father of 2 and passionate about all sports, especially endurance sports.
🏃‍♂️ Diagonale des fous
🎯 2025: to be decided
❝❞ Quote: ‘Wherever you go, go with your heart.’ Confucius
👍 @gregory.lamoly

📍 La Chapelle-en-Serval (60)
👤 Trained as an engineer, organiser of sporting events and passionate about long-distance races and adventures.
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ The 24H du Loup, of course 🐺
🎯 2025 : An adventure in the desert
❝❞ We adapt, we improvise, we master
📸 @hamadi_wolf

📍 Aureilhan (40)
👤 Fireman, long-distance runner between 80 and 120kms.
🏃‍♂️ Grand Raid des Pyrénées
🎯 2025 : probably a trip with friends
❝❞ Our only limit is the one we set ourselves
📸 @julien_laurent40

📍Besançon
👤 Étudiant en Master 2 Staps Magement du sport. Pratique le trail au sein du Grand Besançon Trail académie dans la team espoir
🏃‍♂️ Ultra marin 175km mon premier ultra à 21 ans 😍
🎯 Ultra trail du Grand Est by UTMB 175km et Grand Raid Diagonale des Fous 🤔
Citation : Jeune Traileur en quête d'ultra, passionné de la Montagne
📸 @Baptiste.lb25

📍 CREST (26)
👤 37 years old, young father. CNC programmer in the aerospace and medical industries. Started trail running 10 years ago, joined the Elite team.
🏃‍♂️❤️ La 6000D
🎯 2025 goal: run faster
"the faster you go, the shorter you run! »
📸 @jarno_legros

📍 Île de La Réunion since sept. 2024
👤 Public health officer, sports coach and athlete. Raidlight was my first equipment supplier and partner when I started trail running in 2013. I have taken part in major ultras such as the Diagonale des Fous, the UTMB, the Grand Raid des Pyrénées and stage races in Peru, Lapland and Kenya..
🏃‍♂️ Diagonale des fous(4th participation)
🎯 Ultra Trail de Flora
❝❞ Nature is always stronger than man, and it's in accepting it that we find our true strength..
📸 @veronique.lievin

📍 Grenoble (38)
👤 Student at INP
Ense3 and has competed in ski-mountaineering and ski-touring since the age of 14.
more recently, trail running as well.
🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Sierre-Zinal
🎯 2025 : SaintéLyon,
MIUT 80, French Short Trail Championship, Sierre-Zinal
❝❞ only people
disciplined are free!
📸 @a_mrtt

📍 Méziré (90)
👤 Research engineer
automobiles & energies, RAIDLIGHT ambassador since 2012, Ultra-Trailer
since 2020, Mountain & Trail, Road-Runner.
🏃‍♂️❤️ Grand-Raid, Échappée
Belle, Terminorum
🎯 2025 UTMB
❝❞ The important thing is not the
not the summit, but the path.
👍@nathanael.marlier.7

📍 Sélestat en alsace
👤 Restaurant manager and trail enthusiast for 5 years
🏃‍♂️ UTMB
🎯 2025 UTMB
❝❞ Quote We understand nature by resisting it
📸 @geoffrey_trailer

📍 Lieu de vie : Dijon
👤 Engineer and lifelong sportsman (handball hope centre at secondary school)
🏃‍♂️Trail du Canigou (my 1st mountain trail, I got a real kick out of it as it was very technical and I discovered the reality of trail running on a historic and authentic race).
🎯 2025 : maybe the GRR 😉, the French championship
❝❞ the slower you go, the faster you go 😁
👍 @thomas.paris.7393

📍 Le Bourg-d'Oisans (38)
👤 First-aid ski patroller, lover of nature and hard work
🏃‍♀️ ❤️ La Diagonale des Fous
🎯 2025 La Diagonale des Fous
❝❞ No pain, no gain
📸 @maudparois

📍Ile de la Réunion
👤 Sports coach, APAS teacher and Trail and running coach!
🏃🏽‍♀️‍➡️Cilaos Woman Trail
🎯 2025 : a race in my homeland South Africa 🇿🇦
« Live, laugh, love and Run »
👍🏼 @xena.gray

📍 Originally from the Vercors
👤 Passionate about adventure, the environment and outdoor sports, she's a versatile trail runner who enjoys obstacle courses, Ninja sports, archery on horseback and much more.
🏃‍♂️❤️ Alpha Run : his first obstacle course and his favourite.
🎯 2025 : Spartan Race, OCR, Ninja sport competitions... The coming year promises to be even more intense in terms of adrenalin and cardio!
❝❞ "Preserving nature is a matter of urgency. I strive to raise awareness of this essential cause, which has been close to my heart since childhood.
📸 @louve.vagabonde

📍 Balaruc-Les-Bains (34)
👤 Engineer, computer scientist, running for 25 years, running fan
stages in the desert in the heat, sand and on your own.
🏃‍♂️ Marathon Des Sables
Legendary
🎯 A trip to a
then a few Alpine and Pyrenean trails before setting off for the
first time on the Diag
❝❞Running seriously harms health
📸 @merilerobert

📍 St Pierre de Chartreuse.
👤 Long-distance runner.
🏃‍♂️ Le Grand Raid de la Réunion.
🎯 24h de l'Isère, La Terminorum, le Tor des Géants.
❝❞ life is too short not to run in the rain. Chartrousin proverb 🙃
👍 @Alexandra Rousset

📍Saint Etienne 💚
👤 Outdoor writer/ Traileur and YT content creator
🏃‍♂️la Saintelyon
🎯MCC 2025
❝❞On the Road Again‼️
📸 Insta: damselconejo

📍 Ile de La Réunion 🇷🇪
👤 School teacher and young mother with a passion for running and nature.
🏃‍♂️ Diagonale des fous
🎯 2025: Mascareignes
❝❞ « Always aim for the moon, because even if you fail, you'll land in the stars.. » Oscar Wilde
📸 @run_paille_en_queue

📍 Saint Julien 83
👤 Gendarme in the south of France and proud father of two daughters.
JI've been a runner for as long as I can remember, and a trail runner for the last fifteen years.
🏃‍♂️ SainteLyon
🎯2025: VVX 80 km
❝❞ Winning is not about finishing in first place. It's not about beating others. Winning is about overcoming yourself. Overcoming our bodies, our limits and our fears. Winning is about surpassing yourself and turning dreams into reality.
📸 @courir_pour_les_etoiles_bleues