Dorian Rey: "I want to do the best I can".
Third-year Staps student Dorian Rey came first in the university weightlifting and bodybuilding championships held in Orléans on March 23 and 24, 2024.
Dorian Rey didn't win just one medal this year, but two: first place in weightlifting, and first place in bodybuilding. With 120 kilos in the snatch and 140 kilos in the clean and jerk, the student carries his weight in the university sports circuit and climbs to the top of the weightlifting podium. To win first place in bodybuilding, he had to win four new events: bench press, rowing, pull-ups and weightlifting.
The journey that led him to these victories began when the 13-year-old took up crossfit. "It's a constantly varied, high-intensity mix of functional movements," explains Dorian Rey. But as there is no crossfit federation, there is no university championship in the discipline either, which led the young man to compete in weightlifting and bodybuilding.
14 hours of weekly training
I train two hours a day from Monday to Friday, then three hours on Saturdays, and sometimes on Sundays too ". In other words, almost 14 hours of training a week, most of which is spent at the Palais Universitaire des Sports, next door to the UFR Staps where he is studying for his third year of a degree in sports training, with a career goal of "why not physiotherapy ?
Although the student has no problems reconciling his studies with his training, he confesses to a "slightly busy week as exams approach, when you sometimes have to choose between training and revising". Dorian Rey, who is also a member of the ALSDD weightlifting club in Toulon, is now keen to see how far he can go. " I never imagined myself at the French championships, so even if I don't know what tomorrow will bring, I want to do the best I can.