Emma-Claire Fierce
Emma-Claire Fierce (born February 20, 1990) is an author, entrepreneur and extreme swimming sportswoman. She is the first French person to have swum across the Tsugaru Strait in Japan on July 20, 2019 (swimsuit) and the first French woman to attempt the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland on August 1, 2020.[1]
Fierce was born and raised in France. She worked for major international companies before changing careers in 2018.[2] In 2019, she started the Ocean Seven challenge, and is completing it by writing the Oceans Princess Lands saga.
Early Life
Childhood and family
Emma-Claire Fierce (born Faranda)[3] was born on February 20, 1990 in Saint-Étienne.
Education
In 2011, she obtained a bachelor's degree in applied foreign languages at Lyon III University and graduated the same year at the University of Leicester in England.[4] Two years later, she obtained a master's degree in marketing and international management from the Le Havre Normandy University in France while working for the Oil company Total SA.
Business Career
Corporate world
Between 2011 and 2018, she worked successively in the energy, aeronautics, pharmaceutical and organic food sectors in Belgium and France.[5]
Artistic Career
In 2018, Emma-Claire Fierce started to write for the theatres and took adult classes at the artistic school Beaux Arts de Nantes. [6]
Since 2019, her writings have focused on the Oceans Princess Lands saga.[7][8]
Theatre
In 2018, she wrote her first play "Marie-Paule Super-Deluxe", and during the following year she wrote nine plays, including the trilogy "Battons".
Fiction
In 2019, she started to write the first book of the Oceans Princess Lands Saga. A year later, she wrote two other novels named "Petite mort sublime" and "Un miroir à soi".
Sports
Swimming
In an interview, Emma-Claire Fierce stated she started swimming at the age of six and has continued the practice since then.[9] In 2015, she started swimming in open water at the annual competition of Piriac-sur-Mer, in France. Since then, she has participated in open water sports competitions with the Saint-Grégoire triathlon (2016),[10] the Défi des Ports (2017), the Albacor's Cup (2017)[11], the Piriac-sur-Mer raid (2018), the French championships in Lissac-sur-Couze (2019), the Coupe de France the DRAKKAR (2019), the first Ice Swimming in Bréhec (2020) where she finished first. [12][13][14]
Since 2019, she is the first and only French woman to have undertaken the Oceans Seven. [15]
Other sports
Emma-Claire Fierce has practised other sports such as tennis, cross-fit and dance which are mentioned in her books.
Oceans 7 : The French Girl
In 2019, she became the first French person to commit to the Oceans Seven challenge. She says she approached that sports challenge with a mindset closer to an explorer than a sportsperson, but she has never denied the physical demands of the swimming challenge.[16] Her transformation of the sports challenge into a cultural adventure includes two major cultural aspects:
- The challenge of swimming
Swims
On July 20, 2019, Emma-Claire Fierce became the first French woman to swim the Tsugaru Strait in 34.85 kilometres in a swimsuit in 9 hours and 51 minutes.[18][19]
On August 1, 2020, Emma-Claire Fierce became the first French woman to attempt to cross the North Channel. The expedition was stopped after more than eight hours of swimming in 12-degree Celsius water because of sea currents causing drift to the north. [20][21]
As part of her preparation, she also participated in various swimming competitions including the 24 hours by the OIC in Lausanne, Switzerland in October 2019, finishing first after swimming non-stop for 24 hours.[22]
Other Activities
Claire Fierce has worked with various associations, including FACE and Rêves. [23]
Honours and Awards
Awards in Sports
| Year | Sporting Event | Ranking / Time |
| 2019 | French Championships in Lissac-sur-Couze | N/A |
| 2019 | Coupe de France la DRAKKAR | 13th |
| 2019 | Tsugaru Channel | First French person |
| 2019 | 24H Natation Suisse | First French person |
| 2020 | Ice Swimming France | First French person |
| 2020 | North Channel | First French person attempt |
Bibliography
| Target/
Type |
Series/
Description |
Title | Year | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theater | Single Play | Marie-Paule Super-Deluxe | 2018 | 9798815348981 |
| Hors-Sujette | 2019 | 9798815623002 | ||
| La Dose | 2019 | 9798815796676 | ||
| Nouveaux Jouets | 2019 | 9798815596832 | ||
| 3 Histoires 2 Loups dans 1 Bar | 2019 | 9798815883550 | ||
| Valse à Tambours Battue | 2019 | 9798815903784 | ||
| Anthropologie Théâtrale | 2022 | 9782493421357 | ||
| Trilogy "Battons" | BATTONS I - Se Bat-on pour ça ? | 2019 | 9798815516267 | |
| BATTONS II - S'ébat-on pour ça ? | 2019 | 9798815555587 | ||
| BATTONS III - Ses bas tombent pour ça ... | 2019 | 9798815574649 | ||
| Novels | Single Book | Petite Mort Sublime | 2019 | 9798815820029 |
| Novels | Single Book | Un Miroir à soi | 2020 | 9798815857353 |
| General | Single Book | W52L | 2022 | 9782493421234 |
| Young Adult
Fiction |
Oceans Princess Lands Saga | 1. TSUGARU - 9 H 51 min 24 sec | ? | ? |
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References
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