Emma-Claire Fierce
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Emma-Claire Fierce (born February 20, 1990) is an author, entrepreneur and extreme swimming sportswoman. She is the first French 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 she changed career in 2018.[2] In 2019, she started the Ocean seven challenge. She is completing it by writing the Oceans Princess Lands saga.
Early Life[edit]
Childhood and family[edit]
Emma-Claire Fierce (born faranda)[3] was born on February 20, 1990 in Saint-Etienne, France.
Education[edit]
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 University of Le Havre in France while she was working for the Oil company Total SA.
Business Career[edit]
Corporate world[edit]
Between 2011 and 2018, she worked successively in the energy, aeronautics, pharmaceutical and organic food sectors in Belgium and France.[5]
Artistic Career[edit]
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 only revolve around the Oceans Princess Lands saga.[7][8]
Theatre[edit]
In 2018, she wrote her first play "Marie-Paule Super-Deluxe", during the following year she wrote nine plays, including the trilogy "Battons".
Fiction[edit]
In 2019, she started to write the first book of the Oceans Princess Lands Saga. A year later, she wrote two other non-related novels named "Petite mort sublime" and "Un miroir à soi".
Sports[edit]
Swimming[edit]
In an interview, Emma-Claire Fierce evokes 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 performed 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 who has engaged in the realisation of the Oceans seven.[15]
Other sports[edit]
Emma-Claire Fierce has practised other sports such as tennis, cross-fit and dance which are evoked in her books.
Oceans 7 : The French Girl[edit]
In 2019, she became the first French to commit to the Oceans seven challenge. She says she came into that sports challenge with a mindset closer to an explorer than a sportsperson but she has never denied the heavy duty of the swimming challenge on her body.[16] Her transformation of the sports challenge into a cultural adventure includes 2 majors cultural aspects :
- The challenge of swimming
Swims[edit]
On July 20, 2019, Emma-Claire Fierce became the first French woman to swim in 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 try to cross the North Channel. The expedition was forced to stop after more than eight hours swimming in a 12-degree Celsius water because of the sea currents causing drift to 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 24 hours non-stop.[22]
Other Activities[edit]
Claire Fierce has worked with various associations, including FACE association and Rêves association.[23]
Honours and Awards[edit]
Awards in Sports[edit]
| Année | Évènement sportif | Classement / Temps |
| 2019 | Championnats de France de Lissac-sur-Couze | N/A |
| 2019 | Coupe de France la DRAKKAR | 13ème |
| 2019 | Tsugaru Channel | Première Française |
| 2019 | 24H Natation Suisse | Première Française |
| 2020 | Ice Swimming France | Première Française |
| 2020 | North Channel | Première Française tentative |
Bibliography[edit]
| 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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