Nélie Clément (born 13 July 2003) is French long-distance, mountain, and cross country runner. A winner in 2025 in the WMRA World Cup and a silver medalist in the team uphill race at the 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships, Clément won the gold medal in the under-23 team event at the 2025 European Cross Country Championships.
Biography Clément is from Gap, Hautes-Alpes, and trained as a member of GH2A and the Hautes-Alpes Elite club. She won French age-group titles in 2022 on the track and the roads, and was selected for the French junior team for the World Mountain Running Championships held in Chiang Mai, Thailand in November 2022.
In 2023, she placed fourth in the U23 category at the French Cross Country Championships. In March 2024, she was the runner-up at the French junior cross-country championships, having achieved a Top 10 overall finish in the women's race. In 2024, she won three gold medals, beckoning French Champion in mountain running and vertical climbing in the senior category as well as in the team event, at the French mountain running championships.
In July 2025, she won a stage of the WMRA World Cup. In 2025, she placed eighth individually and won a silver medal with the French team in the Team uphill race in Canfranc, Spain, at the 2025 World Mountain and Trail Running Championships.
Clément won the gold medal in the under-23 team event at the 2025 European Cross Country Championships in Portugal, placing ninth overall as the third French finisher behind Julia David-Smith and Camille Place.
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