Emily Harrop
Emily Harrop is a French ski mountaineer. She is a three-time World Champion.
Career
Harrop began her career in alpine skiing before switching to ski mountaineering at 20 years old. She made her European Championships debut in 2022 and won a gold medal in the inaugural mixed relay, along with Thibault Anselmet, with a time of 32:10. She also won a bronze medal in the sprint race with a time of 3:15.725.Harrop made her World Championships debut at the 2023 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering. On the first day of the championships she won a bronze medal in the sprint race with a time of 3:16.248. She then won a gold medal in the team race, along with Axelle Gachet Mollaret, with a time of 2:12:48.9. On the final day of the championships she won a gold medal in the mixed team relay, along with Anselmet, with a time of 26:46.5.
In March 2025, she competed at the 2025 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering and won a gold medal in the mixed relay, along with Anselmet, with a time of 32:44.1. With the win, France earned a quota spot for the discipline at the 2026 Winter Olympics. She also won a silver medal in the sprint race, with a time of 3:13.04, and a bronze medal in the individual race with a time of 1:40:43.1.
During the 2024–25 ISMF Ski Mountaineering World Cup, she won gold in the first-ever Olympic ski mountaineering test event, held in Bormio, Italy, on 22 February 2025. The win marked her fourth sprint win of the season. She finished the season with seven wins out of seven races in the discipline, and won the sprint and overall World Cup crystal globe for the fourth consecutive season.