VOTE. Who do you think is the Rennes personality of the year 2021?<

She marked the year or at least she marked you. Who, among this selection proposed by the Ouest-France editorial staff, is in your opinion the Rennes personality of the year 2021? We let you make up your own mind and vote, until Thursday, December 30!

Double Olympic medalist Clarisse Agbegnenou

The 29-year-old judoka, born prematurely in Rennes hospital, has taken her revenge. For a second time, after 2019, the "Queen Clarisse" was crowned Olympic judo champion this summer in Tokyo (individual and team), after being the flag bearer of the French delegation during the opening ceremony.

To avoid spoiling anything, Clarisse Agbegnenou has remained very simple and committed (against sexist stereotypes and gender inequalities in sport, or even to break the taboo of sportswomen's menstruation). She was back in Rennes at the end of November to answer questions from primary school students about her career and present her book, Combattre pour être soi.

Medical staff at the CHU

They are certainly not "a personality" but how not to pay tribute to the Rennes caregivers who, during this second year of Covid, have once again shown dedication and professionalism.

With the 5^th wave, to which the arrival of the Omicron variant is added, the teams, exhausted and sometimes called back on their holidays, are once again experiencing maximum tension at the end of the year . The editorial staff therefore proposes to the vote the nursing staff of the Rennes University Hospital (doctors and nurses, nursing auxiliaries, stretcher bearers, etc.), both in the intensive care unit, in the (overwhelmed) emergency room, and in the other services which had to adapt.

Read also: With the Covid-19, maximum tension at the Rennes University Hospital at the end of the year

Samuel Étienne and his press review

Journalist from Rennes on France Info and host of Questions pour un champion, he became a star of the Twitch platform, with his morning press review.

A live, interactive and fun video meeting, during which he dissects the news through articles from the daily paper newspapers, and which brings together thousands of "viewers" every day, particularly young people. . After four months of a frantic daily rhythm, the animator and father of two young children took a break last April. Before returning in September with its famous press review, several mornings a week. And this, always with so much success!

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Ayla Saura and Solveig Touzé, award-winning booksellers of the Night of Time

A great reward for the two friends, in their early thirties, four years after opening their bookstore La Nuit des temps at the corner of quai Emile-Zola and rue du Capitaine-Dreyfus. Ayla Saura and Solveig Touzé received the Special Prize for Booksellers in the fall, from the professional magazine Livres Hebdo.

Their general bookstore committed to the social sciences (feminist, ecologist, anti-racist books, etc.) has won over a rather young and increasingly large audience. Their secret? “We believe in benevolence and discussion. The book touches the intimate, the story of each. The titles presented have been chosen voluntarily. Will you crown them with a second distinction this year?

Lujipeka releases his first solo album

Lucas Taupin (alias Lujipeka), 26-year-old rapper from Rennes and ex-member of the Rennes collective Columbine, double platinum disc, released his first solo album, Montagnes Russes, in November. A springboard year, since he also performed at the Trans Musicales festival, where he was chosen for the creation (after Stromae, Aloïse Sauvage, etc.)

In his songs, Lujipeka recounts his time, his life and his doubts, especially those that cross him between late adolescence and early adulthood. If the health situation does not interfere, the Rennais will give several concerts in 2022. Passage of the roller coaster... at the zenith?

Dali Benssalah, who starred in the last James Bond

The “French revelation” of the latest James Bond Dying Can Wait, released in October, is from Rennes. However, nothing predisposed Dali Benssalah, 29, to become an actor. High school student in eco-management in Brequigny, his mother accidentally offered him an internship at Cours Florent. Having entered a bachelor's degree in economics, he continued Thai boxing fights to save money and enroll in this renowned theater school.

After notably appearing in the Les Sauvages series (with Leïla Bekhti and Roschdy Zem), he shares the bill this time with Léa Seydoux and Daniel Craig, for his last role in the costume of 007. Dali Benssalah plays Primo , a mercenary employed by the secret criminal organization of the Spectre… Who we will probably not be without seeing again.

Scientist Eszter Dudas

She works on modeling the atmosphere of distant giant planets. It is for her research that the scientist from the Institute of Physics of Rennes received the L’Oréal-Unesco Young Talents Prize for women and science at the beginning of October.

In concrete terms, it is a question of unraveling the origin and the formation of exoplanets, these planets located outside the solar system. And this, thanks to advances in infrared astronomy making it possible to “probe the composition of the atmospheres of gaseous giant exoplanets located several tens of light-years away, and whose external temperature can reach 3,000°C”.

Professor Tattevin, infectious disease specialist at Rennes University Hospital

Medicine, always, but difficult to do otherwise at the end of a year once again marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to his position as head of the infectiology department at the Rennes University Hospital, Professor Pierre Tattevin has been regularly in the media for two years to explain, reassure or decipher the health situation, in the light of his expertise. The infectious disease specialist, member of the High Council for Public Health, is also recognized for his work on HIV.

You can vote for your favorite Rennes 2021 personality on Ouest-france.fr Rennes page until Thursday, December 30, 2021, at 6 p.m.