Renaud Lavillenie

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Renaud Lavillenie
NR[2] (Donetsk
2014)
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 0
World Championships
 0 1 4
World Indoor Championships
 3 0 0
European Championships 3 0 1
European Indoor Championships 4 0 0
Continental Cup 1 1 0
Total 12 3 5
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Pole vault
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Pole vault
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Moscow Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Beijing Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Daegu Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Berlin Pole vault
World Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Birmingham Pole vault
Gold medal – first place 2016 Portland Pole vault
Gold medal – first place 2012 Istanbul Pole vault
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Zürich Pole vault
Gold medal – first place 2012 Helsinki Pole vault
Gold medal – first place 2010 Barcelona Pole vault
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Berlin Pole vault
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place
2015 Prague
 Pole vault
Gold medal – first place
2013 Göteborg
 Pole vault
Gold medal – first place
2011 Paris
 Pole vault
Gold medal – first place
2009 Turin
 Pole vault
Continental Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 Marrakech
Pole vault
Silver medal – second place 2018 Ostrava
Pole vault
Silver medal – second place 2010 Split
Pole vault

Renaud Lavillenie (French pronunciation: [ʁə.no la.vi.lə.ni] or [ʁə.no la.vil.ni]; born 18 September 1986) is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie won the

IAAF Diamond League
in seven consecutive years, from 2010 to 2016.

Outside pole vaulting, Lavillenie is a keen motorcyclist, and raced in the 2013 Le Mans 24 Hours for motorcycles, finishing 25th. Lavillenie subsequently entered the 2014 race, aiming for a top 20 finish.[5] Lavillenie's younger brother Valentin Lavillenie is also a pole vaulter.

Early life

Renaud Lavillenie was born in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente, France. His father was a pole vaulter. Renaud made his pole vault competition debut in 2003, at the age of 17.[1]

Pole vaulting career

2008

Lavillenie's 2008 outdoor personal best was 5.65 m, achieved on 27 June in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. His 2008 indoor personal best was 5.81 metres, achieved on 5 December in Aulnay-sous-Bois.[3]

2009: broke Jean Galfione's 10-year-old French national outdoor pole vault record

Lavillenie at the 2009 European Indoor Championships

Lavillenie's 2009 indoor personal best was also 5.80 m – he cleared that height in Moscow and to win the 2009 European Indoor Championships pole vault final in Turin.[3]

Lavillenie improved his outdoor personal best to 5.81 m in May 2009, beating veteran French pole vaulter

Steven Hooker and Romain Mesnil. He also took part in the 2009 IAAF World Athletics Final
but failed to record a mark and finished last.

2010: first European Championships gold medal

At the

Steven Hooker into second place.[8] Seven weeks later, he captured his first European Championships pole vault title
in Barcelona, with a jump of 5.85 m in the final.

2011: broke Jean Galfione's 12-year-old French national indoor pole vault record

On 5 March 2011, in the

2011 IAAF Diamond League to become its pole vault overall winner for the second year running. At the 2011 World Championships he cleared 5.85 m to win the World Championships pole vault bronze medal
for the second time running.

Renaud Lavillenie in 2012

Lavillenie underwent surgery on his left hand after he broke it due to a snapped pole accident in December 2011.[9]

2012: won the Olympic Games and World Indoor Championships gold medals for the first time

Lavillenie returned to competition in February 2012 and won the Pole Vault Stars meet with a clearance of 5.82 m.[10]

At the 2012 World Indoor Championships, Renaud Lavillenie won his first World Indoor Championships or World Championships gold medal by clearing 5.95 m in the final, which was 15 cm better than the silver and bronze medallists.

At the 2012 European Championships, Lavillenie cleared 5.97 m in the final to win the European Championships gold medal for the second time in a row.

At the 2012 Olympic Games, Lavillenie won the gold medal by clearing 5.97 m (a new Olympic record) in the final. He was in the bronze medal position (5.85 m) behind two Germans at 5.91 m – Björn Otto and Raphael Holzdeppe – when he cleared the aforementioned height on his third and final attempt. He had earlier failed to clear 5.91 m on his first attempt and 5.97 m on his second. After securing the gold medal when Otto and Holzdeppe failed later to match or better his 5.97 m, Lavillenie had one failed attempt at 6.02 m and two unsuccessful attempts at 6.07 m.[11] He thus won France its 14th track and field Olympic gold medal in history, became the first French track and field Olympic champion since 1996 and the third French men's Olympic pole vault champion.[12]

Lavillenie won five of the seven pole vault events in the

2012 IAAF Diamond League
to become its pole vault overall winner for the third year running.

2013 indoor season: third consecutive European Indoor Championships gold medal

At the

International Association of Athletics Federations regulation which operated in this case was Rule 182.2.a, which states that a vault shall be declared ineligible if "the bar does not remain on both pegs because of the action of the athlete".[13]

2013 outdoor season: third consecutive World Championships medal

Renaud Lavillenie in 2013

At 27 July 2013

2013 IAAF Diamond League – he won five of its eight pole vault events – for the fourth consecutive year.[14]

Lavillenie was the overwhelming favorite to win the

London Grand Prix. In the final of the 2013 World Championships, only Lavillenie and the German pole vaulter Raphael Holzdeppe managed to clear 5.89 m. Both of them failed to clear the next greater height of 5.96 m three consecutive times. Holzdeppe beat Lavillenie to the gold medal by virtue of his clearing the previous height of 5.89 m on his first attempt, whereas Lavillenie needed three attempts to clear 5.89 m. Lavillenie thus won the silver medal with a height of 5.89 m, the same height as Holzdeppe.[15]

Lavillenie attempted to break the 14-year-old

world decathlon best in the pole vault event (5.76 m, set by Tim Lobinger on 16 September 1999) at the annual Décastar meeting in September 2013, but he managed only to clear a height of 5.47 m in his specialist event.[16]

Despite not winning the World Championship title, the flying Frenchman lost only one other outdoor competition all season and he won the

IAAF Diamond League
race for his event for the fourth consecutive time in 2013.

2014 indoor season: broke absolute world record

Lavillenie was unbeaten in six indoor meetings during the 2014 winter season, and improved his national indoor record three times, including his world record performance in

Donetsk, Ukraine
on 15 February.

On 31 January 2014, Lavillenie cleared 6.08 m with some room to spare on his first attempt, at the

second highest personal best indoor clearance in history, behind Sergey Bubka's 6.15 m indoor world record set in Donetsk in 1993. It also enabled Lavillenie to overtake Steve Hooker to become the world's second-best pole vaulter (personal best indoor and outdoor clearances taken into consideration) in history, behind Bubka's personal bests of 6.14 m (outdoor) and 6.15 m (indoor). In both the Bydgoszcz and Rouen meetings, Lavillenie had the bar raised to a height of 6.16 m, but in both meetings he failed in all his three attempts to clear that height.[17]

Lavillenie claimed the men's world record with 6.16 m on 15 February 2014. Competing in the annual

Sopot, Poland on 7–9 March. Lavillenie was given a hero's welcome when he landed home on 16 February, showing up in the Charles de Gaulle Airport terminal building in crutches before a horde of journalists.[22] The new world record holder arrived home to an outpouring of praise from all quarters in a country where pole-vaulting is held in the highest esteem. "The New Czar," headlined the L'Équipe sports daily, saying that his giant leap in Ukraine had been "a major landmark in the history of sport." Lavillenie's compatriot, Jean Galfione, who won the 1996 Olympic pole vault gold medal, said, "Doing better than Bubka, it is like going faster than Usain Bolt, having better statistics than Michael Jordan. He has just dethroned a legend."[23] "It was great, a historical moment. It was really an incredible performance. I am very happy that I passed the baton to such a great athlete and such a great personality and role model. I always felt it could happen. I hoped it would be soon," Sergey Bubka, who was the first person to congratulate Lavillenie on his world record-breaking performance, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview shortly after Lavillenie had claimed the world record.[20][24]
On 9 March, the last day of the 2014 World Indoor Championships, the IAAF announced that it had ratified (certified) his world record jump.

2014 outdoor season

Lavillenie returned to competition in the Drake Relays track and field meeting held in Des Moines, Iowa at the end of April, where he won the pole vault event with a jump of 5.70 m.[25] On 18 May, he won the pole vault event at the Shanghai leg of the 2014 Diamond League, clearing 5.92 m on the first attempt. This 5.92 m clearance was a meeting record and the world-leading performance of the year. In that Shanghai meeting, he attempted to break his outdoor personal best of 6.02 m, but he failed to clear 6.03 m in all his three attempts.[26]

2016 Olympics in Rio

Lavillenie was the favorite to win the Olympic gold in pole vaulting, but a strong performance from the host country's

Thiago Braz da Silva left him with the silver medal. Lavillenie cleared 5.93 m with his third effort at the finals. This meant that each of the five other competing athletes had to equal or beat their personal best to stay in the competition. Only da Silva managed to do so. Lavillenie managed to clear the next height, 5.98 m, easily with his first attempt, but da Silva decided to skip 5.98 m and went on to 6.03 m. With a successful second attempt at 6.03 m, da Silva set a new Olympic Record. Lavillenie, having failed his first two attempts at 6.03 m, attempted 6.08 with his final jump but failed, knocking the bar off with his knee.[27] Lavillenie was booed by the crowd during the competition and the medal ceremony, causing him to break down in tears as da Silva attempted to calm the crowd and support Lavillenie.[28] Lavillenie compared the incident to Jesse Owens being booed at the Olympics in 1936, although he later apologized for the comment, saying it was made in the heat of the moment and he deeply regretted it.[29]

2020

As the

Katie Nageotte and Alysha Newman.[32]

Personal life

Lavillenie married his wife Anaïs Poumarat in 2018, following 11 years of dating.[33] Poumarat is also a pole vaulter.[34] They have a daughter, Iris, who was born in July 2017.[35]

Competition record

Year Competition Venue Position Notes
Representing France
2007 European U23 Championships
Debrecen, Hungary
 10th 5.30 m
2008 World Indoor Championships
Valencia, Spain
 13th (q) 5.55 m
2009 European Indoor Championships
Turin, Italy
 1st 5.81 m
World Championships Berlin, Germany 3rd 5.80 m
2010 World Indoor Championships
Doha, Qatar
 10th (q) 5.45 m
European Championships Barcelona, Spain 1st 5.85 m
Continental Cup Split, Croatia 2nd
5.90 m
1
2011 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 1st 6.03 m
World Championships
Daegu, South Korea
 3rd 5.85 m
2012 World Indoor Championships
Istanbul, Turkey
 1st 5.95 m
European Championships
Helsinki, Finland
 1st 5.97 m
Olympic Games London, England 1st 5.97 m
2013 European Indoor Championships
Gothenburg, Sweden
 1st 6.01 m
World Championships Moscow, Russia 2nd 5.89 m
2014 European Championships
Zürich, Switzerland
 1st 5.90 m
Continental Cup
Marrakech, Morocco
 1st
5.80 m
1
2015 European Indoor Championships
Prague, Czech Republic
 1st 6.04 m
World Championships Beijing, China 3rd 5.80 m
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, Oregon, United States 1st 6.02 m
European Championships Amsterdam, Netherlands 1st (q) 5.60 m2
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2nd 5.98 m
2017 World Championships London, England 3rd 5.89 m
2018 World Indoor Championships
Birmingham, United Kingdom
 1st 5.90 m
European Championships Berlin, Germany 3rd 5.95 m
2019 World Championships
Doha, Qatar
 15th (q) 5.60 m
2021 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan 8th 5.70 m
2022 World Championships Eugene, United States 5th 5.87 m
European Championships
Munich, Germany
 7th 5.65 m

1Representing Europe
2No mark in the final

Awards

See also

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