Fabrice Lapierre
Fabrice Lapierre ( born October 17, 1983 in Réduit, District of Moka, Mauritius ) is an Australian athlete. His most successful discipline is the long jump. At a height of 1.79 m his competition weight is 62 to 66 kg.
Life
Fabrice Lapierre was born in Mauritius, the parents moved to Australia but, when he was two years old. He grew up in Western Australia and went on a sport -oriented high school in Blacktown City near Sydney later. Since 2003, he studied with scholarship Sport Science and Business Management from Texas A & M University in College Station.
Achievements
Internationally, he made for the first time attracted attention at the Junior World Championships in 2002 in Kingston, Jamaica: With 7.74 m, it was in the long jump competition second. He was 7.83 meters in Austin, Texas NCAA champion in 2005. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, he was third with 8.10 m. In 2006 he also won the long jump at the Australian Championships. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 he missed with 7.90 m of qualifying for the finals by five centimeters. A month later he won with 8.14 m the 6th IAAF / Bank World Athletics Final in Stuttgart. The Australian long jump championship he won with 8.29 m again in 2009, the same year he won the IAAF / Bank World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki with 8.33 m in front of Dwight Phillips. His greatest achievement is the profit at the World Indoor Championships in Doha in 2010 to 8.17 m in front of Godfrey Mokoena Khotso. In 2010 he defended his Australian Weisprungtitel in Perth with a jump of 8.78 m, but with a too strong tailwind ( 3.1 m / s). The first long jump competition of the IAAF Diamond League in 2010, he won the Golden Grand Prix in Shanghai Stadium with 8.30 m in still air in front of Dwight Phillips. With the same length, he won the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi before Greg Rutherford.
His personal best is 8.40 meters, which he on July 14, 2010 / s tailwind jumped in Nuoro at 0.5 m. His best performance in the 100 - meter dash is 10.56 s, which he ran in Kingston on 16 July 2002, in the 200 - meter race in 21.40 s on 9 December 2000, Adelaide. His personal Hallenbestleistung in the 60 - yard dash is 6.89 m / s from the Big 12 on 24 February 2006 in Lincoln, Nebraska. In the long jump he holds with 8,19 m, he jumped into the qualifications of the World Indoor Championships in 2010, the oceanic indoor record.