Renaud Lavillenie
Renaud Lavillenie at the European Championships 2012
Renaud Lavillenie ( [ ʁə.no la.vi.lə.ni ]; born September 18, 1986 in Barbezieux -Saint -Hilaire ) is a French pole vaulter and skipped 6.16 m current world record holder.
Biography
The son of a former pole- jumper and manager of an equestrian center started his footballing career at the age of seven years at the club Athlétique Cognac (Cognac AC). Parallel to the Athletics went Lavillenie as his father also the vaulting after. The age of 15 he began the systematic athletics training at George Martin. Outstanding victories and medals could not achieve Lavillenie at youth level.
Lavillenie starts continue for the Cognac AC. In 2006, he jumped 5.25 m in the hall and 5.22 m in the open for the first time the five meter mark. The following year, he could indeed increase to 5.58 m in the hall and 5.45 m outdoors, but finished at the U23 European Championships only tenth. In 2008 he took part in the World Indoor Championships in Valencia and retired from there as 13 in qualifying.
A year later he won with 5.81 m at the European Indoor Championships in Turin. On June 14, 2009 Lavillenie jumped 5.96 m in Clermont- Ferrand to the top of the outdoor world annual leaderboard. A week later, on 21 June 2009 he crossed in Leiria, Portugal, 6.01 m and won the competition in the European Cup for national teams. He also improved the record of French Jean Galfione by three centimeters. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin Lavillenie won the bronze medal with 5.80 meters behind the Australian Steven Hooker and his compatriot Romain Mesnil. 2010 Lavillenie traveled as a European Best years for the European Championships in Barcelona, where he won the title with 5.85 meters.
At the World Athletics Championships 2011 in Daegu Lavillenie won the bronze medal with a height of 5.85 m. Renaud Lavillenie won his first world title at the Athletics World Indoor Athletics Championships 2012 in Istanbul. He won with skipped 5.95 m in front of Björn Otto ( GER - 5,80 m ) and Brad Walker (USA - 5.80 m).
The European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki was Lavillenie European champion with a height of 5.97 m skipped before the two German Björn Otto (5.92 m) and Raphael wood Deppe ( 5.77 m). Just over a month later, he won at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London with 5.97 m the gold medal, again in front of Otto ( 5.91 m) and wood Deppe ( 5.91 m).
On March 3, 2013, was at the Indoor Athletics Championships 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden with a height of 6.01 m skipped the third time European Indoor champion in the pole vault. Even outdoors, he convinced with consistently good as the heights 5,95 m at the French Championships. After 5.96 m has a new Diamond League record was cracked on 19 July in Monaco, he corrected this and also his personal best on 27 July in London further to 6.02 m. Thus, although came the six best heights of the Year by Lavillenie, at the World Championships but he had to settle for 5.89 m surprisingly Raphael Holzdeppe defeated, the result of the lower number of failed attempts, won the gold medal at the same height skipped.
On February 15, 2014 Lavillenie crossed the Ukrainian Donetsk 6.16 m, beating a 20 -year-old world indoor record of Serhiy Bubka by one centimeter. This had then set his world record at the same meeting and was now as one of the first to congratulate the Present. In his subsequent first attempt 6,21 m Lavillenie was thrown back from his staff and pulled a laceration to the left ankle, which had to be sewn with twelve stitches.
At a height of 1.76 m his competition weight is 69 kg; Lavillenie is so far the smallest pole vaulter, who skipped the six- meter mark. (2009) Overall, Lavillenie the seventeenth pole vaulter, who skipped the six- meter mark, and this Jean Galfione and Danny Ecker was only in the hall.