Dimitri Bascou

Dimitri Bascou
Dimitri Bascou at the 2015 European Championships
nation	France
birthday	20th July 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Schœlcher, France
size	1.81 cm
Career
discipline	Hurdles
Best performance	110 m hurdles: 13.12 s 60 m hurdles: 7.41 s
society	US Créteil
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Mediterranean Games 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 110 m hurdles  Indoor world championships bronze Portland 2016 60 m hurdles  European championships gold Amsterdam 2016 110 m hurdles  European Indoor Championships silver Prague 2015 60 m hurdles  Mediterranean Games silver Pescara 2009 110 m hurdles
last change: May 30, 2017

Dimitri Bascou (born July 20, 1987 in Schœlcher , Martinique ) is a French athlete who specializes in hurdles .

Athletic career

After he achieved his first successes in Martinique, he moved to Eaubonne in the north of France in 2004 for sporting reasons . In 2007 he moved to the Lagardère Paris Racing club and this was followed by his first successes. In 2008 he finished second at the national championships with a new personal best of 13.61 s. He was even able to win this title the following year and at the same time take silver at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara . Consequently, he was in the squad for the World Athletics Championships 2009 in Berlin . There he was able to set a new personal best (13.49 s), but was eliminated in the semi-finals.

In 2010 he was able to defend his title at the French championships and, in fourth place, missed a medal at the European championships by just 2 hundredths of a second (13.41 s, PB).

2016 was then Bascous' most successful year in sport to date. At a meeting in Berlin he set a new national record over 60 m hurdles (7.41 s). At the indoor world championships that followed in March, he reached third place. When he won the national championships, he set a new personal record of 13.05 s, which is not counted due to the excessive tailwind (2.1 s). Because of these achievements, he went to the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam as a favorite. He was able to confirm this role by winning the 110 meter hurdles (13.25 s).

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he achieved the bronze medal. This was the first French podium placement in this discipline since Guy Drut 1976. On November 30, 2016, he received the Knight's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite for winning a medal .

Web links

Commons : Dimitri Bascou  - collection of images

• Dimitri Bascou in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Dimitri Bascou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le Monde
2. ↑ Décret du 30 November 2016 portant promotion et nomination. In: legifrance.gouv.fr. November 30, 2016, accessed February 13, 2020 (French).