Fabrice Lapierre

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Fabrice Lapierre (born October 17, 1983 in Réduit, Moka District , Mauritius ) is an Australian athlete . His most successful discipline is the long jump . At a height of 1.79 m, his competition weight is 69 kg.

Life

Fabrice Lapierre was born in Mauritius, but his parents moved to Australia when he was two years old. He started athletics at the age of eight. He grew up in Western Australia and later went to a sports-oriented high school in Blacktown City , near Sydney . Since 2003 he has been studying sports science and business management at Texas A&M University in College Station on a scholarship . He is trained by Dan Pfaff in Phoenix, Arizona .

successes

Internationally, he first attracted attention at the Junior World Championships in 2002 in Kingston , Jamaica: With 7.74 m, he came second in the long jump competition. In 2005 he was NCAA champion in Austin , Texas with a 7.83 m . At the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006 he was third with 8.10 m. In 2006 he also won the long jump at the Australian Championships. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , he missed qualifying for the final by five centimeters with 7.90 m. A month later he won the 6th IAAF / Bank World Athletics Final in Stuttgart with 8.14 m . He won the Australian Long Jump Championship again in 2009 with 8.29 m, in the same year he won the IAAF / Bank World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki with 8.33 m ahead of Dwight Phillips . His greatest success is winning the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha with 8.17 m ahead of Godfrey Khotso Mokoena . In 2010 he defended his Australian long jump title in Perth with a jump of 8.78 m, but with a too strong tailwind (3.1 m / s). He won the first long jump competition of the Diamond League in 2010 at the Golden Grand Prix in the Shanghai Stadium with 8.30 m in calm ahead of Dwight Philipps. With the same distance he won the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi before Greg Rutherford . At the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, he was second behind Greg Rutherford with 8.24 m. He also won a silver medal with 8.25 m at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland (Oregon) . In 2016 he also won the Diamond Race of the Diamond League.

His personal best is 8.40 m, which he jumped in Nuoro on July 14, 2010 with a 0.5 m / s tailwind. His best performance in the 100-meter run is 10.56 s, which he ran on July 16, 2002 in Kingston, in the 200-meter run at 21.40 s on December 9, 2000 in Adelaide . His personal best indoor 60-meter run was 6.89 m / s from the Big 12 on February 24, 2006 in Lincoln, Nebraska . In the long jump he holds the oceanic indoor record. He had this first with 8.19 m, which he jumped in the qualification of the World Indoor Championships in 2010. He improved the record at the 2016 World Indoor Championships to 8.25 m.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview in Spikes Magazine ( Memento from January 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Fabrice Lapierre on the website of the Commonwealth Games 2018 (English)
  3. ↑ Back in the Groove . Article from January 8, 2016 on spikes.iaaf.org
  4. ↑ Leaping Lapierre steals the show in Perth on the website of the National Australian Athletics Association Athletics Australia from April 18, 2010 ( Memento from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  5. ↑ Results archive of the Shanghai Meetings ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lapierre, Fabrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian long jumper
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Réduit, Moka (district) , Mauritius