Renaud Lavillenie

Renaud Lavillenie
Renaud Lavillenie at the 2016 World Indoor Championships
nation	France
birthday	18th September 1986 (age 33)
place of birth	Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire
size	177 cm
Weight	69 kg
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	6.05 m (open air) 6.16 m (hall)
society	Cognac AC
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 1 × 4 × Indoor world championships 3 × 0 × 0 × European championships 3 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold London 2012 5.97 m silver Rio de Janeiro 2016 5.98 m  World championships bronze Berlin 2009 5.80 m bronze Daegu 2011 5.85 m silver Moscow 2013 5.89 m bronze Beijing 2015 5.80 m bronze London 2017 5.89 m  Indoor world championships gold Istanbul 2012 5.95 m gold Portland 2016 6.02 m gold Birmingham 2018 5.90 m  European championships gold Barcelona 2010 5.85 m gold Helsinki 2012 5.97 m gold Zurich 2014 5.90 m bronze Berlin 2018 5.95 m  European Indoor Championships gold Turin 2009 5.81 m gold Paris 2011 6.03 m gold Gothenburg 2013 6.01 m gold Prague 2015 6.04 m
last change: August 12, 2018

Renaud Lavillenie ( [ʁə.no la.vi.lə.ni] or [ʁə.no la.vil.ni] ; born September 18, 1986 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire ) is a French pole vaulter and was skipped in the hall 6.16 m world record holder between 2014 and 2020. He is Olympic champion in 2012 and was the only athlete to win the overall ranking of the IAAF Diamond League for seven years in a row (from 2010 to 2016). His younger brother Valentin is also a pole vaulter.

biography

The son of a former pole vaulter and head of an equestrian center, he began his athletic career at the age of seven at the Cognac Athlétique Club (Cognac AC) . Like his father, Lavillenie also pursued vaulting in parallel to athletics . At the age of 15 he began systematic athletics training with Georges Martin. At the junior level, Lavillenie could not achieve outstanding results or medals in international competitions.

Lavillenie continued to compete for the Cognac AC among the elite . In 2006 he jumped the 5-meter mark for the first time with 5.25 m indoors and 5.22 m outdoors. The following year he was able to increase to 5.58 m indoors and 5.45 m outdoors, but only finished tenth at the U23 European Championships. In 2008 he took part in the World Indoor Championships in Valencia and was eliminated there as 13th in the qualification.

A year later he won the European Indoor Championships in Turin with 5.81 m . On June 14th, 2009 Lavillenie jumped 5.96m in Clermont-Ferrand to the top of the annual outdoor world best list. A week later, on June 21, 2009, he crossed 6.01 m in Leiria, Portugal, winning the competition at the European Cup for National Teams. At the same time, he improved Jean Galfione's French record by three centimeters. At the 2009 World Championships in Berlin , Lavillenie won the bronze medal with 5.80 m behind the Australian Steven Hooker and his compatriot Romain Mesnil . In 2010 Lavillenie traveled as the European best of the year to the European Championships in Barcelona , where he won the title with 5.85 m.

Even at the European Indoor Championships the following year he was unbeatable with 6.03 m. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu Lavillenie won the bronze medal with a height of 5.85 m. Renaud Lavillenie won his first world title at the World Indoor Championships in 2012 in Istanbul . He won with a jump of 5.95 m in front of the German Björn Otto (5.80 m) and the American Brad Walker (5.80 m).

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 Lavillenie was European champion with a jumped height of 5.97 m ahead of the two Germans Björn Otto (5.92 m) and Raphael Holzdeppe (5.77 m). A little more than a month later he won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London with 5.97 m, again ahead of Otto (5.91 m) and Holzdeppe (5.91 m).

On March 3, 2013, he was the third time European indoor pole vault champion at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, with a jumped height of 6.01 m. Even outdoors he impressed with consistently good heights such as the 5.95 m at the French championships. After jumping a new Diamond League record with 5.96 m in Monaco on July 19 , he improved this and his personal best on July 27 in London to 6.02 m. Although Lavillenie's six best heights of the year came, at the World Championships in Moscow he surprisingly had to admit defeat to Raphael Holzdeppe with 5.89 m, who won the gold medal at the same jumped height due to the lower number of failed attempts.

On February 15, 2014 Lavillenie crossed 6.16 m in Donetsk, Ukraine, beating Serhiy Bubka's 20-year-old indoor world record by one centimeter. He had set his world record at the same meeting and was now one of the first to congratulate him. In his subsequent first attempt over 6.21 m, Lavillenie was thrown back by his staff and pulled a tear wound on his left ankle that had to be sewn with twelve stitches. At the 2014 European Championships in Zurich , he also won his third consecutive European Championship title outdoors with a height of 5.90 m.

Although he was once again the clear favorite, Lavillenie could not win the world title at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing . He failed at 5.90 m and had to be content with the bronze medal. From 2010 to 2015 he won the overall rankings of the Diamond League seven times , making him the most successful athlete alongside the American Christian Taylor .

After a sovereign victory at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland , he failed three times at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam under difficult conditions at his starting height of 5.75 m, which was 15 centimeters higher than the victory height. In second place, Lavillenie was booed during the medal handover at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 . He had complained about the unfair audience during the competition, whose sympathy had been with the local hero and Olympic champion Thiago Braz da Silva .

At the 2017 World Championships in London , Lavillenie won the bronze medal in the pole vault final behind Sam Kendricks and Piotr Lisek .

At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , Lavillenie managed to defend his title with a height of 5.90 m.

In 2020, on May 3, during the Covid 19 pandemic , Lavillenie contested the long-distance competition he helped initiate called the Ultimate Garden Clash and shared the victory with Armand Duplantis . On June 11, he lost the Bislett Games in the Diamond League program, which was held as Impossible Games due to the pandemic, on his home course with 5.81 m to Duplantis, which competed in Oslo.

With a height of 1.76 m, his competition weight is 69 kg; Lavillenie is the smallest pole vaulter to date to jump over the 6-meter mark. (As of 2009) Overall, Lavillenie was the seventeenth pole vaulter who jumped the 6-meter mark, with Jean Galfione and Danny Ecker only succeeding in the hall.

Awards

• 2014: France's athlete and world athlete of the year
• 2014: Europe's athlete of the year
• 2014: World Athlete of the Year

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 .

Web links

Commons : Renaud Lavillenie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Renaud Lavillenie . In: Internationales Sportarchiv 27/2011 from July 5, 2011, supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 36/2012 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
2. ↑ Athletics - Lavillenie jumps pole world record - 6.16 m ( memento of March 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), in: eurosport.yahoo.com (accessed on February 15, 2014).
3. ↑ iaaf.org: Renaud Lavillenie sets pole vault world record of 6.16m in Donetsk , February 15, 2014
4. ↑ spox.com: Lavillenie injured in a world record , February 16, 2014
5. ↑ Rio 2016: Boo 2 - Lavillenie booed again by Olympic home crowd ( Memento from September 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Associated Press, August 17, 2016
6. ↑ Holzdeppes "Salto nullo" at Kendricks-Triumph , on sportschau.de, from August 8, 2017. Retrieved on August 14, 2017.
7. ↑ [1]
8. ↑ Pole Vault Men - Results , at diamondleague.com, June 11, 2020, accessed June 11, 2020
9. ↑ Athletics special of August 7, 2009, page 40