Renaud Lavillenie appears to have overcome a mid-season wobble and is hitting the heights just in time for his bid to complete a collection of pole vault titles at the championships. The high-flying Frenchman holds the world record after clearing 6.16 metres last year and victory in China would add…
PRAGUE — Renaud Lavillenie proved his class again by winning a fourth straight pole vault title at the European Indoor Championships on Saturday. The Frenchman vaulted 5.75 and 5.90 meters to leave behind the field. He cleared a year-best 6.04 at his second attempt for the championship record. Then he tried…
When you break a World Record as legendary as the one that Sergey Bubka held in the pole vault for more than 20 years, your chances for AOY status are greatly enhanced. France’s Renaud Lavillenie parlayed just such a scenario into a commanding win in our 2014 men’s voting, receiving…
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Renaund Lavillenie, the men’s 2012 Olympic gold medalist from France, and Yarisley Silva, the women’s 2012 Olympic silver medalist from Cuba, won the sixth annual Drake Relays Pole Vault at the Mall presented by Hy-Vee on Wednesday (April 23) at the Jordan Town Creek Center. A…
(CNN) — It was a record some thought would never be broken: Sergey Bubka’s mark in the pole vault. But Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie — with Bubka cheering him on — did the almost unthinkable by bettering Bubka in the latter’s hometown of Donetsk in Ukraine. Lavillenie cleared a height of…
Having failed to win the one global title he did not hold, Renaud Lavillenie could have eased his way down to an unspectacular finale to his summer following his disappointment in Moscow. Not a chance of it. As he is ready to show this weekend, Lavillenie is bowing out with…
There is nothing unusual about the name Lavillenie being at the top of the results of an international pole vault competition but normally it is preceded by Renaud. But on Monday evening at the 2nd Gugl Games in Linz, it was his brother Valentin who had the honour as rain…
MOSCOW — French pole vault star Renaud Lavillenie has vowed not to rest on his laurels as he aims to add the world title to his Olympic pole vaulting crown when the world championships start on Saturday. Fresh from vaulting a world-leading 6.02 metres in the London Diamond League meet…
Renaud Lavillenie, arguably the best Pole Vaulter in the World has confirmed his participation at the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme. The Frenchman is actually the only athlete capable of jumps of 6 meter and beyond. On Sep. 6th the spectators in the King Baudouin stadium will have the privilege to…
