Paris (AFP) – With traditional competition shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, athletics has begun experimenting with imaginative and unusual ways to ensure that, somehow, the show goes on. The Olympics and European Championships have been postponed and there no traditional meetings are scheduled until the Diamond League in Monaco…
French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie, the world record holder, said he wasn’t able to recover his composure after “stupid things” threw him off course in qualifying at the world athletics championships on Saturday. “Despite all my experience I wasn’t able to get out of it,” he said. “That’s the qualifications…
The 20-Year Wait – 6.16m For the past 20 years, the pole vault world has waited for a vaulter just as tall, as fast, and talented at Sergey Bubka. The pole vault community was convinced that a man larger and faster would make the difference between 6.15 or more.…
The top two French athletes, Teddy Tamgho and Renaud Lavillenie, spoke to the press ahead of their final IAAF Diamond League appearance of 2013 at the Belgacom Memorial Van Damme. This will be Tamgho’s first Triple Jump competition since the IAAF World Championships in Moscow where he went to third…
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…
France’s Renaud Lavillenie reacts during the men’s pole vault final at the 2012 European Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki. Lavillenie fired out a broadside at Olympic pole vault contenders by defending his European title on Sunday with a soaring best of 5.97 metres, a height that cemented…
Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie will be a huge favourite to defend his European title in Helsinki. The 2012 World indoor champion has looked virtually unbeatable this year. However German pole vaulter Malte Mohr threw down the gauntlet to Lavillenie when he bettered the Frenchman’s world leading mark of 5.90m with a…
