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On August 31, 2022, he broke the French junior pole vault record for the third time in Sankt-Wendel with a jump of 5.81m. He became the second performer in the history of the category behind Armand Duplantis, who vaulted 6.05m in 2018. [citation needed] Ammirati qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics; however
August 4, 2024 at 6:29 PM. The latest social media sensation coming out of the Paris Olympics is a French pole vaulter who experienced a eye-grabbing, NSFW mishap during a qualifying event. In the ...
French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati’s pursuit of Olympic gold ended on Saturday, August 3 — but he’s blessed with quite the consolation prize. The 21-year-old Olympian went viral after he ...
Renaud Lavillenie (French pronunciation: [ʁə.no la.vi.lə.ni] or [ʁə.no la.vil.ni]; born 18 September 1986) is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London and the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. In addition to his Olympic success, he has won three World Indoor Championships gold medals ...
The pole vault at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's pole vault has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's event is one of the latest additions to the programme, first being contested at the 2000 ...
The French pole vaulter went viral on Aug. 3 after a video of one of his pole vault attempts from the Paris Olympics made it appear like he knocked down the crossbar with his "bulge."
Lavillenie, now 37, is 5-foot10, while Ammirati is listed at 5-foot11. The average height of the pole vaulters competing in Paris was 6-foot1, according to NBC Olympics. In fact, Ammirati is such ...
Quinon acted as an advisor to the French pole vaulter Romain Mesnil in 2004, an experience which Quinon deemed as a "failure" when his protégé failed to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games pole vault final in Athens. [2] Quinon did abstract painting during the last five years of his life, starting from 2006. He started painting after a meeting ...