Fabrice Lapierre

Fabrice Lapierre
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Australia
World Championships
2015 Beijing Long jump
World Indoor Championships
2010 Doha Long jump
2016 Portland Long jump
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi Long jump
2006 Melbourne Long jump

Fabrice Lapierre (born 17 October 1983 in Réduit, Mauritius) is a Mauritian-born Australian long jumper.

Lapierre placed 4th at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, behind another Australian, Mitchell Watt, who took the bronze.[1] At the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, Lapierre won the gold medal with a jump of 8.17 metres, beating both Watt and the defending champion Godfrey Mokoena of South Africa.[2]

His personal best jump is 8.40 metres, achieved on 14 July 2010 in Nuoro. Prior to this, his lifetime best was 8.35 metres, achieved on 4 July 2009 in Madrid. He jumped 8.57 metres at the same competition, but there was too much wind (+3.6 metres per second).[3]

On April 18, 2010, at the Australian Athletics Championship in Perth, Lapierre grabbed the national title with a last-round jump of 8.78, again with an illegal tailwind of +3.1 metres per second.[4] This was the longest jump in the world under any conditions since Iván Pedroso's 8.96 in Sestriere in 1995.

Lapierre competed for Texas A&M University in college, and was the NCAA long jump champion at the 2005 NCAA Outdoor National Track and Field Championships.

In 2011, Lapierre competed in the third season of the Channel Seven television series Australia's Greatest Athlete.

Achievements

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Australia
2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 14th (qf) 100m 10.48 w (wind: +3.9 m/s)
2nd Long jump 7.74 m (wind: -0.8 m/s)
10th (h) 4 × 100 m relay 40.51
2006 Commonwealth Games Melbourne, Australia 3rd Long jump 8.10 m
World Cup Athens, Greece 8th Long jump 7.58 m
2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China 16th (q) Long jump 7.90 m
World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 1st Long jump 8.14 m
2009 World Championships Berlin, Germany 4th Long jump 8.21 m
World Athletics Final Thessaloníki, Greece 1st Long jump 8.33 m w
2010 World Indoor Championships Doha, Qatar 1st Long jump 8.17 m
Continental Cup Split, Croatia 7th Long jump 7.70 m
Commonwealth Games Delhi, India 1st Long jump 8.30 m
2011 World Championships Daegu, Korea 21st (q) Long jump 7.89 m
2013 World Championships Moscow, Russia — Long jump NM
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 14th (q) Long jump 7.76 m
Commonwealth Games Glasgow, Scotland 4th Long jump 8.00 m
2015 World Championships Beijing, China 2nd Long jump 8.24 m
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 2nd Long jump 8.25 m

References

  1. ↑ Landells, Steve (2009-08-22). "Event Report - Men's Long Jump - Final". IAAF. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
  2. ↑ Landells, Steve (2010-03-13). "EVENT REPORT - MEN's Long Jump Final". IAAF. Retrieved 2010-04-19.
  3. ↑ http://www.iaaf.org/gp09/results/eventcode=4188/sex=M/discCode=LJ/result.html#MLJ
  4. ↑ "Leaping Lapierre steals the show in Perth". Athletics Australia. 2010-04-18. Retrieved 2010-04-19.

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