Gabriel Bordier narrowly achieved the minima for the 20 km walk for the World Championships in Budapest and the Olympic Games in Paris, with a time of 1h20’09” in La Coruña on Saturday. Also to remember: Agathe Guillemot’s shattered personal record over 1500m, Margot Chevrier’s rise in pole vault, and Rémi Conroy’s progress in the javelin.
Marche
World and Olympic minima for Bordier
Eighty minutes of effort and a destiny, Olympic and worldwide, that tips over on the right side. We imagine Gabriel Bordier in his fight against the clock in the last meters of the 20 km of the Grand Prix of Corunna on Saturday. The US Saint-Berthevin walker sees the numbers go by and knows that, in his quest for the minimums for the Worlds and the Olympic Games, both set at 1:20:10, it will be decided to the nearest second . He sprints and it’s a relief: eighth in 1h20’09” of a very high level race, won by the Brazilian Caio Bonfim in 1h18’29”, the medical student fell one second below the requested performance, which, in a wink of fate, corresponded exactly to his personal best. The pupil of Gérard Lelièvre is the second Frenchman to overcome the minima over the distance this year, after Aurélien Quinion (1h19’97” during the French championships in March). Less success for Kevin Campion (Stade Dieppois), who was hoping for much better than his 35th place in 1h25’48”.
middle distance
Guillemot is unstoppable
The beautiful story continues. A defector from the combined events, where she shone in the youth categories with international selections, Agathe Guillemot had already made an express transition over middle-distance distances, notably with a bronze medal in the 800m at the last France Elite. The athlete from Haute Bretagne Athlétisme passed a new milestone on Sunday in Hengelo (Netherlands), ranking 12th in 4’05”70 in a 1500m won by Sifan Hassan (3’58”12), who played at home. The record of the Breton, which dated last Wednesday in Montreuil in 4’09”57, is already shattered, thanks to an effort of great regularity.
Over the same distance but for men, Jimmy Gressier finished 8th in 3’38”94 of a race which only got carried away on the last lap, with the victory of the Irishman Andrew Coscoran (3’37”97). The opportunity to identify the work at the level of the terminal velocity that he still has to do. Note, among the juniors, the 1’47”18 of the junior Thomas Marques de Andrade (Stade Bordelais) in Poitiers on Sunday, which climbs to 4th place in the all-weather record, a second pile from the French record of Pierre-Ambroise Bosse.
Friday, Alice Finot had improved its own French record in the 3000m steeplechase at the Rome Diamond League meeting, while the next day the French men’s team won bronze at the European Cup in the 10,000m in Pacé.
Jumps
Chevrier passes the second
In the wake of a smooth comeback during the second round of the Interclubs, Margot Chevrier (Nice CAA) kicked into high gear this Sunday at the Athlé Urban X’périence in Salon-de-Provence. After clearing 4.45m easily on the first attempt, she tamed the bar placed at 4.55m on her second attempt, to set the best national performance of the season. She then tried unsuccessfully at the height of 4.71 m. In the same contest, Albane Dordain (CA Balma) cleared 4.45m, while Marie-julie Bonnin (Stade Bordelais) stopped at 4.35 m. On the side of Noisy-le-Grand, their comrade Ninon Chapel (EA Cergy-Pontoise) managed 4.40m on the third try.
In men, it is Ethan Cormont who seized the best French performance of the season, thanks to his 5.72 m achieved in Chorzow (Poland), this Sunday. The ASA Maisons-Alfort pole vaulter took fourth place in the competition. Thibaut Collet (EA Grenoble 38) was during this time in Hengelo (Netherlands), where he put a suitcase at 5.61 m, ranking sixth in a meeting which saw Mondo Duplantis cross 6.11 m. Finally, Anthony Ammirati (EA Pays de Fayence) passed 5.50m in Salon-de-Provence for its first summer competition in 2023.
Jules Pommery (Entente Athlé 58) is the long jumper who had the best weekend, as he fell to 7.81m (-0.8) in Hengelo on Sunday, which gave him a seventh place in Holland. On his side, Augustin Bey (Athlétisme Sarrebourg Moselle) jumped to 7.71 m (+1.7) in Antony.
Lancers
Conroy approaches 80m
The Alsatians shone at home during the themed meeting in Colmar. Foremost among them, Remi Conroy won the palm by putting a slap of more than two meters to his record on his fifth try, measured at 78.73 m. The member of the Entente Haute Alsace has beaten his club comrade Teuraiterai Tupaiawhose best throw was measured at 75.10 m, and Lenny Brisseault (Nice CAA, 72.42m). In the same place, hope Jade Maraval (Montbéliard Belfort Athlétisme) continued its march forward, bringing its benchmark to 56.48 m. Finally, the discobolus Tom Reux (AC Brétilien) sent his machine to 60.59 m in Angoulême.
Sprint-hurdles
Andant and the hurdlers at the party
Exceptionally in the colors of the Principality of Monaco during the Games of the Small States of Europe, in Malta, the international tricolor Teo Andant beat his personal best in the 400m in 45”81 and won gold. The pupil of Marc Vecchio is already the fourth tricolor to drop below the 46” mark this year.
A Hengelo, Wilfried Happio completed his 400m hurdles in 49”40. The Lille Métropole Athlétisme licensee finished at the foot of the podium, in a race dominated by the American C. J. Allen (48”24). Over the same distance, the youngest Meta Tumba continues to impress. After breaking the French U18 record during the second round of Interclubs, she confirmed this weekend, at home, at the Angoulême meeting. She finished in 57”66, 11 hundredths from her best national mark.
Great performance also from Mahorais Raphael Mohamed. Third best French performer of the year behind Belocian and Kwaou-Mathey, the Racing Club de Mamoudzou licensee pulled out all the stops in the series at the Poitiers meeting, breaking a personal best in 13”49. Also note the 13”58 d’Aurel Manga (US Créteil; +0.4) and the 13”59 of Romain Lecour (Stade Sottevillais 76; +1.6), a personal best for the last named.
Finally, Mouhamadou Fall (Entente Franconville Cesame Val d’Oise) competed in the 95 zone championships, during which he logically flew over the debates with his 10”12 twice over 100 m (+0.7 in series and -0.2 in final) and his 20”64 (+1.0) over 200 m.
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