Australian long jumper (born 1983)
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 Mike Powell 's 8.99 in Sestriere in 1992.
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 .
Achievement s
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
Olympic Games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
10th
Long jump
7.87 m
2017
World Championships
London , United Kingdom
11th
Long jump
7.93 m
2018
Commonwealth Games
Gold Coast , Australia
12th
Long jump
7.56 m
Coaching career
Lapierre currently coaches in the Huntington Beach , CA, area with the private coaching service CoachUp .[ 5]
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