Renaud Lavillenie

Renaud Lavillenie is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie was a gold medalist at the 2012 Olympics in London and a silver medalist at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Moreover, he has won three World Indoor Championships gold medals (record), three European Championships gold medals and four European Indoor Championships gold medals.

Early Life of Renaud Lavillenie

Renaud Lavillenie was born to father Gilles Lavillenie who was also a pole vaulter and mother Colette Dauge. Renaud has a younger brother named Valentin Laveillenie who himself is a pole vaulter and has won the gold medal at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie, Nice, France.

Laveillenie got married to wife Anaïs Poumarat who herself is a pole vaulter in 2018 after dating her for eleven years. The couple in 2017 was blessed with a daughter named Iris.

Major Achievements

Renaud made his debut in 2003, at the age of 17 in the pole vault competition. Lavillenie’s in 2008 made his outdoor personal best (5.65 m.) on 27 June in Villeneuve-d’Arcq and indoor personal best (5.81 m.) on 5 December in Aulnay-sous-Bois. In 2009, Renaud (6.01 m) broke Jean Galfone’s (5.98 m) ten year old French national outdoor pole vault record and in 2011 he (6.03 m) also broke the twelve year old French national indoor pole vault of Jean Galfone’s (6.00 m).

Renaud won the 2012 Olympic Games (5.97 m) and World Indoor Championships (5.95 m) gold medals for the first time. Lavillenie in 2014 cleared the 6.08 m at the Pedro’s Cup indoors meeting in Bydgoszcz, Poland in the pole vault event and recorded the second highest personal best indoor after Sergey Bubka’s 6.15 m indoor world record set in Donetsk in 1993.

Honors and Achievements

• Two times Silver medalist in the years 2010 and 2018 and one gold medal in the year 2014 at IAAF Continental Cup.
• Four gold medals in the year 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 at the European Athletics Indoor Championships.
• Three gold medals in the years 2010, 2012 and 2014 along with bronze medal in the year 2018 at the European Athletics Championships.
• Three gold medals in the years 2012, 2016 and 2018 at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
• One silver medal in the year 2013 and four times bronze medal in the years 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017 at the World Athletics Championships.

Awards

Renaud was awarded with French Legion of Honor on 18th April 2014.
Renaud Lavillenie in 2014 was conferred with –

• IAAF Men's World Athlete of the Year
• Men's Track & Field Athlete of the Year
• Men's European Athlete of the Year
• L'Équipe Champion of Champions (International)
• L'Équipe Champion of Champions (France)