2018 French Athletics Championships Explained

2018 French Athletics Championships
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Events:	38
Dates:	6–8 July
Next:	2019

The 2018 French Athletics Championships was the 130th edition of the national championship in outdoor track and field for France. It was held on 6–8 July at Stadium Municipal d'Albi in Albi. It was the third time that the city hosted the competition, following previous editions in 2008 and 2011. A total of 38 events (divided evenly between the sexes) were contested over the three-day competition.

Carolle Zahi took a women's sprint double in the 100 metres and 200 metres. Ninon Guillon-Romarin broke the French record for the women's pole vault with a height of . On the men's side, Renaud Lavillenie won his eighth outdoor pole vault national title. Several non-French national athletes competed as guests and their performances were excluded for the purposes of the French Championships.^[1]

Medal summary

Men

100 metres^[2]		10.18	Méba-Mickaël Zézé	10.18	Mouhamadou Fall	10.22
200 metres	Méba-Mickaël Zézé	20.33	Jeffrey John	20.56	Ilies Tano	20.76
400 metres^[3]	Christopher Naliali	46.23		46.41	Mame-Ibra Anne	46.63
800 metres^[4]		1:46.66	Aymeric Lusine	1:47.91	Gabriel Tual	1:48.32
1500 metres^[5]	Alexis Miellet	3:43.77		3:44.86	Alexandre Saddedine	3:45.16
5000 metres^[6]	Florian Carvalho	13:41.91	Arsène Guillorel	13:50.47		13:56.12
110 m hurdles	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde	13.33	Garfield Darien	13.35	Simon Krauss	13.68
400 m hurdles	Ludvy Vaillant	49.04	Muhamad Kounta	49.41	Victor Coroller	49.88
3000 m s'chase^[7]	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	8:33.59	Djilali Bedrani	8:35.27		8:35.71
5000 m walk	Gabriel Bordier	19:38.19	Keny Guinaudeau	20:41.88	Antonin Boyez	21:24.17
High jump^[8]		2.19 m	Quentin Aboukir	2.16 m	Clément Gicquel	2.16 m
Pole vault	Renaud Lavillenie	5.80 m	Axel Chapelle	5.50 m	Baptiste Boirie	5.50 m
Long jump	Kafétien Gomis	8.13 m	Guillaume Victorin	8.00 m	Jean-Pierre Bertrand	7.96 m
Triple jump^[9]	Harold Correa	17.05 m	Kevin Luron	16.97 m		16.74 m
Shot put	Frédéric Dagée	20.01 m	Willy Vicaut	18.16 m	Antoine Duponchel	17.70 m
Discus throw	Lolassonn Djouhan	59.84 m	Jordan Guehaseim	55.22 m	Benoît Lallican	52.08 m
Hammer throw	Quentin Bigot	74.23 m	Yann Chaussinand	67.46 m	Frédérick Pouzy	66.91 m
Javelin throw^[10]		73.86 m		69.40 m	Victor Vernede	69.24 m
Decathlon	Ruben Gado	8126 pts	Axel Hubert	7683 pts	Damien Berthenet	7573 pts

Women

100 metres	Carolle Zahi	11.01	Orlann Ombissa-Dzangue	11.06	Orphée Néola	11.15
200 metres	Carolle Zahi	22.92	Amandine Brossier	23.13	Jennifer Galais	23.27
400 metres	Floria Gueï	51.52	Elea-Mariama Diarra	52.27	Déborah Sananes	52.37
800 metres	Rénelle Lamote	2:00.37	Cynthia Anaïs	2:00.60	Claudia Sanders	2:01.07
1500 metres	Élodie Normand	4:16.20	Lucie Lerebourg	4:20.00	Alice Finot	4:23.50
5000 metres^[11]		16:02.04		16:06.42		16:15.39
100 m hurdles	Awa Sene	13.04	Laura Valette	13.10	Rosvitha Okou	13.20
400 m hurdles^[12]	Aurélie Chaboudez	56.62		56.95	Maëva Contion	57.48
3000 m s'chase		9:48.21	Emma Oudiou	9:59.22	Marie Bouchard	10:10.63
5000 m walk	Clémence Beretta	22:05.25	Émilie Menuet	22:36.24	Marine Quennehen	22:49.97
High jump	Prisca Duvernay	1.85 m	Solène Gicquel	1.83 m	Laura Salin-Eyike	1.81 m
Pole vault	Ninon Guillon-Romarin	4.73 m	Marion Lotout	4.45 m	Marion Buisson	4.40 m
Long jump^[13]	Rougui Sow	6.49 m		6.32 m		6.28 m
Triple jump	Jeanine Assani Issouf	14.43 m	Yanis David	14.14 m	Rouguy Diallo	13.97 m
Shot put	Jessica Cérival	16.70 m	Caroline Métayer	16.29 m	Rose Sharon Pierre Louis	15.68 m
Discus throw	Pauline Pousse	58.09 m	Mélanie Pingeon	55.61 m	Marie-Francine Mvoto Abeng	54.79 m
Hammer throw	Alexandra Tavernier	73.72 m	Audrey Ciofani	68.57 m	Camille Sainte-Luce	67.48 m
Javelin throw	Alexie Alaïs	59.54 m	Evelina Mendes	55.14 m	Mathilde Andraud	53.74 m
Heptathlon	Esther Turpin	6100 pts	Diane Marie-Hardy	6015 pts	Cassandre Aguessy	5837 pts

References

Results

• Les Championnats de France 2018 sur le site de la Fédération française d'athlétisme

Notes and References

1. Guillon, Quentin (2018-07-08). Lavillenie takes eighth pole vault title while Guillon-Romarin breaks national record at French Championships. IAAF. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
2. Two guest athletes were fastest in the men's 100 m Ivorian Arthur Cissé (10.04) and Iranian Hassan Taftian (10.09)
3. Congolese athlete Gilles-Anthony Afoumba placed second in the men's 400 m
4. Kenyan Sammy Kirongo (1:46.21) won the men's 800 m as a guest runner
5. Kenyan Sammy Kirongo and Moroccan Rabii Doukkana placed second and third in the men's 1500 m
6. Morocco's Azeddine Habz placed third in the men's 5000 m
7. [Hicham Sigueni]
8. Kenya's Matthew Sawe (2.22 m) won the men's high jump
9. Burkinabé Hugues Fabrice Zango (16.88 m) came third in the men's triple jump
10. [Albert Reynolds (athlete)|Albert Reynolds]
11. Kenya's Nelly Ngeiywo won the women's 5000 m in 15:37.17
12. [Portia Bing]
13. Saint Lucia's Sandisha Antoine was runner-up in the women's long jump, and Congo's Marie Mbuya Mala was fourth