Teddy Tamgho and Renaud Lavillenie dominate at the Meeting International d’Athletisme de Montreuil
At the commencement of the third edition of the Meeting International d’ Athletisme de Montreuil, they were the hosts, the French athletes, who stole major part of the limelight by emerging in their respective fields.
The first one to outdo his rivals was the third best triple jumper ever, Teddy Tamgho, the formidable athlete who had marked 17.98m at last year’s Adidas Grand Prix contest. Pole vaulter, Renaud Lavillenie, the gold medallist of the European Indoor Championships
2009, also prevailed among the grappling competitors.
The first stop of France’s Pro Athle’ Tour also witnessed other nationals getting rid of their local counterparts. For instance, in the 100m run, the ever dominating Yohan Blake, who is the World Junior bronze medallist and also boasts of a national junior
record in the 100m contest, outdid France’s Christophe Lemaitre, the sprinter who specialises in 100m and 200m runs. For bagging the title, Blake clocked 9.95 seconds in response to Lemaitre’s effort of 9.96 seconds.
While entering the event, Tamgho had clear intentions of displaying his performance before the local audience who had been waiting to see him dominate the field all over again, since his performance in June, last year. The year 2010 certainly had been a
memorable one for the young athlete, who is going to celebrate his 22nd birthday next week. Beside his world indoor record in New York, he had marked his success with a 17.63m effort in the event.
According to news, he is going to have a somewhat similar schedule this year. Keeping in mind his previous performance at the Meeting International d’ Athletisme de Montreuil, it seems that the emphatic jumper is already ahead of plans for marking another
major success of his career.
Tamgho, who believes in raising the bar of his performance regularly, while commenting upon his current plans for the events ahead, said, “I fell that I’m less in shape than last year, but stronger, I have some details to fix, I know I can jump very far
but each time, there’s a small thing missing. I need to memorize great performance in order to duplicate them at will.”
Following the formidable French triple jumper, the only athlete who could cross the 17m barrier was Cuba’s 25-year-old jumper, Alexis Copello, who boasts of a Personal Best of 17.65m. Displaying his performance at Montreuil, Copello marked a stride of 17.01m.
Though the competition between him and Tamgho was rather hard, the local athlete emerged as the winner and claimed the top position on the podium.
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