Lavillenie Clears World-Leading 6.00m in Rouen

Published by IAAF on January 24, 2015

Renaud Lavillenie, the 2014 World Athlete of the Year, posted a world-leading pole vault mark of 6.00m on home soil in the French city of Rouen on Saturday (24).

It was the eighth time in his career that the world record holder and London 2012 Olympic Games champion has cleared 6.00m or better, and his best performance since he sensationally set a world record of 6.16m in Donetsk last February.

In front of a packed audience in the Stade Sottevillais 76, Lavillenie cleared 6.00m on his third attempt before three failures at 6.10m for his sixth consecutive victory, his last defeat coming when he failed to clear a height at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Stockholm last August.

Lavillenie opened at 5.70m and, with the competition already won, then went over 5.86m, clearing both heights with his first attempt before asking for the bar to be raised to 6.00m.