Jimmy Vicaut

Jimmy Vicaut

Vicaut at the 2013 French Championships
Personal information
Nationality	France
Born	(1992-02-27) 27 February 1992 Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport	Running
Event(s)	60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	100m outdoor: 9.86 (Paris 2015, Montreuil 2016) 200m outdoor: 20.30 (Paris 2013) 60m indoor: 6.48 (Gothenburg 2013)
Medal record Men's athletics Representing France Olympic Games 2012 London 4×100 m relay World Championships 2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay European Championships 2010 Barcelona 4×100 m relay 2012 Helsinki 100 m 2016 Amsterdam 4×100 m relay 2012 Helsinki 4×100 m relay 2016 Amsterdam 100 m European Indoor Championships 2013 Gothenburg 60 m World Junior Championships 2010 Moncton 100 m European Junior Championships 2011 Tallinn 100 m 2011 Tallinn 4×100 m relay

Jimmy Vicaut (born 27 February 1992 in Bondy, Paris) is a French sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. His personal best of 9.86 in the 100 m gives him the fastest time of any European born athlete.

Biography

Vicaut was born to an Ivorian mother and a French father. He began athletics at the age of ten years and has specialized in the sprint. He won the bronze medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, Canada and promptly travelled to Barcelona to help the French men's 4 x 100 metres relay team to the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships.

Vicaut's junior personal best over 100 m, 10.07 seconds, is the fourth fastest time ever run by a European junior, behind only Christophe Lemaitre (10.04), Adam Gemili (10.05) and Dwain Chambers (10.06).

At the French national championships in Albi on 29 July 2011, Vicaut finished second behind Christophe Lemaitre, tying his personal best of 10.07 sec. Lemaitre set a new French national record with 9.92 sec.

At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, Vicaut became only the second junior to ever run in a World Championship 100 m final, after Darrel Brown in 2003. Vicaut finished sixth with 10.27 sec, while his fellow countryman Lemaitre finished fourth with 10.19 sec.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Vicaut was part of France's 4×100 m relay team that claimed the Bronze medal.

On 13 July 2013, at the French national championships in Paris, Vicaut won the title in 9.95 sec.,a personal best.

At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Vicaut took part in three events—the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. He was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 100 and 200 metres events, while his relay team did not advance to the final from the heats.

In 2015, Vicaut equalled the European 100m record time of 9.86 that Portugal’s Francis Obikwelu had set almost 11 years before at the Olympic Games in Athens. That time also broke the French national record of 9.92 set by Lemaitre in 2011.

In June 2016, ahead of the Rio Summer Olympics, Vicaut equalled again his 9.86 time on the 100 metre dash at the Pro Athlé Tour meeting in Montreuil.

His younger brother, Willy, also an athlete, competes in the shot put.

Personal best

Distance	Time	venue
100 m (outdoor)	9.86 s	Paris (4 July 2015) Montreuil (7 June 2016)
200 m (outdoor)	20.30 s	Paris (6 July 2013)
60 m (indoor)	6.48 s	Gothenburg (2 March 2013) Birmingham (15 February 2014)

External links

• Jimmy Vicaut profile at IAAF
• FFA profile for Jimmy Vicaut
• France’s Vicaut shows off Moncton medal credentials
• Jimmy Vicaut at sports-reference
• Media related to Jimmy Vicaut at Wikimedia Commons

Records
Preceded by Francis Obikwelu	Men's 100 metres European Record Holder 4 July 2015 – present (shared with Francis Obikwelu)	Succeeded by Incumbent