Jules Pommery
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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 January 2001 Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Jules Pommery (born 22 January 2001) is a French athlete who competes in the long jump. He was a bronze medalist at the 2022 European Athletics Championships.
Career
Pommery competed at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden. He won the long jump with a personal best 7.83m.[1]
He won the long jump title at the 2022 French Athletics Championships, with a jump of 7.86 metres.[2] At the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, in August 2022, Pommery initially was given fourth place on count-back after a jump of 8.06m but following a protest from the French Federation a previous jump by British jumper and silver medalist Jacob Fincham-Dukes was ruled illegal and relegated him to fifth place and promoted Pommery to third after the event.[3] It was the second time Pommery had ever leapt over 8 metres after previously setting a personal best of 8.17m in May, 2022 in Athens, Greece, a mark that was a new French U23 record.[4][5]
He retained his long jump title at the 2023 French Athletics Championships in Albi, with a jump of 8.12 metres.[6] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August 2023, but recorded no mark in qualifying and did not proceed to the final.[7] He competed in the long jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, jumping 7.23 metres and not qualifying for the final.[8]
He competed in the long jump at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, where he jumped 7.72 metres but did not progress to the final.[9] He finished third at the French Athletics Championships long jump competition in Angers, in June 2024, making a best jump of 7.70 metres.[10][11]
References
- ^ "Victory for Maria Vicente at European U20 Championships". athleticsweekly.com. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "French Championships". World Athletics. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ Smythe, Steve (16 August 2022). "Jacob Fincham-Dukes denied long jump siler". athleticsweekly. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "Athens, Dessau and Huelva get this summer's World Athletics Continental Tour meetings in Europe underway". Europeanathletics.com. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "Jules Pommery breaks the French U23 long jump record". Lequipe.fr. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "French Championships". World Athletics. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "Men's Long Jump Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". 24 August 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ "World Championships 2023 Men's long jump results". World Athletics. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^ "Men Long Jump Results - European Athletics Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 8 June 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ "Championnats de France Elite : Les forces en présence dans les concours". athle.fr. 28 June 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2025.
- ^ "Championnats de France d'athlétisme à Angers : Lavillenie privé de JO". lequipe.fr. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 11 April 2025.