Elijah Pasquier

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Elijah Pasquier
Personal information
Born (2006-06-29) 29 June 2006 (age 19)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event High jump
Club Stade sottevillais 76
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)High jump: 2.25m (Tampere, 2025)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing Flag of France.svg  France
European U20 Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Tampere High jump
European Youth Olympic Festival
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Maribor High jump
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Banská Bystrica High jump

Elijah Pasquier (born 29 June 2006) is a French high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships. [1]

Career

He is from Evreux in Normandy. [2] An old member of Évreux Athletics Club, he was coached by Victor Moussel and Romain Lecomte. Pasquier won the French U18 high jump title in 2022 with a jump of 2.05 metres, before being selected for the French team for his international debut; and winning a silver medal at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, in July 2022. [3]

He won gold in the high jump at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia, with a jump of 2.12 metres, 3cm clear of the rest of the field. [4] [5]

Pasquier cleared a new lifetime best of 2.21m in July 2025 in Thonon-les-Bains. [6] [7] The following month, whilst competing in the high jump at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, he won the gold medal with a new lifetime best and French under-20 national best clearance of 2.25 metres to win ahead of Otis Poole of Great Britain. [8] [9] [10]

References

  1. "Elijah Pasquier". World Athletics. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  2. "2023 EYOF: Les Bleuets win five medals, Laura Montauban and Elijah Pasquier in gold". Dicodusport. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
  3. "The beautiful summer of Évreux native Elijah Pasquier". actu.fr. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  4. "17th European Youth Olympic Festival". World Athletics. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  5. "MARIBOR DELIVERS MORE SPECTACULAR ACTION ON DAY FIVE OF COMPETITION". Eurolympic.org. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  6. Mills, Steven (4 Aug 2025). "Tampere 2025 - Men's field preview". European Athletics. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  7. "Open de France et Décathlon Féminin". World Athletics. 26 July 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  8. "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  9. Henderson, Jason (10 August 2025). "FITZGERALD COMPLETES GOLDEN DOUBLE AT EURO U20 CHAMPS". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  10. Mills, Steven (10 Aug 2025). "Pasquier breaks 35-year-old French U20 record to win high jump gold in Tampere". European Athletics. Retrieved 11 August 2025.