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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.
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]
