Margot Chevrier

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Margot Chevrier
Personal information
NationalityFrench
Born (1999-12-21) 21 December 1999 (age 25)
Nice, France
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Pole Vault
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)Pole Vault: 4.71m (Paris, 2023)

Margot Chevrier (born 21 December 1999) is a French track and field athlete who competes in the pole vault. She is a multiple French national champion, indoors and outdoors. [1]

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Early and personal life

From Nice, Chevrier started athletics in 2012. She combines her Athletics training with studying medicine. [2]

Career

She won the French Athletics Championships in the pole vault in June 2021 with a jump of 4.51 metres in Angers. [3] She won the national indoor title at the French Athletics Indoor Championships in the pole vault in Miramas in February 2022 with a best height of 4.65 metres. [4] In June 2022 Chevrier claimed her third consecutive French national pole vault title at the French Athletics Championships. [5]

Chevrier reached the final of the Women's pole vault at the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene, Oregon in July 2022, but did not register a height in the final. [6] Competing in the Women's pole vault at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich in August 2022, Chevrier finished tenth overall. [7]

In February 2023 she claimed her fourth consecutive national pole vault title, 2 indoors and 2 outdoors. [8]

She set a new personal best height of 4.71m to finish second at the Paris Diamond League event on 9 June 2023. [9] She competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. [10]

She finished in eighth place at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. During the event she suffered a broken ankle which halted the competition for 15 minutes while she received medical treatment and was stretchered from the arena. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Margot Chevrier". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  2. ↑ Goursaud, Etienne (25 February 2022). "Athlé – Margot Chevrier – J'ai toujours été un peu casse-cou". sans-filtre.fr. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "French Championships". World Athletics. 25 June 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "French Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 26 February 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  5. ↑ "Margot Chevrier again champion of France". Archysport.com. 28 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  6. ↑ Kriel, Délia (27 July 2022). "Margot Chevrier: "I would like to achieve the French record at Herculis". Lagazettedemonaco.com. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  7. ↑ "La perchiste niçoise Margot Chevrier termine 10e de la finale des championnats d'Europe". Nicematin.com. 17 July 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
  8. ↑ "Athlétisme. Margot Chevrier décroche un quatrième titre d'affilée à la perche". Ouest-France.fr. 18 February 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  9. ↑ "Kipyegon, Girma and Ingebrigtsen make history in Paris". World Athletics. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  10. ↑ "Women's Pole Vault Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". Watch Athletics. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  11. ↑ Wilson, Jeremy (2 March 2024). "French pole vaulter Margot Chevrier suffers horror ankle break that left 'bone sticking out'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
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