Rénelle Lamote in the 800 meters and Jean-Marc Pontvianne in the triple jump, failed to achieve the Olympic minimums, Saturday June 29 during the French Championships in Angers, last chance to do so less than a month before the Olympics of Paris 2024.
They will still have to wait to find out if they will be at the biggest athletics festival of this century, at home in France, in Paris. Montpellier’s Rénelle Lamote and Nîmes’ Jean-Marc Pontvianne did not actually achieve the performance needed to obtain their Olympic qualification, Saturday at the French Championships in Angers. Namely 1’59”30 for the former and 17.22 m for the latter.
“I can’t be satisfied with what I’ve doneLamote told our colleagues at France Télévisions after a fourth place and a time of 2’01”59, synonymous with fourth place.
“But I was really afraid of losing my Olympic qualification (due to his injury) and I think she is still under threat. It no longer depends on me but on the selection committee. I hope they will understand that I have had injuries and that it has been complicated but that I will be in good shape. It’s just that, right now, I am tired”continued the 2016, 2018 and 2022 European vice-champion.
Pontvianne sixth in the triple jump
The Montpellier athlete will actually have to wait for the decision of the Olympic selection committee, which will only be able to choose three girls in the coming days. Jean-Marc Pontvianne will also have to wait for a possible selection by this same committee.
Saturday in Angers, the Nîmes only finished in sixth place in the triple jump competition with a single successful jump at 16.47 m (wind: +0.7 m/s). But an Olympic ticket could be his awarded, thanks to a jump of 17.13 m achieved this season.
