with a hammer, Bigot drives a primary nail in Montreuil – Libération

2024-05-17 15:15:29

Operated on for a herniated disc in January 2023, the Frenchman discovered the world’s elite in hammer throwing this week on the Montreuil assembly, close to Paris. Attaining a efficiency that bodes nicely for the beginning of the season,

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For French hammer thrower Quentin Bigot, competing in European or world championships is nice. “It’s all the time the identical set [l’aire de lancer], all the time the identical hammer and all the time the identical adversaries.” Particularly golgoths from Central and Jap Europe, particularly Poland, a rustic the place the hammer is king, and whose throwers don’t have anything to envy of the glory of the sprinters in Jamaica.

So whereas we’re at it, why not evaluate the Olympic Video games and the Montreuil assembly (Seine-Saint-Denis)? As a result of on Thursday Might 16 within the night on the Jean-Delbert stadium, it was the world elite that Quentin Bigot confronted for his return to competitors after having had surgical procedure for a herniated disc in January 2023: the Polish titans had been there – Wojciech Nowicki, reigning Olympic champion, Pawel Fajdek, five-time world champion – and all that was lacking was the younger Canadian Ethan Katzberg, who burst onto the scene final 12 months to win the world title. “I discovered the identical guys I noticed two years in the past,” confirmed Bigot, reassured, Thursday night. Nowicki was pleased to see me, he got here to verify on me on the finish of the competitors and mentioned: “Lastly you’re again, the primary stone has been laid for you.”

This primary stone? A throw of 75.42 m which earned the French champion third place behind Nowicki (79.54 m) and Fajdek (75.74 m). Not very near the Olympic minimums (78.20), removed from his report at 80.55 m, however gentle years away from worrying Messin: “I believe I’m in the most effective season of my profession, assured us -he in March. I am popping out of an internship the place I broke lots of data, data that even date again to the summer season earlier than the Tokyo Video games. It’s superb.”

The Frenchman certainly achieved a efficiency that bodes nicely for the beginning of the season, according to these he achieved at the beginning of his greatest summers, when he grew to become fifth on the 2021 Olympics or vice-world champion in 2019. With the added satisfaction of getting managed to beat the bodily and psychological issue linked to virtually two years of absence. “On the time of my first check, I used to be harassed like a cadet,” he laughed as soon as he left the stadium, on his option to the pressure anti-doping management. The final competitors I did was Munich in 2022 and I had completed with my herniated disc, so I needed to do away with all that. Nervousness, dangerous stress….” It is accomplished. Make method for the minimums, which he now says he is able to knock out “tomorrow or in per week”.

Olympic minimums which Mélina Robert-Michon got here near within the discus in Montreuil. Second within the competitors received by the Portuguese Liliana Ca (63.67 m), the Frenchwoman improved her greatest mark of the season with 63.26. Not sufficient to fulfill the Lyonnaise, nonetheless within the working to be the usual bearer of the French Olympic crew: “I am slightly annoyed as a result of I had lots of want and I hoped to do higher, however this It will not be this time. No stress although, she stays eligible for the rating.