World vice-champion in the hammer throw and 5th at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, Quentin Bigot (29) raised his record to 80.55m, after crossing the symbolic barrier of 80m for the first time. last Sunday.
At the end of a high-flying competition, Bigot came close to beating the Polish specialists at home.
But Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki had the best throw on the very last throw with 81.58m, the world's best performance of the season.
Benjamin Robert, eliminated in the playoffs at the Olympics, was overtaken at the 800m line by Polish Olympic bronze medalist Patryk Dobek (1:44.49), but managed to run at the level of his record set in Marseille in 2021 ( 1 min 44 sec 53).
For his sixth race in three weeks, he finally validated the level of performance required by the French athletics federation (1:44.70), more difficult than the international criteria, to participate in the Eugene World Championships (July 15-24 ).
Renaud Lavillenie took 2nd place in the pole vault competition with 5.81m, his best jump of the season, behind American Chris Nilsen (5.92m), Valentin Lavillenie finishing 4th (5.71m).
In the women's hammer throw, Alexandra Tavernier only took 7th place with a throw of 69.05 m, far from her best level and the winner, the Polish legend triple Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk (75.76 m).
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