After a painful crossing of the desert, he comes back in force. Quentin Bigot unlocked the French medal count at the Doha World Championships (Qatar), taking the silver medal on Wednesday with a throw at 78.19 meters. Before this performance, his best of the season, his career had a long dark time ...
Both a freight train driver and a hammer-thrower, Quentin Bigot's fate had darkened after a two-year suspension for doping between 2014 and 2016. But the new vice world champion has always believed in his destiny. Now qualified as a "repentant", the 26-year-old Messin is once again reaching for the heights, he who was European junior champion in 2011 and bronze medalist at Euro 2013. Passed from purgatory to redemption, Quentin Bigot finally knows the joy of a podium on a world competition and becomes by the way the first French hammer thrower has won an international medal.
"On track to the Tokyo Games"
"I psychologically changed a lot of beliefs and a lot of things in training, the mistakes of the past I learned from my first year of suspension.It's been five years still all that, I was twenty years old. I'm twenty-seven practically today and for years I've been clean and there are no more worries on this side The lessons are what I've been doing since 2016, 2017, 2018 and who are now paying off, "he said after his silver medal.
Since his suspension, Quentin Bigot had known a route often tainted by disappointment. Fourth at the World Championships in London in 1017 and eliminated from qualifying at the European Championships in Berlin last year, he had tackled these revanchist championships. He is "now on track to the Tokyo Games, his next stop," as the analysis Corinne Boulloud, Special Envoy of Europe 1 in Doha.