Jimmy Vicaut
Vicaut at the 2013 French Championships
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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality |
 France
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| Born |
27 February 1992 Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
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| Sport | Running |
| Event(s) | 60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) |
100m outdoor: 9.86 (Paris 2015, Montreuil 2016) |
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Medal record
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100m outdoor: 9.86 (Paris 2015, Montreuil 2016)
200m outdoor: 20.30 (Paris 2013)
Jimmy Vicaut (born 27 February 1992 in Bondy, Paris) is a French sprinter who specializes in the 100 and 200 metres. His personal best of 9.86 in the 100 m gives him the fastest time of any European born athlete.
Vicaut was born to an Ivorian mother and a French father. He began athletics at the age of ten years and has specialized in the sprint. He won the bronze medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Moncton, Canada and promptly travelled to Barcelona to help the French men's 4 x 100 metres relay team to the gold medal at the 2010 European Athletics Championships.
Vicaut's junior personal best over 100 m, 10.07 seconds, is the fourth fastest time ever run by a European junior, behind only Christophe Lemaitre (10.04), Adam Gemili (10.05) and Dwain Chambers (10.06).
At the French national championships in Albi on 29 July 2011, Vicaut finished second behind Christophe Lemaitre, tying his personal best of 10.07 sec. Lemaitre set a new French national record with 9.92 sec.
At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu, Vicaut became only the second junior to ever run in a World Championship 100 m final, after Darrel Brown in 2003. Vicaut finished sixth with 10.27 sec, while his fellow countryman Lemaitre finished fourth with 10.19 sec.
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