Ethan Cormont (born 29 September 2000 in

Créteil Créteil () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Créteil is the ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-de-Marne department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Cré ...

) is a French Olympic athlete who competes in the

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

Early life

From

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and coached by Alain Kouznetzoff, in February 2019, he broke the French junior pole vault record, until then held by

Jean Galfione Jean Galfione (born 9 June 1971) is a French retired pole vaulter. During his pole vaulting career, he won at least one medal in each of the following major international competitions - the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Indo ...

, by crossing 5.62m. In the process he won the national junior title.

Career

He won the bronze medal in the pole vault competition of the 2020 French championships, crossing 5.58m to finish behind brothers

Renaud Lavillenie Renaud Lavillenie ( or ; born 18 September 1986) is a French pole vaulter. Lavillenie won the gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London and the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. In addition to his Olympic success, he has won three Wor ...

(gold) and

Valentin Lavillenie Valentin Lavillenie ( or ; born 16 July 1991) is a French athlete specialising in the pole vault. He won the gold medal at the 2013 Jeux de la Francophonie. Lavillenie is the younger brother of another pole vaulter, a former world record holder Re ...

(silver). On January 31, 2021, he broke his personal best by passing 5.72m. On this occasion he achieved the minimum for the European indoor championships. A week later, he broke his record again by crossing 5.73 m in

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. At the French indoor championships in

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on February 21, 2021, he won the silver medal with a jump to 5.72m, behind Valentin Lavillenie but in front of Renaud Lavillenie. Later that month he cleared 5.80m for a new personal best. In July 2021, he equalled this high to win the

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in Tallinn. At the Tokyo Olympics Corment cleared 5.50m and finished twelfth in his qualifying group. At the

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event has taken place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 IAAF World Indo ...

Cormont cleared 5.75m to make the final.

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