5 good reasons to see the Toulouse Capitole Perche elite competition live with Renaud Lavillenie
For the second consecutive year, the Toulouse Capitole Perche is held in Toulouse. A sporting event where great champions including Renaud Lavillenie will compete. We tell you why the meeting will make you vibrate. To be seen live on Saturday September 17 from 3:30 p.m.
La ville rose will welcome the best pole vaulters of the moment on September 16 and 17 for the Toulouse Capitole Perche. A spectacular meeting where athletes, pole vault clubs and schools will meet for sporting moments in a friendly atmosphere led by the great champion Romain Mesnil.
France 3 Occitanie is organizing a live broadcast of the competition’s elite event. See you Saturday, September 17 at 3:30 p.m.
The event is organized by Henry Master Toulouse entrepreneur with the support of the Stade Atlétic Toulouse Université Club (SATUC),
Renaud Lavillenie, Olympic champion in 2012 and world record holder in the discipline from 2014 to 2020, has confirmed his presence. His brother Valentin will also be in the competition, but also Chris Nilsen the American star of the discipline and the very promising Anthony Ammirati, world champion and European junior champion.
L you are the best pole vaulters in the world will be in Toulouse to put themselves to the test two years before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games .
Only missing, the Swedish Armand Duplantis, world record holder in the discipline with 6.21 meters. He declined the invitation as he does not wish to jump on elevated tracks.
On the women’s side, the plateau will be. We are waiting for the best tricolor athletes with the Niçoise, Margot Chevrier, reigning French champion and Marie Julie Bonin, vice European junior champion in 2019. And it is not so often that we see female athletes performing jumps.
Because records can be broken
During the day of Saturday several meetings are organized by level. Each of them will see the best of its category compete against each other. With each jump a record can be beaten, in particular the French records. This is a competition, each athlete will be keen to beat his own record.
Each pole vaulter has 3 attempts to pass the bar. He succeeded, the bar is up. He failed, he is eliminated as in real competitions.
The Olympic discipline settles in a decor of pink bricks. The 5 competitions begin on Friday afternoon with middle and high school students, then later in the afternoon continue with the departmental level of the tests. On Saturday, it’s time for competition with the best regional players, then the best national players to finish in apotheosis with the international elite of the discipline.
All in a festive atmosphere, because the jumps are done in music and in the majestic decor of the Place du Capitole.
The pole vault is a discipline known thanks to national and international competitions. The event is completely freeSo it’s time to settle head in the air Place du Capitole and nothing says that you won’t get carried away by this aesthetic and demanding sport.