French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie hardly treated this like a garden-variety competition. It was for backyard bragging rights. So he raised his intensity. Lavillenie and Mondo Duplantis of ...

French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie hardly treated this like a garden-variety competition. It was for backyard bragging rights. So he raised his intensity. Lavillenie and Mondo Duplantis of Sweden ...

But Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie – with Bubka cheering him on – did the almost unthinkable by bettering Bubka in the latter’s hometown of Donetsk in Ukraine.

— Renaud LAVILLENIE ® (@airlavillenie) August 16, 2016 Lavillenie’s apology didn’t matter much to the Brazilians who still booed him during the medal ceremony on Tuesday.

France's former Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie has found a way to keep his competitive juices flowing during the coronavirus lockdown by staging an "international home containment ...

In February 2014, Renaud Lavillenie became the pole vault world record holder (6.16m), surpassing the great Sergey Bubka in Donetsk, in the presence of the master himself. The Frenchman has been ...

— Renaud LAVILLENIE OLY (@airlavillenie) August 16, 2016 The Brazilian fans booed Lavillenie once again during Tuesday night’s medal ceremony, which IOC president Thomas Bach called ...

EUGENE -- French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie has gone higher than any person without wings. Lavillenie set the world pole vault record in 2014 with a clearance of 20 feet, 2 1/2 inches.

Pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie of France broke one of track and field's oldest records when he cleared 6.16 meters (20 feet 2 1/2 inches) to beat Sergei Bubka's 21-year-old indoor record with ...

Both days, Renaud Lavillenie was booed by the home crowd. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach thinks enough is enough.