Christophe Lemaitre

Quick Facts

Full Name	Christophe Lemaitre
Occupation	Runner
Date Of Birth	Jun 11, 1990(1990-06-11)
Age	34
Birthplace	Culoz
Country	France
Birth City	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Horoscope	Gemini

Christophe Lemaitre Biography

Christophe Lemaitre is one of the most popular and richest Runner who was born on June 11, 1990 in Culoz, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The sprinter took part in his Olympic debut during London’s 2012 Summer Games in London.

In 2010, he was picked in 2010 to be the European Athlete of the Year, one year following In 2010 he was chosen as the European Athlete of the Year, one year after Phillips Idowu..

Christophe Lemaitre (French pronunciation: ​[kʁistɔf ləmɛtʁ] ; born 11 June 1990) is a French sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event. He remained the only one to achieve the feat until joined by Ramil Guliyev and Filippo Tortu. Lemaitre has run a sub-10 second 100m on seven occasions: three times in 2010 and four times in 2011. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2012 London Olympic Games and in the 200 metres at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.

Lemaitre grew up in the town of Culoz, where he took part in handball, rugby and football, before his sprinting prowess was discovered. In 2005 at the age of 15, during national sprinting events, Lemaitre ended up with the fastest 50 metres in the country. A month after his 16th birthday in 2006, and less than a year after joining an athletics club in Aix-les-Bains, Lemaitre ran 100 m in 10.96 seconds. His personal best improved to 10.53 seconds in 2007.

His birthplace was in Annecy, France.

Christophe Lemaitre Net Worth

Christophe Lemaitre is one of the richest Runner from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christophe Lemaitre 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was the winner of the 200-meter event at World Junior Championships in

2008. World Junior Championships.

The 2010, European Championships, he won three gold medals, including the 100 meters, 200 meters, and the 4×100 meters relay.

At the Olympics, Lemaitre didn’t reach the 100 m final after finishing 3rd in his semi-final in 10.07, although it was his season’s best. However, in the 200 m, he qualified for the final after clocking 20.01 in the semi-final behind America’s LaShawn Merritt. In the 200 metres final, Lemaitre won the bronze medal in a 20.12 clocking, just 3 milliseconds ahead of Great Britain’s Adam Gemili, with the podium spot determined in a photo finish. In the process, Lemaitre became the first French athlete to win a medal in the event since Abdoulaye Seye in 1960.

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At the 2010 European Championships, he won the gold medal in the 100 m with a time of 10.11 s. The next day, after comfortably progressing through the heats and semi-finals of the 200 m, Lemaitre became the double European champion by storming to victory in the 200 m final in a time of 20.37 s, beating Great Britain’s Christian Malcolm by 0.01 s (Malcolm clocked his season’s best time of 20.38 s in the final). Lemaitre then combined with Jimmy Vicaut, Pierre- Alexis Pessonneaux, and Martial Mbandjock in the 4 × 100 m relay final to finish first ahead of Italy and Germany in a time of 38.11 s. At the IAAF World Challenge’s Rieti Meeting in Rieti, Italy on 29 August 2010, Lemaitre competed in the 100 m. In that event, he equalled his personal best in his heat with a time of 9.98 s, and improved on it in the final with a time of 9.97 s (reaction time 0.199 s).

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At the start of the 2010 outdoor season, he opened with a run of 10.09 seconds in Aix-les-Bains before winning in 10.24 into a headwind of −2.2 m/s in Vénissieux. He ran at the French National Interclub Championships in Franconville in May 2010 and recorded a new 100 m personal best of 10.03 seconds, although he said he was disappointed to have missed Ronald Pognon’s French record of 9.99 seconds. He aimed once more at the record at the 2010 European Team Championships and, although he again missed his target, he finished as runner-up against Dwain Chambers with a personal best of 10.02 seconds.

Can a white man run 100m under 10 seconds?

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Christophe Lemaitre became the first white man to run the 100 meters in under 10 seconds when he clocked 9.98 on Friday, the French athletics federation said.

Who was the first European to break the ten second barrier in the 100m?

Britain has a handful of male sprinters who have run sub-10, starting with Linford Christie , the first European to break the ten- second barrier (24 September 1988).

Is a sub 9 second 100m possible?

In 2008, at the Beijing Olympic Games, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ran the 100m in just 9.69 seconds , setting a new world record. A year later, Bolt surpassed his own feat with an astonishing 9.58-second run at the 2009 Berlin World Championships.

What is Bolt's top speed?

They found that, 67.13 meters into the race, Bolt reached a top speed of 43.99 kilometers per hour (27.33 miles per hour). He finished with a time of 9.76 seconds in that race, but research has suggested that, with his body type, he probably shouldn’t even be competitive at that distance.

Has a white person ever won the 100m?

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