Ethan Cormont (born 29 September 2000 in

Créteil Créteil () is a Communes of France, commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. Créteil is the ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-de-Marne Departments of France, dep ...

) 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, bar. Pole jumping was already practiced by the ...

Early life

From

Maisons-Alfort Maisons-Alfort () is a Communes of France, commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the Kilometre Zero, center of Paris. Maisons-Alfort is famous as the location of the National Veterinary School of Alfort. The Fo ...

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 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympics in London and the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Olympics in Rio. In addition to ...

(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, R ...

(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

2021 European Athletics U23 Championships The 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships were the 13th edition of the biennial athletics competition between European athletes under the age of twenty-three. It was planned to be held in Bergen, Norway from 8 to 11 July., but this venue was c ...

in Tallinn. At the

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

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena, Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 IAAF Worl ...

Cormont cleared 5.75m to make the final.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cormont, Ethan 2000 births Living people French male pole vaulters People from Créteil Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for France 21st-century French sportsmen