GRESSIER Jimmy

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	5000m
2021	1 x 8th
2020	1 x 7th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
7	2020	5000m	Monaco, MON	13:15.77
8	2021	5000m	Gateshead, GBR	13:25.36

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
10	2020	1500m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	3:36.04

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Le Lion de Boulogne (cafecremesport.com, 04 Jan 2021)

Football. (ouest-france.fr, 10 Mar 2018)

Athlete, Business Owner

French

Club Boulogne-sur-Mer [France]

Arnaud Dinielle [personal], FRA, from 2013; Adrien Taouji, FRA, from 2020

His father has served as a football coach for the youth categories at FC Conti in France. He has also been an amateur French champion in boxing in the lightweight category. (cafecremesport.com, 04 Jan 2021)

He began playing football at age five, and represented the U17 and U19 teams at the Union Sportive Boulogne [USBCO] club in France. He also represented France at the University Football World Cup in Guatemala. "Football is my passion, what I really love. I feel athletics is more like my job, where I need to be successful. As if I had been given a gift and my duty was to be successful in this sport." (ouest-france.fr, 10 Mar 2018)

In 2017 he suffered from plantar fasciitis. (lavoixdunord.fr, 02 Mar 2017)

He began focusing on athletics at age 16 at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. (cafecremesport.com, 04 Jan 2021; ouest-france.fr, 10 Mar 2018)

"My football coach convinced me to run a cross-country race. I saw I had good results in cross-country competitions without really training. I combined it with football until 2015 but it was exhausting and I realised I had to choose. My athletics trainer, who was also my physical trainer in football, told me that, although I was good at football, I had more chances to succeed in athletics. He told me football was a coin toss, while in athletics, if I worked, I was going to be successful." (cafecremesport.com, 04 Jan 2021; distance-store.com, 15 Mar 2020; ouest-france.fr, 10 Mar 2018)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (lequipe.fr, 03 Jun 2021)

French footballer Franck Ribery. (sofoot.com, 17 Dec 2019)

"If you want to succeed, you have to train hard all the time and you have to believe in yourself. Being a champion is highly motivating. When you have known struggle, your motivation is enhanced, and when it gets difficult you just won't and can't give up. It is not an option." (distance-store.com, 15 Mar 2020)