VICAUT Jimmy

Date of Birth: 27 Feb 1992

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Place of birth: PARIS

Birth Country:

France

Place of residence : UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's 100m
	Men's 4 x 100m Relay FRA France

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 100m Round 1 - Heat 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 100m Semi-Final 1	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Track	Men's 4 x 100m Relay Round 1 - Heat 1	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m	4 x 100m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (10.04)	Round 1 (38.35)
2012	London, GBR	SF (10.16)	3rd (38.16)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m	200m	4 x 100m
2019	Doha, QAT	SF (10.16)	-	7th (DNF)
2017	London, GBR	6th (10.08)	-	5th (38.48)
2015	Beijing, CHN	8th (10.00)	-	5th (38.23)
2013	Moscow, RUS	SF (10.01)	SF (20.51)	Heats (38.97)
2011	Daegu, KOR	6th (10.27)	-	2nd (38.20)

World Relays

Year	Location	4 x 100m
2019	Yokohama, JPN	5th (38.31)
2017	Nassau, BAH	5th (39.83)

European Championships

Year	Location	100m
2018	Berlin, GER	8th (DNS)

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

Year	100m
2019	1 x 6th
2018	2 x 2nd
2017	1 x 8th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2018	100m	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	9.91
2	2018	100m	Rome, ITA	10.02
6	2019	100m	Monaco, MON	10.17
8	2017	100m	Oslo, NOR	10.68

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
5	2021	200m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Eugene, OR, USA	21.05

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

Lucky Luke [his childhood friends gave him this nickname because he was always fast, according to his brother Willy]. (leparisien.fr, 22 Mar 2012; bases.athle.com, 10 Aug 2014)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, French

Rana Reider [personal], USA

Sporting relatives:

His younger brother Willy competed in shot put at the world junior championships in 2014. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Sep 2020)

A thigh muscle injury forced him to pull out of the 100m final at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. (lequipe.fr, 06 Nov 2019)

He suffered a hamstring injury at the 2015 French Indoor Championships in Aubierre, forcing him to withdraw from the finals. It was his first competition back after a seven-month injury break. (lequipe.fr, 21 Feb 2015; iaaf.org, 21 Feb 2015)

He was troubled by numerous injuries in 2014, including a hamstring injury that prevented him from competing at the 2014 European Championships in Zurich, Switzerland. In total he was out of action for seven months in 2014. (lequipe.fr, 21 Feb 2015; lejdd.fr, 23 Aug 2015)

He tore his left hamstring during training in February 2012. It was the fourth European winter in a row where he suffered time away due to injury. (eurosport.fr, 17 Feb 2012)

He began athletics at age 10 along with his brother Willy. (fdaf.org, 01 Jan 2012; leparisien.fr, 22 Mar 2012)

His father encouraged him and his brother Willy into athletics. He preferred sprinting to other disciplines as he was always a fast runner as a child. (fdaf.org, 01 Jan 2012; leparisien.fr, 22 Mar 2012)

He trains with Rana Reider's group on the campus of the University of North Florida in the United States of America. (lequipe.fr, 06 Nov 2019)

US athlete Maurice Greene. (leparisien.fr, 09 Nov 2011)

General Interest

General
MOVE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
In November 2019 he announced he was leaving Dimitri Demoniere, his coach since 2016, to move to the United States of America to train under coach Rana Reider at the University of North Florida. "After 10 years training [in France] I decided to leave for Florida to train with Rana Reider and his group. It is an opportunity to widen my athletic, professional and personal horizons." (Instagram profile, 06 Nov 2019; lequipe.fr, 06 Nov 2019; lequipe.fr, 09 Jul 2020)

OLYMPIC UPGRADE
He was part of the French 4x100m relay team that finished fifth at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but was promoted to fourth immediately after the race following the disqualification of the Canadian team. In 2015, following the disqualification of the US team that finished second in London due to an anti-doping violation sanction imposed on Tyson Gay, the French relay team was promoted to third place and the bronze medal position. (lequipe.fr, 04 Jul 2015; lexpress.fr, 16 May 2015)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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