Marie-Julie Bonnin
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| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 December 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Pole Vault | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Pole Vault (i): 4.76m (Clermont-Ferrand, 2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marie-Julie Bonnin (born 17 December 2001) is a French pole vaulter. She won the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships, and she was the bronze medalist at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[1]
Career
From Bordeaux,[2] as the French junior champion, Bonnin won the silver medal at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships held in Boras.[3]
In July 2022, Bonnin won the pole vault at the Open de France.[4] Bonnin qualified for the final at the 2022 European Athletics Championships held in Munich in August 2022.[5] She finished sixth in the final setting a new personal best height of 4.55 metres.[6] In 2022, she was also the gold medalist at the French U23 Championships, and silver medalist at the French Elite Championships.[7]
In July 2023, Bonnin secured the gold medal in the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland with a winning jump of 4.50 metres, having started the competition with two fouls at 4.30.[8]
In July 2024, she improved her personal best three times to clear 4.70 metres in Sotteville-lès-Rouen.[9] She subsequently competed in the pole vault at the 2024 Paris Olympics, placing eleventh overall.[10]
Bonnin was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn where she won the bronze medal with a 4.70 metre clearance.[11][12] She won the gold medal at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing on 22 March 2025, making a new personal best clearance of 4.75 metres, which also equalled the French national record, previously set in 2018 by Ninon Chapelle.[13][14]
She was a finalist at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, placing eighth overall.[15][16]
Bonnin opened her 2026 indoor season with a clearance of 4.58m to defeat New Zealand’s Imogen Ayris on countback at the StarPerche World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting in Bordeaux, and clearing 4.70 metres to finish ahead of Ayris' lifetime best on countback in Caen the following week.[17][18] In February, she cleared 4.76 metres for the first time at the All Star Perche, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, in Clermont-Ferrand, France.[19] She won the pole vault title at the 2026 French Indoor Athletics Championships in Aubiere.[20]
References
- ^ "Marie-Julie Bonnin". World Athletics. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Starperche de Bordeaux : Kevin Mayer et Marie-Julie Bonnin dans leur jardin" [Bordeaux Starperche: Kevin Mayer and Marie-Julie Bonnin in their own garden]. Stadion-actu.fr (in French). 11 January 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Championnats d'Europe juniors : Les Bleuets prennent leur élan" [Junior European Championships: Les Bluets gain momentum]. stadion-actu.fr (in French). 21 July 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Marie-Julie Bonnin s'impose aux Open !" [Marie-Julie Bonnin wins at the Open!]. athlelana.com (in French). 25 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Marie-Julie Bonnin et Margot Chevrier qualifiées pour la finale de la perche à Munich" [Marie-Julie Bonnin and Margot Chevrier qualified for the pole vault final in Munich]. Lequipe.fr (in French). 15 August 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ Coignac, Thomas (18 August 2022). ""Je me suis tellement amusée" : la Bordelaise Marie-Julie Bonnin impressionne aux championnats d'Europe" [" I had so much fun": Bordeaux's Marie-Julie Bonnin impresses at the European Championships]. Francebleu.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ Carre, Antoine (12 January 2023). "Athlétisme (StarPerche) : Marie-Julie Bonnin, le grand saut avant les JO" [Athletics (StarPerche): Marie-Julie Bonnin, the big leap before the Olympics]. sudouest.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ Rolnin, Annabelle (15 July 2023). "Sasha Zhoya, Marie-Julie Bonnin et Simon Gore titrés aux Championnats d'Europe espoirs" [Sasha Zhoya, Marie-Julie Bonnin and Simon Gore titled at the European U23 Championships]. lequipe.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 July 2023.
- ^ "Meeting Premium de Sotteville : Bonnin explose son record personnel". athle.fr (in French). 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Women's Pole Vault Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 2 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
- ^ "LA SÉLECTION FRANÇAISE". athle.fr (in French). 25 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
- ^ Crumley, Euan (8 March 2025). "Jeremiah Azu flies to 60m success in Apeldoorn". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
- ^ "Athlètes Femmes". athle.fr (in French). n.d. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ "Bonnin hits the heights to claim world indoor pole vault crown in Nanjing". World Athletics. 22 March 2025. Retrieved 22 March 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 15 Sep 2025. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
- ^ "La sélection française". Athle.fr. 1 September 2025. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (24 Jan 2026). "World indoor champion Bonnin opens with victory in Bordeaux". European Athletics. Retrieved 25 Jan 2026.
- ^ Mills, Steven (30 Jan 2026). "Bonnin clears 4.70m for victory while Bradford denies Collet in Caen". European Athletics. Retrieved 31 Jan 2026.
- ^ "Duplantis starts season with 6.06m clearance in Clermont-Ferrand". World Athletics. 22 Feb 2026. Retrieved 22 Feb 2026.
- ^ "French Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 28 February 2026. Retrieved 2 March 2026.