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By NICOLE JEFFERY
The Australian
12th of July 2010
WORLD indoor champion Fabrice Lapierre has leaped to the top of the lucrative Diamond League long jump standings, after claiming his second win of the series at Gateshead in England.
Lapierre, who launched himself a startling 8.78m (wind-assisted) at the national titles in Perth in April, has taken that great form off-shore to win two of the four Diamond League events held so far.
He has staged an enthralling series of contests with reigning world champion
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Fabrice the flyer shows his leaps are not flukes |
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By DANIEL LANE
June 13, 2010
TEN years ago the talented young athletes who took results to the world's media during the Sydney Olympics were ordered into an office and berated for neglecting their duty as they celebrated Cathy Freeman's historic victory in the 400m.
Among them was Fabrice Lapierre - the high-flying long jumper taking the athletics world by storm. He wasn't overly bothered by the threats to be stripped of his volunteer's uniform because the then 16-year-old was walking on air.
Apart from being swept up in the Freeman euphoria he'd also met his idol, the
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Veteran coach predicts Lapierre will break nine-metre barrier |
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ATHLETICS
By DANIEL LEWIS
Sydney Morning Herald
June 12, 2010
FRED O'CONNOR has been coaching long jump since 1946 and believes his protege, Fabrice Lapierre, will eventually go where no man has gone before - beyond nine metres.
The 86-year-old is also confident that Lapierre will claim the long jump gold for Australia at the New Delhi Commonwealth Games in October.
Lapierre, 26, was again on the podium this week in the second of seven long
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Aussie long-jumper the man to beat |
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Illawarra Mercury
June 10, 2010
AUSTRALIAN long-jumper Fabrice Lapierre will take world-leading form into round four of the Diamond League in Rome today.
After his win in the first of seven men's long jump competitions on the all-new Diamond League calendar in Shanghai last month, Lapierre will again be the man to beat in the Italian capital.
He claimed the International Association of Athletics Federations
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Lapierre takes off in elite series |
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AAP
May 25, 2010
WORLD indoor and Australian long jump champion Fabrice Lapierre has defeated world champion Dwight
Phillips to win the IAAF Diamond League series event in Shanghai.
But countryman and fellow world champion Steve Hooker suffered a rare defeat in the men’s
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Lapierre's diamond streak continues |
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By NICOLE JEFFERY
The Australian
May 24, 2010
ATHLETICS: Australia's newest long jump star Fabrice Lapierre continued his stunning start to the season by downing the triple world champion Dwight Phillips in his Diamond League debut in Shanghai last night.
Lapierre, who launched himself an extraordinary 8.78m (wind-assisted) at the national titles last month, after clinching the world indoor title in March, consolidated his position as a
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Jumper has long (and even longer) range plans |
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By Daniel Lane
The Sun-Herald
April 25, 2010
LONG jumper Fabrice Lapierre, the shooting star of Australian athletics, has a promise to fulfil before the London Olympics - to jump even further.
The 26-year-old from Sydney's west recorded the sixth-best jump in history last weekend when he soared 8.78 metres at the Commonwealth Games trials in Perth. The effort can't be officially listed because it was wind-assisted, but he has grown wings.
Lapierre aims to reach one of sport's most daunting milestones - the 8.95m
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It's Fabulous Lapierre |
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By JESSICA HALLORAN
The Sunday Telegraph
April 25, 2010
AROUND him at Westfields High School, teenage boys had dreams of being NRL superstars or playing for the Socceroos. Fabrice Lapierre? He just wanted to jump. So he did.
"I'm just a really good jumper," Lapierre says. "I can jump really high. Really far.
"When I take off, I get really high, you know what I mean, I'm kind of fast, too. It came natural to me. I just put two and two together. It's just fun getting that air time when you jump up. It's a
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Fabrice now our most famous flyer --- This man can leap the length of a stretch Hummer |
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By NICK WALSHAW
The Daily Telegraph
April 22, 2010
IF YOU really want to appreciate Fabrice Lapierre, take nine large steps. Go on. Do it now.
Mark out nine metres on your construction site. In your classroom. Even use the front bar of your local to measure that distance representing two family sedans or one imposing stretch Hummer.
OK, now try and jump it.
"Honestly, it's the only way to understand how good Fabrice is," world champion discus thrower Dani Samuels explains. "Even for other athletes, it's a mark that really does seem impossible."
All diamond earrings, leg strength and sparkling red spikes, Lapierre is the
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Australian champion flies like the wind in one giant leap for mankind |
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AAP
April 19, 2010
AUSTRALIAN Fabrice Lapierre became the sixth-best long jumper in history under any conditions, producing a mighty leap of 8.78m in the final round of the Commonwealth Games selection trials in Perth yesterday.
However, a 3.1m per second tailwind made the jump illegal for record purposes.
But Lapierre, the world indoor champion, was still thrilled to have produced such a massive leap.
Only Americans Mike Powell, Bob Beamon and Carl Lewis, Soviet athlete Robert Emmiyan
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One mighty leap for Lapierre |
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By NICOLE JEFFERY
Only five men in history have jumped further than this
ATHLETICS
April 19, 2010
A BIG jump was expected at the Commonwealth Games trials in Perth, but the surprise was that it came not from Olympic champion pole vaulter Steve Hooker, but from world indoor long jump champion Fabrice Lapierre.
In his last jump of the competition, he leapt into the realm of the greats, launching himself an extraordinary 8.78m from the board into the sandpit. The jump was wind-assisted (3.1m/second, above
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I felt I was flying Freakish Fabrice jumps 29cm past national record |
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By SCOTT GULLAN
Perth
The Herald Sun
April 19, 2010
A "CRAZY" jump has landed Fabrice Lapierre in the record books, with only five men having jumped further than the Australian champion did yesterday.
Lapierre produced a leap of 8.78m -- just 17cm off Mike Powell's world record and 29cm past Jai Taurima's national record -- on his final attempt at the Commonwealth Games selection trials at the Western Australian Athletics Stadium.
But the extraordinary jump won't be recognised as a personal best or national record
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Lapierre feels his destiny is to be longest |
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By DAN SILKSTONE
The Age
April 14, 2010
IT'S A long way to the top in the sport of long jumping but recently crowned world indoor champion Fabrice Lapierre believes he is headed there 10 centimetres at a time.
The Texas-based jumper, who claimed gold at last month's indoor championships in Doha, has grown in confidence from that win, predicting yesterday that he would soon break Jai Taurima's 10-year-old national record of 8.49
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