{{short description|French sprinter}} {{Infobox sportsperson | image = Men 100 m French Athletics Championships 2013 t164357.jpg | imagesize = 270px | caption = Vicaut at the 2013 French Championships | name = Jimmy Vicaut | nationality = {{FRA}} | sport = [[Running]] | event =[[60 metres]], [[100 metres]], [[200 metres]] | birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1992|2|27}} | birth_place = [[Bondy]], [[Seine-Saint-Denis]], [[France]] | residence = | height = {{convert|1.88|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Biographical information |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/125951 |website=Olympedia |access-date=27 June 2024}}</ref> | weight = {{convert|83|kg|lb|abbr=on}} | pb = '''100 m outdoor''': 9.86 ([[Paris]] 2015, [[Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis|Montreuil]] 2016)<br> '''200 m outdoor''': 20.30 ([[Paris]] 2013)<br> '''60 m indoor''': 6.48 ([[Gothenburg]] 2013) | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Men's [[Athletics (sport)|athletics]]}} {{MedalCountry |{{FRA}} }} {{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}} {{MedalBronze| [[2012 Olympic Games|2012 London]] | [[Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}} {{MedalCompetition|[[World Championships in Athletics|World Championships]]}} {{MedalSilver | [[2011 World Championships in Athletics|2011 Daegu]] | [[2011 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}} {{MedalCompetition|[[European Athletics Championships|European Championships]]}} {{MedalGold|[[2010 European Athletics Championships|2010 Barcelona]]|[[2010 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}} {{MedalSilver|[[2012 European Athletics Championships|2012 Helsinki]]|[[2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres|100 m]]}} {{Medal|Silver|[[2022 European Athletics Championships|2022 Munich]]|[[2022 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}} {{MedalSilver|[[2016 European Athletics Championships|2016 Amsterdam]]|[[2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}} {{MedalBronze|[[2012 European Athletics Championships|2012 Helsinki]]|[[2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay|4 × 100 m relay]]}} {{MedalBronze|[[2016 European Athletics Championships|2016 Amsterdam]]|[[2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres|100 m]]}} {{MedalCompetition|[[European Athletics Indoor Championships|European Indoor Championships]]}} {{MedalGold|[[2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships|2013 Gothenburg]]|[[2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres|60 m]]}} {{MedalCompetition|[[European Games]]}} {{Medal|Bronze|[[2023 European Games|2023 Kraków-Małopolska]]|[[2023 European Athletics Team Championships#2023 European Games individual medalists|4 × 100 m relay]]}} {{MedalCompetition|[[IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics|World Junior Championships]]}} {{MedalBronze |[[2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics|2010 Moncton]]|[[2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres|100 m]]}} {{MedalCompetition|[[European Athletics Junior Championships|European Junior Championships]]}} {{MedalGold |[[2011 European Athletics Junior Championships|2011 Tallinn]]|[[2011 European Athletics Junior Championships – Men's 100 metres|100 m]]}} {{MedalGold |[[2011 European Athletics Junior Championships|2011 Tallinn]]|4 × 100 m relay}} }}
'''Jimmy Vicaut''' (born 27 February 1992 in [[Bondy]], [[Seine-Saint-Denis]]) is a French [[Sprint (running)|sprinter]] who specializes in the [[100 metres|100]] and [[200 metres]]. His personal best of 9.86 in the 100 m is the joint second fastest time of any European athlete.
==Biography== Vicaut was born to a [[France|French]] father and an [[Ivory Coast|Ivorian]] mother. He began athletics at the age of ten years and has specialized in the sprint. He won the [[bronze medal]] at the [[2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics]] in [[Moncton]], [[Canada]] and promptly travelled to [[Barcelona]] to help the French men's [[4 × 100 metres relay]] team to the [[gold medal]] at the [[2010 European Athletics Championships]].
Vicaut's junior personal best over 100 m, 10.07 seconds, is the fourth fastest time ever run by a European junior, behind only [[Christophe Lemaitre]] (10.04), [[Adam Gemili]] (10.05) and [[Dwain Chambers]] (10.06).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/williams-wins-european-junior-100m-gold/ |title=Williams wins European junior 100m gold |work=Athletics Weekly |date=22 July 2010 |first=Jon |last=Mulkeen |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616074903/http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/williams-wins-european-junior-100m-gold/ |archive-date=16 June 2012 }}</ref>
At the French national championships in [[Albi]] on 29 July 2011, Vicaut finished second behind Christophe Lemaitre, tying his personal best of 10.07 sec. Lemaitre set a new French national record with 9.92 sec.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iaaf.org/WCH11/news/newsid=61021.html |title=Another national record for Lemaitre – 9.92 in Albi – French champs, Days 1 and 2 |work=IAAF.org |date=30 July 2011 }}</ref>
At the [[2011 World Championships in Athletics|2011 World Championships]] in [[Daegu]], Vicaut became only the second [[Junior (athletics)|junior]] to ever run in a World Championship 100 m final, after [[Darrel Brown]] in [[2003 World Championships in Athletics|2003]]. Vicaut finished sixth with 10.27 sec, while his fellow countryman Lemaitre finished fourth with 10.19 sec.
At the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], Vicaut was part of France's 4 × 100 m relay team that claimed the Bronze medal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/london-2012/athletics/4x100m-relay-men|title = London 2012 4x100m relay men Results - Olympic athletics}}</ref>
On 13 July 2013, at the French national championships in [[Paris]], Vicaut won the title in 9.95 sec., a personal best.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/sport/article/2013/07/13/jimmy-vicaut-nouvelle-etoile-du-sprint-francais_3447324_3242.html |title=Jimmy Vicaut nouvelle étoile du sprint français |work=Le Monde |date=13 July 2013 }}</ref>
At the [[2013 World Championships in Athletics|2013 World Championships]] in [[Moscow]], Vicaut took part in three events—the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. He was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 100 and 200 metres events, while his relay team did not advance to the final from the heats.
In 2015, Vicaut equalled the European 100 m record time of 9.86 that Portugal’s [[Francis Obikwelu]] had set almost 11 years before at the [[Olympic Games]] in Athens.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jimmy Vicaut at World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/-/14334964 |access-date=23 August 2025 |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref> That time also broke the French national record of 9.92 set by Lemaitre in 2011.
In June 2016, ahead of the [[2016 Summer Olympics|Rio Summer Olympics]], Vicaut equalled again his 9.86 time on the 100 metre dash at the [[Pro Athlé Tour]] meeting in [[Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis|Montreuil]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.athleticsweekly.com/featured/jimmy-vicaut-equals-european-100m-record-9-86-global-update-44467/|title=Jimmy Vicaut equals European 100m record with 9.86 - global update - Athletics Weekly|date=2016-06-08|website=Athletics Weekly|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-06-10}}</ref>
His younger brother, [[Willy Vicaut|Willy]], also an athlete, competes in the [[shot put]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://paa.athle.org/asp.net/espaces.editos/editos.aspx?id=7041 |title=Les frères VICAUT|work=Paris Avenir Athletic |date=18 December 2010 |language=fr}}</ref>
==Personal bests== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Distance !! Time !! venue |- | 100 m (outdoor) || 9.86 s || Paris (4 July 2015)<br /> Montreuil (7 June 2016) |- | 200 m (outdoor) || 20.30 s || Paris (6 July 2013) |- | 60 m (indoor) || 6.48 s || Gothenburg (2 March 2013) Birmingham (15 February 2014) |}
===Track records=== As of September 2024, Vicault holds the following track records for 100 metres. {| class="wikitable" style= "text-align: center" |- !Location !Time !Windspeed<br>m/s !Date |- | [[Aix-les-Bains]] || 9.95 || +1.7 || 18/05/2014 |- | [[Angers]] || 9.88 || +1.9 || 25/06/2016 |- | [[Dijon]] || 9.97 || +0.5 || 21/05/2017 |- | [[Grenoble]] || 10.00 || +1.6 || 20/05/2018 |- | [[La Roche-sur-Yon]] || 10.06 || –1.2 || 03/09/2021 |- | [[Marseille]] || 9.92 || +0.3 || 16/06/2018 |- | [[Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis]] || 9.86<br>[[French records in athletics|NR]] || +1.8 || 07/06/2016 |- | [[Saint-Étienne]] || 10.02 || +1.4 || 26/07/2019 |- | [[Tallinn]] || 10.07 || +0.3 || 22/07/2011 |- | [[Tourcoing]] || 10.02 || –0.7 || 24/05/2015 |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{World Athletics||name=Jimmy Vicaut}} *[[Fédération française d'athlétisme|FFA]] profile for [http://bases.athle.com/asp.net/athletes.aspx?base=biographies&seq=519575 Jimmy Vicaut] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20100708155904/http://www.european-athletics.org/general-news/frances-vicaut-shows-off-moncton-medal-credentials.html France’s Vicaut shows off Moncton medal credentials] * {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vi/jimmy-vicaut-1.html |title=Jimmy Vicaut |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922145028/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vi/jimmy-vicaut-1.html |archive-date=2013-09-22 |url-status=dead}} * {{commons category-inline}}
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