# Fabrice Lapierre

Fabrice Lapierre (born 17 October 1983 in Réduit, Mauritius) is a Mauritian-born Australian long jumper.
Lapierre placed 4th at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, behind another Australian, Mitchell Watt, who took the bronze. At the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar, Lapierre won the gold medal with a jump of 8.17 metres, beating both Watt and the defending champion Godfrey Mokoena of South Africa.
His personal best jump is 8.40 metres, achieved on 14 July 2010 in Nuoro. Prior to this, his lifetime best was 8.35 metres, achieved on 4 July 2009 in Madrid. He jumped 8.57 metres at the same competition, but there was too much wind (+3.6 metres per second).
On April 18, 2010, at the Australian Athletics Championship in Perth, Lapierre grabbed the national title with a last-round jump of 8.78, again with an illegal tailwind of +3.1 metres per second. This was the longest jump in the world under any conditions since Mike Powell's 8.99 in Sestriere in 1992.
Lapierre competed for Texas A&M University in college, and was the NCAA long jump champion at the 2005 NCAA Outdoor National Track and Field Championships.
In 2011, Lapierre competed in the third season of the Channel Seven television series Australia's Greatest Athlete.

## Achievement s

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing Australia ||||||
| 2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 14th (qf) | 100m | 10.48 w (wind: +3.9 m/s) |
| 2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 2nd | Long jump | 7.74 m (wind: -0.8 m/s) |
| 2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 10th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 40.51 |
| 2006 | Commonwealth Games | Melbourne, Australia | 3rd | Long jump | 8.10 m |
| 2006 | World Cup | Athens, Greece | 8th | Long jump | 7.58 m |
| 2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 16th (q) | Long jump | 7.90 m |
| 2008 | World Athletics Final | Stuttgart, Germany | 1st | Long jump | 8.14 m |
| 2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 4th | Long jump | 8.21 m |
| 2009 | World Athletics Final | Thessaloníki, Greece | 1st | Long jump | 8.33 m w |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 1st | Long jump | 8.17 m |
| 2010 | Continental Cup | Split, Croatia | 7th | Long jump | 7.70 m |
| 2010 | Commonwealth Games | Delhi, India | 1st | Long jump | 8.30 m |
| 2011 | World Championships | Daegu, Korea | 21st (q) | Long jump | 7.89 m |
| 2013 | World Championships | Moscow, Russia | — | Long jump | NM |
| 2014 | World Indoor Championships | Sopot, Poland | 14th (q) | Long jump | 7.76 m |
| 2014 | Commonwealth Games | Glasgow, Scotland | 4th | Long jump | 8.00 m |
| 2015 | World Championships | Beijing, China | 2nd | Long jump | 8.24 m |
| 2016 | World Indoor Championships | Portland, United States | 2nd | Long jump | 8.25 m |
| 2016 | Olympic Games | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 10th | Long jump | 7.87 m |
| 2017 | World Championships | London, United Kingdom | 11th | Long jump | 7.93 m |
| 2018 | Commonwealth Games | Gold Coast, Australia | 12th | Long jump | 7.56 m |

## Coaching career

Lapierre currently coaches in the Huntington Beach, CA, area with the private coaching service CoachUp.