Jules Pommery
Jules Pommery is a French athlete who competes in the long jump. He was a bronze medalist at the 2022 European Athletics Championships.
Career
Pommery competed at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships in Borås, Sweden. He won the long jump with a personal best 7.83m.He won the long jump title at the 2022 French Athletics Championships, with a jump of 7.86 metres. At the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, in August 2022, Pommery initially was given fourth place on count-back after a jump of 8.06m but following a protest from the French Federation a previous jump by British jumper and silver medalist Jacob Fincham-Dukes was ruled illegal and relegated him to fifth place and promoted Pommery to third after the event. It was the second time Pommery had ever leapt over 8 metres after previously setting a personal best of 8.17m in May, 2022 in Athens, Greece, a mark that was a new French U23 record.
He retained his long jump title at the 2023 French Athletics Championships in Albi, with a jump of 8.12 metres. He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August 2023, but recorded no mark in qualifying and did not proceed to the final. He competed in the long jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, jumping 7.23 metres and not qualifying for the final.
He competed in the long jump at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, where he jumped 7.72 metres but did not progress to the final. He finished third at the French Athletics Championships long jump competition in Angers, in June 2024, making a best jump of 7.70 metres.