Marie-Julie Bonnin


Marie-Julie Bonnin 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].

Career

From Bordeaux, as the French junior champion, Bonnin won the silver medal at the 2019 European Athletics U20 Championships held in Boras.
In July 2022, Bonnin won the pole vault at the Open de France. Bonnin qualified for the final at the 2022 European Athletics Championships held in Munich in August 2022. She finished sixth in the final setting a new personal best height of 4.55 metres. In 2022, she was also the gold medalist at the French U23 Championships, and silver medalist at the French Elite Championships.
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.
In July 2024, she improved her personal best three times to clear 4.70 metres in Sotteville-lès-Rouen. She subsequently competed in the pole vault at the Athletics at the [2024 Summer Olympics – Women's pole vault|2024 Paris Olympics], placing eleventh overall.
Bonnin was selected for the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn where she won the bronze medal with a 4.70 metre clearance. 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.
She was a finalist at the 2025 [World Athletics Championships – Women's pole vault|2025 World Athletics Championships] in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, placing eighth overall.
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.