Kevin Mayer still out of form.
The decathlon world record holder, who had not hung a bib since August 2023, did not finish his 60 m this Saturday during the French Indoor Championships in Miramas (Bouches-du-Rhône) due to a hamstring soreness.
Double world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist, Kevin Mayer was competing in Bouches-du-Rhône for his first competition since the World Championships in Budapest, where he retired last summer due to a painful Achilles tendon. .
Engaged in the heptathlon, he was to take part in four of the seven events this weekend.
“It’s just a soreness”
But during the first of them, the 60 m, he stopped his effort after about forty meters and said he felt a “strain in his ischio”.
“I'm working a lot at the moment and I stupidly suffered a little sprain on Wednesday walking in a hole,” he then explained.
“I came here for training and I told myself that even if I only did 40m, it would be 40m in the legs.
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“It's just a stiffness but as it's the ischio which has already broken three times in my career, when I have a stiffness, it's difficult to go all out,” he added .
“But I made four starts before the race, one start there… It’s a very good session.
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Luc Brewin achieves the best time in the 60m heptathlon with Maxime Moitié-Charnois, with 6.93
Makenson Gletty a little further
Kevin Mayer did not finish the race #CFAthlé
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He should participate later in the morning in the weight competition and on Sunday in the pole vault, but should not start the 60m hurdles as initially planned.
The 32-year-old athlete has not completed a decathlon since his world title in July 2022 and has therefore not yet achieved the minimums for the Paris Olympic Games.
He was due to do a decathlon in Australia in December but preferred to postpone the deadline until the end of March in San Diego in the United States.