| Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
| World Championships | ||||
| 2 | 4 x 100m Relay | 2011 | Daegu, KOR | 38.20 |
| 3 | 200m | 2011 | Daegu, KOR | 19.80 |
| 4 | 100m | 2011 | Daegu, KOR | 10.19 |
| 8 | 4 x 100m Relay | 2009 | Berlin, GER | 39.21 |
| Quarterfinal | 100m | 2009 | Berlin, GER | DSQ |
| European Championships | ||||
| 1 | 100m | 2012 | Helsinki, FIN | 10.09 |
| 1 | 100m | 2010 | Barcelona, ESP | 10.11 |
| 1 | 200m | 2010 | Barcelona, ESP | 20.37 |
| 1 | 4 x 100m Relay | 2010 | Barcelona, ESP | 38.11 |
| 3 | 4 x 100m Relay | 2012 | Helsinki, FIN | 38.46 |
| Diamond League | ||||
| 2 | 200m | 2011 | Paris Saint-Denis, FRA | 20.21 |
| 3 | 100m | 2012 | Paris Saint-Denis, FRA | 10.08 |
| 3 | 100m | 2012 | Rome, ITA | 10.04 |
| 3 | 100m | 2011 | Lausanne, SUI | 9.95 |
| 3 | 100m | 2011 | Rome, ITA | 10.00 |
| 5 | 100m | 2011 | Monaco, MON | 10.03 |
| 5 | 100m | 2010 | Paris Saint-Denis, FRA | 10.09 |
| World Challenge | ||||
| 4 | 100m | 2010 | Rieti, ITA | 9.97 |
Hobbies
Video games, playing football with his friends, and supporting French football team Olympique Marseille. (athle.com, 01 Jan 2008)
Occupation
Athlete
Education
Electrical Engineering - University of Savoie, Annecy, FRA
Language(s) spoken
French
Club name
AS Aix les Bains, Aix-les-Bains, FRA
Coach
Pierre Carraz (FRA) (sportetstyle.fr, 03 Feb 2012)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
He began training in 2005 after joining the club AS Aix les Bains. (athle.com, 01 Jan 2008)
Reason for taking up this sport
When he was 15 he went to a local sports festival and came across a stand where kids could try running over 50m. His debut effort made such an impression that the athletics club AS Aix les Bains immediately signed him up. (guardian.co.uk, 2010)
Most memorable sporting achievement
Becoming champion of France in the 60m event. (athle.com, 01 Jan 2008)
Hero
"It was only in 2008 that I began watching athletics, old footage of the champions. I wanted to know what happened in the past so I looked up the old videos of old world championships. I never had an athletics hero, because I didn't know any of them." (guardian.co.uk, 2011)
Awards
At the European championships in 2010 he became the first sprinter to win three European gold medals. (guardian.co.uk, 2011)
In 2010, aged 20,he was the third fastest sprinter in history for his age group, having run faster than Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay. (guardian.co.uk, 2010)
General
WORKING ON STARTS FOR LONDON 2012
He says that he only started lifting weights in 2010, and 18 months out from the 2012 Olympic Games believed that with more bulk and improved starts his times could come down. "For the Olympic Games, I think I have to work on the start, but I have got 18 months to improve and to gain experience in international competitions, so I'm confident." (telegraph.co.uk, 18 Mar 2011)
FASTEST 'WHITE' SPRINTER
When he ran the 100m in 9.98sec at the 2010 French national championships, French newspaper Le Monde labelled him the 'first white man' to break the 10-second barrier. "I don't consider myself a phenomenon. It's true that I am the first white guy to run under 10 seconds, that I am the first to win three [European] gold medals in the sprints. All of those achievements happened very quickly," he said, adding that he wasn't prepared at first for the intense media attention that followed. He also dismissed the "old stereotypes" of race in athletics. "I have lots of friends who are black or mixed race or Arab, and we never talk about colour or have these kind of conversations about superiority of one race. In my eyes, sprinting has never been a matter of skin colour. It is a superfluous matter."
(guardian.co.uk, 26 Jul 2010; telegraph.co.uk, 2011)
