Elijah Pasquier
French high jumper
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Elijah Pasquier (born 29 June 2006) is a French high jumper. He won the gold medal at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships.[1]
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| Born | 29 June 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Stade sottevillais 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | High jump: 2.25m (Tampere, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
He is from Evreux in Normandy.[2] An old member of Évreux Athletics Club, he was coached by Victor Moussel and Romain Lecomte. Pasquier won the French U18 high jump title in 2022 with a jump of 2.05 metres, before being selected for the French team for his international debut; and winning a silver medal at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, in July 2022.[3]
He won gold in the high jump at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor, Slovenia, with a jump of 2.12 metres, 3cm clear of the rest of the field.[4][5]
Pasquier cleared a new lifetime best of 2.21m in July 2025 in Thonon-les-Bains.[6][7] The following month, whilst competing in the high jump at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, he won the gold medal with a new lifetime best and French under-20 national best clearance of 2.25 metres to win ahead of Otis Poole of Great Britain.[8][9][10] In September 2025, he was nominated for the European Athletics male rising star award.[11]