Zackaria Dia
French pole vaulter (born 2008)
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Zackaria Dia (born 24 May 2008) is a French pole vaulter. He won the silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships having won the gold medal at the 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival and becoming the French junior record holder that year. In 2026, he set a new French U20 record and moved to second on the world under-20 list behind Mondo Duplantis.[1]
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| Born | 24 May 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Pole vault | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Pole vault: 5.82 m (2026) NU20B | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
A member of the Pont-Audemer Athletic Club, he took up pole vault at the age of 12 years-old, when he began to be coached by Philippe Labbé. He was educated at Vocational High School Risle-Seine in Pont-Audemer.[2]
In 2024 at the age of 16 years-old, Dia cleared five metres for the first time in Dourdan, with a jump of 5.03 m. Soon after, in Le Havre, he achieved the third-best European performance U18 performance of the season by clearing 5.14 metres. Then, in December 2024 in Normandy, Dia cleared a personal best and moved to 1 cm of the French national under-18 record, with a clearance of 5.31 metres.[3]
Dia became the French junior record holder with a jump of 5.34 metres on February 1, 2025, in Caen.[4] He won the gold medal in the pole vault at the 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival in Skopje with a jump of 5.20 metres.[5][6] He was the youngest athlete in the final at 17 years-old as he won the silver medal behind Axel Rogö of Sweden in the pole vault at the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland in August 2025, with a clearance of 5.40 metres, having entered the championships with only the fifth best personal best.[7][8]
Dia set a new personal best of 5.62 metres in Caen in January 2026. He placed fifth with 5.60 metres at the senior French Indoor Athletics Championships in Aubiere. Dia cleared a personal best 5.70 metres in Rouen on 7 March 2026.[9][10][11] In June, Dia added 12 centimetres to his personal best to improve the French U20 record previously held by Anthony Ammirati and move to second on the world U20 all-time list behind Mondo Duplantis, with a clearance of 5.82 metres at the Envol Trophée in France.[12] He had a top-ten finish on 28 June at the 2026 Meeting de Paris.[13]