France at the 2012 European Athletics Championships

France was represented by 68 athletes at the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

Medals

Medal	Name	Event	Date
Gold	Éloyse Lesueur	Women's long jump	28 June
Gold	Christophe Lemaitre	Men's 100 m	28 June
Gold	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	Men's 3000 m steeplechase	29 June
Gold	Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida	Heptathlon	30 June
Gold	Renaud Lavillenie	Men's pole vault	1 July
Silver	Jimmy Vicaut	Men's 100 m	28 June
Silver	Florian Carvalho	Men's 1500 m	1 July
Silver	Garfield Darien	110 m hurdles	1 July
Silver	Phara Anacharsis Elea-Mariama Diarra Lenora Guion Firmin Floria Gueï Marie Gayot	4 × 400 m relay	1 July
Bronze	Yannick Fonsat	Men's 400 m	29 June
Bronze	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	Men's 800 m	29 June
Bronze	Emmanuel Biron Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Jimmy Vicaut Ronald Pognon	Men's 4 × 100 m relay	1 July
Bronze	Mickaël Hanany	Men's high jump	29 June
Bronze	Myriam Soumaré	Women's 200 metres	30 June

Results

Men

Track

Event	Athletes	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
100 m	Emmanuel Biron	10.28	8 Q	10.43	13	did not advance
	Christophe Lemaitre	10.14	1 Q	10.14	2 Q	10.09
	Jimmy Vicaut	10.18	2 Q	10.22	3 Q	10.12
200 m	Ben Bassaw	20.73	2 Q	20.91	10	did not advance
400 m	Yannick Fonsat	45.92	5 Q	45.78	5 q	45.82
	Teddy Venel	Disqualified		did not advance
800 m	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	1:48.23	20 Q	1:46.70	4 Q	1:48.83
	Hamid Oualich	1:48.44	23 Q	1:47.14	8	did not advance
	Paul Renaudie	1:47.74	14 Q	1:48.97	18	did not advance
1500 m	Florian Carvalho	3:41.50	4 Q	—		3:46.33
	Gregory Beugnet	3:46.53	18	—		did not advance
5000 m	Yohan Durand	—				13:32.65	4
10000 m	Denis Mayaud	—				29:16.83	17
110 m hurdles	Samuel Coco-Viloin	13.72	17 Q	13.50	9	did not advance
	Garfield Darien	13.46	2 Q	13.15	2 Q	13.20
	Ladji Doucouré	13.96	23 Q	13.66	16	did not advance
400 m hurdles	Adrien Clémenceau	49.84	2 Q	49.80	7 Q	49.70	4
3000 m steeplechase	Nordine Gezzar	8:31.33	8 Q	—		8:36.98	4
	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	8:31.05	7 Q	—		8:33.23
	Noureddine Smaïl	8:41.11	17	—		did not advance
4 × 100 m relay	Emmanuel Biron Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Jimmy Vicaut* Ronald Pognon	39.01	2 Q	—		38.46
4 × 400 m relay	Teddy Venel Naman Keïta* Marc Macedot Mame-Ibra Anne* Toumane Coulibaly Yannick Fonsat	3:06.44	8 q	—		3:03.04	6

*Athletes who run the heats but not the final.

Combined

Decathlon	Event	Florian Geffrouais
		Results	Points	Rank
	100 m	11.19	819	19
	Long jump	No Mark	0
	Shot put	14.31	747	8
	High jump	DNS
	400 m
	110 m hurdles
	Discus
	Pole vault
	Javelin
	1500 m
Final				DNF

Decathlon	Event	Kevin Mayer
		Results	Points	Rank
	100 m	11.10	838	14
	Long jump	No Mark	0
	Shot put	12.25	622	24
	High jump	DNS
	400 m
	110 m hurdles
	Discus
	Pole vault
	Javelin
	1500 m
Final				DNF

Decathlon	Event	Gaël Quérin
		Results	Points	Rank
	100 m	11.17	823	17
	Long jump	7.56	950	1
	Shot put	13.05	670	23
	High jump	1.97	776	9
	400 m	48.20	899	3
	110 m hurdles	14.37	927	5
	Discus	40.32	671	13
	Pole vault	5.00	910	2
	Javelin	53.60	642	14
	1500 m	4:17.29	830	1
Final			8098	5

Field

Event	Athletes	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Long jump	Kafétien Gomis	7.89	12 q	7.88	9
	Frédéric Erin	7.53	26	did not advance
	Salim Sdiri	7.96	9 q	7.48	12
Triple jump	Karl Taillepierre	16.20	18	did not advance
High jump	Mickaël Hanany	2.23	3 q	2.28
	Fabrice Saint-Jean	2.23	13	did not advance
Pole vault	Jérôme Clavier	5.30	12	5.40	10
	Renaud Lavillenie	5.55	1 Q	5.97
	Romain Mesnil	No mark		did not advance
Hammer throw	Quentin Bigot	70.78	24	did not advance
	Jérôme Bortoluzzi	73.46	10 q	74.49	8
	Romain Mesnil	72.84	13	did not advance

Women

Track

Event	Athletes	Heats		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
100 m	Christine Arron	11.55	17	did not advance
200 m	Johanna Danois	23.42	14 q	23.40	11 Q	23.61	8
	Lina Jacques-Sébastien	23.09	6 Q	23.45	12	did not advance
	Myriam Soumaré	23.10	7 Q	23.04	4 Q	23.21
400 m	Marie Gayot	52.46	5 Q	52.17	9	did not advance
	Muriel Hurtis-Houairi	52.11	2 Q	52.13	7 q	54.50	8
1500 m	Hind Dehiba	4:12.79	14	—		did not advance
5000 m	Christine Bardelle	—				15:33.49	12
100 m hurdles	Alice Decaux	13.13	12 Q	13.35	14	did not advance
	Aisseta Diawara	13.10	8 Q	Disqualified		did not advance
	Sandra Gomis	13.63	26	did not advance
400 m hurdles	Phara Anacharsis	58.02	22	did not advance
4 × 100 m relay	Carima Louami Ayodelé Ikuesan Jennifer Galais* Christine Arron Lina Jacques-Sébastien	43.12	3 Q	—		43.44	5
4 × 400 m relay	Phara Anacharsis Elea-Mariama Diarra* Lenora Guion Firmin Floria Gueï Marie Gayot	3:29.03	1 Q	—		3:25.49

*Athletes who run the heats but not the final

Combined

Heptathlon	Event	Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida
		Results	Points	Rank
	100 m hurdles	13.11	1108	1
	High jump	1.77	941	10
	Shot Put	13.48	759	7
	200 m	24.52	931	8
	Long jump	6.42	981	2
	Javelin throw	55.82	973	1
	800 m	2:17.99	851	11
Final			6544

Heptathlon	Event	Blandine Maisonnier
		Results	Points	Rank
	100 m hurdles	13.77	1011	9
	High jump	1.80	978	6
	Shot Put	12.22	676	17
	200 m	24.90	896	12
	Long jump	6.27	934	6
	Javelin throw	38.96	647	13
	800 m	2:16.86	867	8
Final			6009	10

Field

Event	Athletes	Qualification		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Long jump	Éloyse Lesueur	6.66	1 Q	6.81
Triple jump	Françoise Mbango Etone	14.38	3 Q	14.19	8
High jump	Melanie Melfort	1.90	7 q	1.92	6
Pole vault	Vanessa Boslak	4.40	9 q	4.50	6
Shot put	Jessica Cérival	17.15	9 q	17.20	9
Discus throw	Mélina Robert-Michon	61.86	3 Q	60.41	6
Hammer throw	Stéphanie Falzon	68.42	7 q	68.03	6