Athletics in France is governed by Fédération française d'athlétisme founded on 20 November 1920.^[1]

Event	Performance	Athlete	Venue	Date
Pole vault	3.69	Fernand Gonder	Paris	23 June 1904
Pole vault	3.74	Fernand Gonder	Bordeaux	6 August 1905
10,000 metres	30:58:8	Jean Bouin	Paris	16 November 1911
Hours	19.219 km	Jean Bouin	Stockholm	6 July 1913
20 km race walk	1:37:57	Émile Anthoine	Paris	13 July 1913
800 metres	1:50:6	Séraphin Martin	Paris	14 July 1928
1500 metres	3:49:2	Jules Ladoumègue	Paris	5 October 1930
100 metres	10:0	Roger Bambuck	Sacramento	20 June 1968
110 metres hurdles	13:0	Guy Drut	Berlin	22 August 1975
Pole vault	5.77 m 5.82 m 5.91 m	Philippe Houvion Pierre Quinon Thierry Vigneron	Paris Cologne Rome	17 July 1980 28 August 1983 31 August 1984
4 x 100 metres relay	37:79	Max Morinière Daniel Sangouma Jean-Charles Trouabal Bruno Marie-Rose	Split	1 September 1990
Pole vault	6.16 m	Renaud Lavillenie	Donetsk	15 February 2014
50 kilometres race walk	3:32:33	Yohann Diniz	Zürich	15 August 2014

The lists are updated to 22 February 2013,^[2] and regards to the 21 individuals Olympic specialities. For high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump and shot put performance also affects indoor competitions (measures are identified by (i) in the tables).

Men # Athlete Born Performance Venue Date 1 Renaud Lavillenie 1986 6.16 m (i) Donetsk 15 February 2014 2 Jean Galfione 1971 6.00 m (i) Maebashi 6 March 1999 3 Romain Mesnil 1977 5.95 m Castres 6 August 2003 4 Philippe Collet 1963 5.94 m (i) Grenoble 10 March 1990 5 Thierry Vigneron 1960 5.91 m Rome 31 August 1984 6 Ferenc Salbert 1963 5.90 m (i) Grenoble 14 March 1987 Pierre Quinon 1962 5.90 m Nice 16 July 1985 8 Alain Andji 1974 5.85 m Bonneuil-sur-Marne 18 May 1997 9 Jérôme Clavier 1983 5.81 m (i) Villeurbanne 22 January 2011 10 Khalid Lachheb 1975 5.80 m Lausanne 25 August 1998 Gérald Baudouin 1975 5.80 m Villeneuve d'Ascq 8 July 1994

Women

• Fédération française d'athlétisme
• French records in athletics

• Fédération française d'athlétisme official site