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“I can’t believe you’re gone, Shawn. Rest in peace, my friend,” reacted on Instagram Renaud Lavillenie, bronze medalist at the same World Championships in Beijing. During the summer of 2015, the pole vaulter with red hair and a childish face had barely celebrated his 21st birthday. “I couldn’t have asked for a better performance! », he then whispered, “a little surprised” to have won under the noses of the big names in the discipline, with a jump of 5.90 m on his first attempt.
