Anthony Ammirati

Anthony Ammirati (born 16 July 2003) is a French athlete who specializes in pole vaulting. He was the gold medalist at the World Athletics U20 Championships in 2022.

Career In June 2021, he set a new national record under-20 with in Salon-de-Provence. The following month, he won the gold medal at the U20 European championships in Tallinn with a jump of 5.64m.

During the U20 world championships in Cali, he became world champion with a jump of at his second attempt. He then improved his personal best with . On August 31, 2022, he broke the French junior pole vault record for the third time in Sankt-Wendel with a jump of . He became the second performer in the history of the category behind Armand Duplantis, who vaulted in 2018.

Ammirati qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics; however, he failed to advance to the finals. Subsequently, a video of one of his attempts where he knocked down the crossbar with his penis went viral. Following this, he was offered $250,000 by the Vice President of the pornographic website CamSoda to create a webcam show. Ammirati was listed by Variety as one of the most viral athletes of the 2024 Summer Olympics, alongside Yusuf Dikeç and Stephen Nedoroscik.

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