France was represented by 68 athletes at the2012 European Athletics Championships inHelsinki, Finland.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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