Pascal Martinot-Lagarde moved up to third on the 2016 60m hurdles world list after his 7.47 win on the second day of the French Indoor Championships at the Stadium Jean Pellez in Clermont Ferrand on Sunday (28).Domestic rival and world leader Dimitri Bascou was missing with a slight hamstring problem but the lack of opposition didn&rsquo;t bother the world indoor silver medallist. Following a 7.52 heat, Martinot-Lagarde continued to fly in the final and clocked 7.47, just 0.02 outside his best set in 2014.Simon Krauss and Thomas Delmestre were distant second and third with respectively 7.73 and 7.74. &ldquo;I made no mistake, but I don&rsquo;t think running 7.45 will be enough to get the world title," said Martinot-Lagarde. "(With Bascou) we could win two medals in Portland."Another potential medal contender for France at the IAAF World Indoor Championships Portland 2016 in three weeks&rsquo; time could be long jumper Kafetien Gomis.Going into the final round, he was lying down in fourth with a relatively modest 7.70m but then uncorked an indoor best of 8.23m to move up to fourth on this year&rsquo;s world indoor list.Teddy Tamgho made a surprise appearance at these championships, his first competition for more than nine months. The 2013 world triple jump champion and world indoor record-holder ruptured his left achilles tendon at the first IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha last May. At his last indoor appearance in Clermont Ferrand five years ago he set what was then the world indoor record of 17.91m. On this occasion, he took the lead in the first round with 16.84m and extended it further when he leapt 16.98m in round four. Harold Correa finished second with 16.91m while European champion Benjamin Compaore completed the podium with 16.88m.&ldquo;Physically, I didn&rsquo;t lose anything but I had five surgeries in four years so coming back in such circumstances is very good for me,&rdquo; said Tamgho.<h3>Lemaitre improves his 200m world lead </h3>One day after winning the 60m, Christophe Lemaitre took the 200m title. Lemaitre needed to sprint hard to beat Mickael-Meba Zeze but Lemaitre won in 20.43, improving his indoor best and his own world-leading mark by 0.01. Zeze was a surprise second in 20.54, taking 0.31 from his previous best.&ldquo;My championships were successful," said Lemaitre. "I need to confirm my form ahead of this summer."Like all the high-profile athletes this weekend, he wore a special bib to mark the forthcoming release of &lsquo;Race&rsquo;, the movie which recounts the life of Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics Games in Berlin. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a legend of athletics and what he&rsquo;s done is incredible," said the 2010 triple European champion. "He has left his mark on history. I&rsquo;m keen on athletics and I look forward to watching the movie."Stella Akakpo, the 2013 European junior 100m champion, celebrated her 22nd birthday on Sunday with an impressive 200m win in 23.27, which is even faster than her outdoor best.Vanessa Boslak, now 33, won the women&rsquo;s pole vault contest with her second-attempt clearance at 4.60m, her best height in four years, before the 2012 world indoor silver medallist failed three times at what would have been an absolute French record of 4.72m.Quentin Guillon for the IAAF

Pascal Martinot-Lagarde moved up to third on the 2016 60m hurdles world list after his 7.47 win on the second day of the French Indoor Championships at the Stadium Jean Pellez in Clermont Ferrand on Sunday (28).

Martinot-Lagarde runs 7.47 at French Indoor Championships

Many IAAF member federations in Europe staged their national indoor championships this weekend and the highlights on Sunday (22) included Renaud Lavillenie going over 6.01m and world-leading marks for long jumper French Kafetien Gomis and Czech sprinter Pawel Maslak.Competing at the French Indoor Championships in Aubiere, a suburb of his home town of Clermont-Ferrand, Lavillenie cleared 6.01m on his second attempt before keeping the crowd enthralled during three unsuccessful ties at a world record height of 6.18m.It was the 11th meeting in his career at which Lavillenie has cleared 6.00m or higher, a tally only bettered by Sergey Bubka who cleared that elusive barrier in no less than 44 contests.&ldquo;Sergey Bubka had cleared 6.00m here back in 1994 so I thought it was about time I got the venue record back for the city,&rdquo; joked Lavillenie after his latest outstanding performance.&ldquo;That 6.01m vault was probably one of the best vaults of my career, I would have cleared 6.10m, maybe even 6.15m with it," he added. "Nowadays, when I try the world record, it&rsquo;s not purely for show. Tonight, I used the stiffest pole I have ever used and when I master it, I can go very high. However, my legs just felt a little tired at the end of the competition."With his national title assured thanks to an earlier effort of 7.91m, European bronze medallist Gomis then put everything together to reach 8.18m for his sixth national title.Among the other leading results in Aubiere on the second day of the championships were Gael Querin&rsquo;s personal best of 6065 when winning the heptathlon and Marie Gayot&rsquo;s 400m victory in 52.14.<h3>Maslak in magnificent form </h3> Maslak, the world indoor 400m champion, showed that he should be one of the athletes getting the biggest cheers at the European Indoor Championships on home soil in two weeks&rsquo; time when he scorched around two circuits of the track in 45.27 at the Czech Indoor Championships in Prague.It was the third-fastest outing ever by a European runner and just 0.03 shy of Maslak's own national record set at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland, last March.On current form, Maslak could challenge Thomas Schonlebe&rsquo;s long-standing European indoor record of 45.05, which has belonged to the German since 1988, at the forthcoming continental championships. Behind Maslak, Jan Tesar improved his best to 46.21 to move up to second on the 2015 European list.Zuzana Hejnova, the world 400m hurdles champion, showed she was slowly getting back to her best form after injury prematurely ended her season last summer when she took the 400m title without the barriers in 52.76. Denisa Rosolova won the 200m in 23.74 while there was also an entertaining men&rsquo;s shot put with Jan Marcell, better known as a discus thrower, coming out on top with 20.71m ahead of Tomas Stanek, who was second with 20.66m and European indoor bronze medallist Ladislav Prasil back in third with 20.51m.Pablo Torrijos became the first Spanish triple jumper to surpass 17 metres when he reached 17.03m at the Spanish Indoor Championships in Antequera, which was briefly a European-leading mark.European high jump champion Ruth Beitia won a record 14th Spanish indoor title, clearing 1.95m.<h3>Evora's best mark for four years </h3>Portugal&rsquo;s Nelson Evora, the 2008 Olympic triple jump champion, surpassed Torrijos as the European leader later on Sunday in Pombal when he leapt 17.19m at the Portuguese Indoor Clubs Championships, his best result since 2011.Patrizia Mamona won the women&rsquo;s triple jump with 14.10m, while Sara Moreira won the 3000m in 8:56.83.At the German Indoor Championships in Karlsruhe, Rebekka Haase ran a European-leading 200m time of 23.12 while silver medallist Nadine Gonska, who clocked 23.30, also set a personal best. Robin Erewa won the men&rsquo;s race in 20.70 while Cindy Roleder ran 7.99 to take the women&rsquo;s 60m hurdles title; world leader Homiyu Tesfaye reeled in Florian Orth right on the line to win a tactical but entertaining 1500m in 3:41.68 to Orth&rsquo;s 3:41.85.Karol Zalewski completed a sprint double on the second day of the Polish Indoor Championships in Torun with two personal bests: a European-leading 20.66 over 200m and 46.25 in the 400m.At the Italian Indoor Championships in Padua, the prodigious Federica Del Buono was beaten by Giulia Viola, who pulled away over the last 300m to win the women&rsquo;s 3000m in 8:56.23, with Del Buono second in a national under-23 record of 9:01.19.In Tampere at the Finnish Indoor Championships, former European 100m hurdles junior champion Nooralotta Neziri again improved her national 60m hurdles record, this time to 7.98.In Budapest the star performer on the second day of the Hungarian Indoor Championships was high jumper Barbara Szabo, who improved her personal best to 1.93m.Phil Minshull for the IAAF &nbsp;&nbsp;

Many IAAF member federations in Europe staged their national indoor championships this weekend and the highlights on Sunday (22) included Renaud Lavillenie going over 6.01m and world-leading marks for long jumper French Kafetien Gomis and Czech sprinter Pawel Maslak.

Martinot-Lagarde runs 7.47 at French Indoor Championships

Lavillenie 6.01m, world leads for Gomis and Maslak on second day of national indoor champs