I found this info in an iaaf website story on Lapierre. I’m not sure what it tells us. The other thing is he only recently lengthened his runup to try to get more speed, so maybe his coach had him working off a shorter (much shorter) approach because he felt Fabrice didn’t have the specific strength to jump off a faster approach until very recently, but they’ve been together since 2003…
by the way, the stats on Lapierre are that he weighs 66kg and he is 180cm tall.
…“.Lapierre is nevertheless extremely quick and his 105kg clean suggests he has the power-to-weight ratio to make good his bid for a medal at the World Championships in Berlin in August.”