Career
Lapierre placed 4th at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, Germany, behind another Australian, Mitchell Watt, who took the bronze. He jumped 8.57 metres at the same competition, but there was too much wind (+36 metres per second). On April 18, 2010, at the Australian Athletics Championship in Perth, Lapierre grabbed the national title with a last-round jump of 8.78, again with an illegal tailwind of +3.1 metres per second.
This was the longest jump in the world under any conditions since Iván Pedroso"s 8.96 in Sestriere in 1995.
In 2011, Lapierre competed in the third season of the Channel Seven television series Australia"s Greatest Athlete.