Andrei Tivontchik

Andrei Tivontchik (White Russian Андрэй Цівончык, Andrej Ziwontschyk; born July 13, 1970 in Gorky ) is a former German pole vaulter and Olympic Belarusian origin of third parties.

He grew up in the Byelorussian SSR and adopted in 1989 as a 19 - year-old with 5.40 m fourth place in the Junior World leaderboard in the pole vault one. With the help of sponsors, he moved to Germany in 1993 and was naturalized, so that he could start at the European Championships in Helsinki in 1994 in the German team ( sixth place in the pole vault: 5.70 m). Last year his Olympic medal success in 1995, he increased the German record to 5.80m and won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona. In 1996, he reached with his 5.95m personal best and won at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in the bronze medal.

His hopes of a place in the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney, he had to drop due to a knee surgery. In 2001 he retired from active competition. He became a coach and went as national coach for pole vault the emirate of Qatar. In 2004 he returned to Germany and became the pole vault coach at the national training center in Zweibrücken. As of November 2005, he was DLV pole vault national coach of the male U- 20th Since November 2008 he has been national coach for women.

Tivontchik launched in 1993 for the LAZ Zweibrücken and from 1999 for the USC Mainz. In its competition time, he was 1.84 m tall and weighed 78 kg.