Antoine Richard
Antoine Richard ( born September 8, 1960 in Fontainebleau ) is a French former track and field athlete.
The 1.74 m wide and 63 kg Richard started for the CS Fontainebleau and was in the 1980s, to the best sprinters of France. He was five times national champion in the 100 -meter run (1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986 ) and once in the 200 -meter run (1984). In addition, he won between 1982 and 1986 the fifth consecutive national championship titles in the 60 - meter dash in the hall. In 1986, he improved Roger Bambucks almost 18 years old French record in the 100 -meter run by two hundredths of a second to 10.09 s
At the Olympic Games in 1980 Richard won jointly with Pascal Barré, Patrick Barré and Hermann Panzo the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay team behind the teams from the Soviet Union and Poland. It remained his most important international success, although he still reached some more Final placements in the relay in the following years: 7th place at the European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens, 8th place at the World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki, 6th place at the Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles and 4th place at the European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart. He also won at the Indoor Athletics Championships 1985 in Piraeus, the silver medal in the 60 - meter race after he had each occupied the fourth place in the two previous sweeps.