Thierry Vigneron

Thierry Vigneron ( born March 9, 1960 in Gennevilliers ) is a French former track and field athlete and former world record holder in the pole vault.

Overall Vigneron presented five times a world record. For the first time he succeeded on June 1, 1980, when he jumped 5.75 meters high in Colombes (France). Only 28 days later he confirmed this brand in Lille. In June 1980, followed, after he had lost in the meantime the world record at the Poland Władysław Kozakiewicz, 5.80 meters. Just six days later, however, Vigneron again lost the world record. On September 1, 1983, he finally jumped at the Golden Gala in Rome 5.83 meters. The Year in 1983, was then the only year that went with Vigneron as world record holder over. However, it was not his last. At the Golden Gala 1984 he set a new world record as last year. With 5.91 meters, he topped Serhiy Bubka (USSR ), who had 18 days previously skipped 5.90 meters. Bubka put then but still in the same competition a stakes and the world record to 5.94 meters. After Vigneron succeeded only Bubka, set a world record in the pole vault, last 6.14 meters in 1994.

Vigneron was the first pole vaulter, who had set the bar at 6.00 meters. This height he chose after he had scored on 1 September 1983 the world record at the Golden Gala in Rome in 1983 with 5.83 meters, as the next level. In the six meters, however, he failed in all three attempts.

Other successes celebrated Vigneron at international championships. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, he won bronze. The Olympic Stadium in Rome also proved after the two world records also at the World Championships in 1987 as a good place. Here the Frenchman silver medal behind Serhiy Bubka.

1996 Vigneron adopted from active sport and dedicated to Aquitaine in youth work.