Alain Blondel

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Alain Blondel (born December 7, 1962 in Le Petit-Quevilly in the Seine-Maritime department ) is a former French athlete who became the third French decathlon champion after Ignace Heinrich and Christian Plaziat .

Career

Blondel's first final placement in an international championship succeeded Blondel at the European Championships in Stuttgart in 1986 , when he finished eighth with 8185 points. He was one place behind his compatriot Plaziat. A year later at the World Championships in Rome in 1987 , Blondel finished seventh with 8178 points. At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , Blondel finished sixth with 8268 points, just 60 points behind Canadian Dave Steen in third place.

At the European Championships in 1990 in Split, Blondel took fifth place with 8216 points, with all all-rounders placed before him being younger than Blondel. In Tokyo at the 1991 World Championships Blondel reached 13th place with 7848 points. 8031 ​​points and 15th place at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona indicated the end of his career.

In Stuttgart at the 1993 World Championships , Blondel was back in the world class. With 8444 points better than ever before, he finished fifth. He was 104 points behind the bronze medal of the German Paul Meier . The heptathlon was held as an official competition for the first time at the European Indoor Championships in Paris in 1994. Plaziat won with 6268 points ahead of the Swede Henrik Dagård and Alain Blondel with 6084 points. In the summer of the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, Blondel won with a new personal best of 8453 points, 91 points ahead of Dagård.

The 1.86 m tall blondel, who weighed 80 kg in the competition, was, along with Plaziat, the figurehead of the decathlon meeting in Talence , which established itself as the end of the season for the world-class all-rounders during both careers. At the end of the 1994 season, the long jumper Heike Drechsler also competed in Talence and achieved a world best of the year 13 years after her last heptathlon. Alain Blondel subsequently acted as Heike Drechsler's trainer, and from 2003 also officially. Alain Blondel and Heike Drechsler lived together in Karlsruhe since 1997 . At the end of 2007, Blondel and Drechsler separated after a twelve-year partnership.

Top performances

  • 100 meters: 10.89 seconds (1990)
  • Long jump: 7.53 meters (1994) in the hall 7.56 meters (1987)
  • Shot put: 14.06 meters (1993)
  • High jump: 2.04 meters (1984)
  • 400 meters: 47.44 seconds (1988)
  • 110 meter hurdles: 14.07 seconds (1986)
  • Discus throw: 47.28 meters (1990)
  • Pole vault: 5.40 meters (1993)
  • Javelin throw: 66.52 meters (1994)
  • 1500 meters: 4: 04.76 minutes (1994)
  • Decathlon: 8453 points (1994)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Heike Drechsler: Liebes-Aus after 12 years ( Memento from December 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )