Andrei Tivontschik
Andrei Tivontchik ( Belarusian Андрэй Цівончык , Andrej Ziwontschyk ; born July 13, 1970 in Gorki , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ) is a former German pole vaulter of Belarusian origin and Olympic knight.
Athletic career
He grew up in the Belarusian SSR and in 1989, at the age of 19, he took fourth place on the junior world best in pole vault with a height of 5.40 m.
In 1992 he became Belarusian champion with a height of 5.20 m. With the help of sponsors, he moved to Germany in 1993 and was naturalized so that he could start in the German team at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki (sixth place in the pole vault: 5.70 m). In the previous year of his Olympic medal success, in 1995, he increased the German record to 5.80 m and won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Barcelona . In 1996 he reached his personal best with 5.95 m and won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta .
He had to drop his hopes for a start at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney because of a knee operation.
In 2001 he retired from active sports. When he competed, he was 1.84 m tall and weighed 78 kg.
Club affiliations
Tivontschik started in 1993 for the LAZ Zweibrücken and from 1999 for the USC Mainz .
Further career path
After retiring from active sport in 2001, Tivontchik became a coach and went to the Emirate of Qatar as the national coach for pole vaults . In 2004 he returned to Germany and became a pole vault coach at the national base in Zweibrücken . From November 2005 he was the national DLV pole vault coach for the male U-20s. From November 2008 he was national coach of the women's pole vault. Since 2018 he has been the national coach of the men's pole vault.
Web links
- Andrei Tivontchik in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Entry on the website of the LAZ Zweibrücken
Individual evidence
- ↑ Athletics champion of Belarus
- ^ Great honor for Andrei Tivontchik website of the LAZ Zweibrücken, accessed on August 15, 2013.
- ↑ Peter Schmitt: Personnel changes in the DLV trainer team at: Leichtathletik.de, November 13, 2017, accessed November 13, 2017
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Tivontschik, Andrei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Цівончык, Андрэй; Zivontschyk, Andrei; Tivontchik, Andrei |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pole vaulter and Olympic medalist of Belarusian origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gorky , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union |