Guillaume Thierry

Guillaume Thierry
nation	Mauritius
birthday	September 15, 1986
size	184 cm
Weight	82 kg
Career
discipline	Decathlon
status	active
Medal table
Africa Games silver 2011 Maputo 7481 P gold 2015 Brazzaville 7591 P  African Championships bronze 2010 Nairobi 7100 P bronze 2012 Porto Novo 6995 P silver 2014 Marrakech 7312 P African Athletics Combination Championships bronze 2009 Reduit 6968 P silver 2011 Réduit 7444 P silver 2012 Bambous 7356 P gold 2013 Réduit 7049 P silver 2014 Bambous 7537 P  Games of the Francophonie bronze 2013 Nice 7511 P Indian Ocean Island Games gold 2007 Antananarivo 7283 P
last change: September 16, 2015

Guillaume Thierry (born September 15, 1986 ) is a Mauritian athlete who competes in the decathlon .

He has been part of the African elite in this discipline for several years , became the African junior champion in 2005 and then collected several silver and bronze medals at the three most important major events on the continent. On September 12, 2011, Thierry set a new national record with 7481 points at the Pan-African Games in the Estádio do Zimpeto in the Mozambican capital Maputo .

In 2006 he traveled to the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and was able to fight for eighth place. About half a year later he reached sixth place in the African Athletics Championships held in Bambous on his home island . The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi were not as successful for him as the previous ones; in the end he finished twelfth in the overall classification.

In his youth, Thierry also competed as a pole vault specialist . With jumped 4.30 meters he reached the 13th place at the World Athletics Championships in 2003 in Sherbrooke . Three years later, in Bambous, 4.20 meters reached fifth place at the 2006 African Championships.

Web links

Commons : Guillaume Thierry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Guillaume Thierry in the database of World Athletics (English)