Word: vigneron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frenchmen and two Americans argued it out in the last stages of " the pole vault. Only Mike Tully of the U.S. deigned to try at 18 ft. 6½ in. and casually cleared. Pierre Quinon of France went over comfortably at 18 ft. 8¼ in., while Countryman Thierry Vigneron and the other American, Earl Bell, fell out. Tully passed. Again on the first vault, Quinon surmounted 18 ft. 10¼ in. Tully passed once more. But they both failed the next height, and therefore Quinon, 22, won. "I am young and learning," he said, "perhaps how to lose mostly...
...fiberglass in the '60s. Since then, the record has been improved by leaps and sproings. But the 19-ft. ¾in. outdoor mark of that aptly named Russian Vladimir Polyakov has been posted over a year and a half now, and only Frenchman Thierry Vigneron (19 ft. ¼ in.) and Olson have reached such heights...
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