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Marion Fiack

Personal information
Nationality	France
Born	13 October 1992 (1992-10-13) (age 32) Reims
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Event	Pole vault
Club	Thionville
Coached by	Joël Mertz, Philippe d'Encausse
Achievements and titles
National finals	French Pole Vault Record at 4.71m

Marion Fiack (born 13 October 1992 in Reims) is a French athlete, a specialist in the Pole vault. She holds the France record for this discipline with a vault of 4.71 m. She also holds the French junior record and French Under 23s record with vaults respectively of 4.36 m and 4.61 m.

Biographie

Youth

Born at Reims into a family of athletes, including a grandfather who played professional basketball, Marion Fiack was, at first, primarily dedicated to the middle distance and combined events.

First coached by Joël Mertz at Thionville, she won her first cap for France in 2009, at the European Youth Olympic Festival at Tampere. In 2010, she vaulted for the first time over 4 m in the pole vault by performing a vault of 4.12 m at Forbach, which was a regional record. She qualified for the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics at Moncton, but did not proceed past the qualifying rounds.

In 2011, she left Lorraine to settle in Clermont-Ferrand. Trained by Philippe EncausseIt, she beat, on 10 December 2011, the French junior record with a vault of 4.36m in a competition won by the British woman, Holly Bradshaw, in front of Vanessa Boslak, who held the previous record.

Under 23s

Competing in the Senior level competition, Marion Fiack became Indoors 2013 vice-champion of France with a vault of 4.35 meters, being beaten that day by Marion Lotout. Outdoors, she placed 5th in Under 23s European Championships at Tampere.

She started the 2014 season with a personal best of 4.51 m at Aubière. On 18 January 2014 at Orleans, Marion Fiack vaulted 4.61 m, improving the French Under 23 record, and temporarily seizing the best world performance of the year tied with the British Holly Bradshaw. In February she was again vice-champion of France behind Marion Lotout (4.51 m against 4.56 m).

She continued, outdoors, with a victory at Pézenas in late May by vaulting 4.55 m. At the French championships she took second place, beaten by Vanessa Boslak. At the European Championships from Zurich, she failed to reach the final, having to settle for 4.35 m.

2015 season  : France Senior record

On 10 January 2015 at Aubière, she improved 10 cm to clear 4.71 m. This thus beats the France record formerly held by Vanessa Boslak (4.70 m since 28 June 2006) and seized temporarily the best world performance of the year. Her Indoor season is successful winning the champion of France title at Aubiere where she vaulted 4.60 m. She managed the same performance in early March at European Indoor Championships, Enabling her to qualify for the final where she will repeat this performance (5th with 4.50 m).

Spending some time in the United States in order to prepare for the summer season, she injured her hand. She cannot return to her best and must end this season, which deprives her of the chance to participate in the World Championships.

2016 : retour

A little lack of confidence, Marion returned to competition at the meeting at Orleans with only a vault of 4.13 m. The following week, she managed 4.38 m at Rouen where she took fourth in the competition.

Prize list

Records

Notes and references

1. "Record de France pour Marion Fiack". www.sport.fr. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
2. L'Équipe (ed.). "Marion Fiack fait fort". www.lequipe.fr. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
3. "Biographie". mosellesport.fr. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
4. "Marion FIACK en équipe de France !". perchelorraine.over-blog.com. 30 June 2009. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
5. "Marion FIACK (ESTY) : 4m12 à la perche – nv Record de Lorraine". liguelorraine.athle.com. 1 July 2010. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
6. "Championnats du Monde Juniors Moncton 2010 - Résumé 23 juillet". athle.fr. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
7. "Les records de France tombent en cette fin d'année". ccathle11.blogspot.fr. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
8. "Marion presque au sommet..." dahlir43.fr. 18 February 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
9. "9th European Athletics U23 Championships". european-athletics-statistics.org. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
10. Laurence Klein (24 January 2014). "La petite perle de la perche : Marion Fiack au plus haut niveau". cd57.athle.com. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
11. "France en salle. Marion Lotout sacrée à la perche". letelegramme.fr. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
12. "Fiack : " Je pense au record de France "". republicain-lorrain.fr. 28 May 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
13. Phil Minshull (10 January 2015). "Lavillenie starts the year with 5.80m, French record for Fiack". iaaf.org. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
14. "Perche : Record de France pour Marion Fiack (4m71)". eurosport.fr. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
15. "Perche : Marion Fiack finit cinquième". franceinfo.fr. 8 March 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
16. François Bellot (1 July 2015). "Fiack veut reprendre son envol". lanouvellerepublique.fr. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
17. "Marion Fiack jette l'éponge". estrepublicain.fr. 6 July 2015. Retrieved 17 October 2015.

External links

• Marion Fiack at World Athletics
• profile Marion Fiack on the site of the French Athletics Federation

• 1992 births
• Living people
• French female pole vaulters
• Sportspeople from Reims
• 21st-century French sportswomen