1. Jean Galfione was born on 9 June 1971 and is a French retired pole vaulter.
18 Facts About Jean Galfione
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Jean Galfione started pole vaulting as part of the decathlon when he was 13 years old and a member of the Stade francais sports club.
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Jean Galfione was talent-spotted by Maurice Houvion, who was a coach at INSEP.
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Jean Galfione won six successive French National Athletics Championships outdoor pole vault titles at the senior level from 1993 to 1998.
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Jean Galfione won three French National Athletics Championships indoor pole vault titles at the senior level in 1990,1993 and 1994.
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Jean Galfione achieved the pinnacle of his pole vault career by winning the pole vault gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
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Jean Galfione had cleared 5.86 m on his first attempt, whereas Trandenkov had two successive misses at 5.86 m and chose to use his third and final attempt to clear 5.92 m instead.
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On 6 March 1999, Jean Galfione won the 1999 World Indoor Championships pole vault title, clearing 6.00 m in the final.
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Later in that competition, Galfione had three consecutive misses at 6.05 m Galfione thus became the first Frenchman to clear 6 metres or more indoors or outdoors in the pole vault.
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Jean Galfione became only the fourth pole vaulter, after Sergey Bubka, Rodion Gataullin and Maksim Tarasov, to clear 6 metres or more indoors.
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Jean Galfione held the French national outdoor pole vault record from 1993 to 2009.
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From 2000 to 2002, Jean Galfione was plagued with numerous injuries.
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Jean Galfione underwent surgery on a collapsed lung suffered during an interclub competition in Paris in May 2000.
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Jean Galfione participated in the 2000 Olympics pole vault event in Sydney.
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Jean Galfione worked as an athletics commentator and consultant for Canal Plus and presented documentaries for the French television channel, Voyage.
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Jean Galfione's father was a fencer and his mother was a gymnast who was a French national junior gymnastics champion.
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Jean Galfione has one brother and one sister, and is a nephew of an Olympic medal-winning fencer, Jean-Claude Magnan.
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Jean Galfione and Clothilde Magnan, Jean-Claude Magnan's daughter and who was a fencer, are thus first cousins.