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Athletics: death at 67 of Jean-Hervé Stievenart, historic figure of the French triple jump

2022-06-28T10:08:42.851Z


Former athlete and triple jump champion, but also former coach of the France team, Jean-Hervé Stievenart died at 67.


There are sometimes people who dedicate their life to a single passion.

Considered the master of the triple jump, the former triple jump specialist Jean-Hervé Stievenart died at the age of 67 following cancer, the French Athletics Federation confirmed to AFP on Tuesday.

Jean-Hervé Stievenart had trained at Insep for several decades the great French names in the discipline, in particular Serge Hélan and Pierre Camara in the 1980s and 90s, then more recently Teddy Tamgho and Benjamin Compaoré, both now coaches (Compaoré continues to compete at a high level).

"He will not leave a void through his knowledge and his knowledge but mainly through the man he was, appreciated by all, smiling, funny, intelligent, discreet, modest", writes on Instagram Benjamin Compaoré, who has announced the death of "Stieve", with whom he had won the title of European champion in 2014. With Stievenart, himself a former triple jumper, Teddy Tamgho had become world indoor champion in 2010 in Doha, before going to train with the Cuban Ivan Pedroso.

In his career as an athlete, Stievenart won two French championship titles in 1978 outdoors and indoors.

He set his personal best of 16.21 meters.

It was in Abbeville, in Picardy, that he began to practice athletics.

But it was first however in the long jump that he first distinguished himself.

Junior champion of France with his training club, the Sporting club Abbeville, he had something to hold on to.

His father was already the record holder for the sum with a leap of 7.13 meters.

Champion of France in his discipline in 1970, he very quickly became the pride of a city, and of a sport still little known at that time in France.

Little by little, he made a name for himself, a place in French athletics.

After his career as an athlete, Stievenart became coach of the French team and trained the greatest French specialists in the triple jump, such as the former world record holder Teddy Tamgho or the 2014 European triple jump champion. in Zurich Benjamin Compaoré.

In an interview granted to Alsace in February 2021, the student Compaoré recounted the progress he has made thanks to his lifelong master.

“The legacy he left me in fifteen years at his side, both as an athlete and as a coach, is invaluable.

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Source: leparis

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