Patrick Abada

Last updated

Patrick Abada (born 20 March 1954 in Paris) is a retired French pole vaulter and Olympian, having competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. [1] His best vault was one of 5.70 m, made on 26 August 1983, in Brussels. As of August 2001, that mark was the 126th best pole vault of all time. [2] He represented France in pole vaulting 25 times between 1973 and 1985.

Contents

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionNotes
Representing Flag of France.svg  France
1973 European Indoor Championships Rotterdam, Netherlands 6th 5.20 m
European Junior Championships Duisburg, West Germany NM
1974 European Championships Rome, Italy 9th 5.10 m
1976 Olympic Games Montreal, Canada 4th 5.45 m
1978 European Championships Prague, Czechoslovakia 9th 5.30 m
1979 European Indoor Championships Vienna, Austria NM
World Cup Montreal, Canada 2nd 5.45 m 1
Universiade Mexico City, Mexico 3rd 5.55 m
1980 European Indoor Championships Sindelfingen, West Germany 3rd 5.55 m
1983 European Indoor Championships Budapest, Hungary 3rd 5.55 m
Mediterranean Games Casablanca, Morocco 1st [3] [4] 5.55 m
World Championships Helsinki, Finland 6th 5.55 m
1985 World Indoor Games Paris, France 4th 5.50 m

1Representing Europe

Physical characteristics

Current work

He is currently president of the athletics section of the Racing Club de France . [5]

Personal life

Abada is from an Algerian family of Turkish origin. [6]

Notes

  1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Patrick Abada". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  2. World men's all-time best pole vault
  3. "Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Mediterranean Games". Olympedia.org. Retrieved 8 April 2021. 1–0–0 1983 Casablanca ATH gold: pole vault
  4. "Mediterranean Games". GBR Athletics. Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. Racing Club de France Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Afrique-Asie, Issues 178-190: Sports, Société d'Éditions Afrique, Asie, Amérique Latine, 1979, p. 414, Les Jeux méditerranéens vont s'ouvrir à Alger, quand on apprend que le perchiste français Patrick Abada a émis le souhait de ... La vérité est pourtant toute simple : Abada est d'une vieille famille algéroise (d'origine turque) dont de ....
Sporting positions
Preceded by Men's Pole Vault Best Year Performance
alongside Flag of France.svg Philippe Houvion

1979
Succeeded by


Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gymnastics at the 1900 Summer Olympics</span> Gymnastics at the Olympics

At the 1900 Summer Olympics one gymnastics event for men was contested. The competition was held on Sunday, 29 July 1900, and on Monday, 30 July 1900. There were 135 competitors from 8 nations. The top 18 places were taken by French gymnasts, of which there were more than 100. The event was won by Gustave Sandras, with Noël Bas finishing second and Lucien Démanet third. The highest-placing foreign gymnast was Jules Ducret of Switzerland, in a tie for 19th place.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alain Mimoun</span> Algerian-born French long-distance runner

Alain Mimoun, born Ali Mimoun Ould Kacha, was an Algerian-born French long-distance runner who competed in track events, cross-country running and the marathon. He was the 1956 Olympic champion in the marathon. He is the most bemedalled French athletics sportsperson in history. In 1999, readers of the French athletics magazine Athlétisme Magazine voted him as the “French Athlete of the 20th Century”.

Kéné Ndoye was a Senegalese track and field athlete, competing internationally for Senegal. She was 14th in the triple jump at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault</span> Athletics at the Olympics

The men's pole vault was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. It was held on July 15, 1900. Eight athletes from five nations competed in the pole vault.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean Galfione</span> French pole vaulter and sailor

Jean Galfione is a French retired pole vaulter. During his pole vaulting career, he won at least one medal in each of the following major international competitions - the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the European Championships and the European Indoors Championships

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pierre Quinon</span> French pole vaulter

Pierre Quinon was a pole vaulter from France who won the 1984 Olympic Games pole vault gold medal and held the pole vault outdoor world record for just four days in the summer of 1983.

Mauro Barella is a retired Italian pole vaulter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daichi Sawano</span> Japanese pole vaulter

Daichi Sawano is a Japanese pole vaulter.

Mickaël Glenn Conjungo Taumhas is a French discus thrower. He formerly represented his birth country of the Central African Republic.

Émile Eugène Gontier was a French track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Gontier competed in the pole vault, tying for fourth place by clearing 3.10 metres. He also placed thirteenth in the discus throw.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's pole vault</span>

The men's pole vault event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California had an entry list of 19 competitors from 13 nations, with two qualifying groups before the final (12) took place on Wednesday August 8, 1984. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Pierre Quinon of France, the nation's first medal in the men's pole vault. France also took one of the two bronze medals after Thierry Vigneron tied with Earl Bell of the United States for third. Mike Tully, also American, earned silver. Bell and Tully continued the American streak of podium appearances in the event every time the United States competed.

Viktor Drechsel is a retired Italian pole vaulter.

Serge Leveur is a retired French pole vaulter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Renato Dionisi</span> Italian pole vaulter

Renato Dionisi is an Italian former pole vaulter. He was born in Riva del Garda. He set a career best of 5.45 m in Rovereto on 25 June 1972.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin Mayer</span> French decathlete

Kevin Mayer is a French athlete specialising in decathlon and indoor heptathlon. He is two-time world champion, two-time Olympic silver medalist and the world record holder in the decathlon since 2018. He is also a world and three-time European champion in heptathlon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Guillaume Thierry</span> Mauritian athlete

Guillaume Thierry is a track and field athlete from the Republic of Mauritius. He first represented his country at pole vault in which he competed at the 2003 World Youth Championships in Athletics held in Sherbrooke, Canada. He now competes in the decathlon and holds the Mauritian national record set on 11–12 September 2013 in Nice, France at the VII Francophone Games. He is the first Mauritian ever to score more than 7000 points in this event.

Algerians in France are people of Algerian descent or nationality living in France. People of Algerian origin account for a large sector of the total population in France. Some immigrated during colonial rule in Algeria starting in the 1920s, and large numbers chose to emigrate to France from the 1960s onwards due to political turmoil in Algeria.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicolas Guigon</span> French pole vaulter

Nicolas Guigon is a French pole vaulter. Representing his nation France in the men's pole vault at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Guigon cleared a height at 5.75 metres to set his own personal best from the national athletics meet in Reims. Throughout his sporting career, Guigon trained for the track and field club ASPTT Grenoble, under his personal coach, 1991 Mediterranean Games champion, and two-time Olympian Philippe d'Encausse.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dimitrios Kyteas</span> Greek pole vaulter

Dimitrios Kyteas is a retired Physical Education Professor and active Federal Coach. For many years he was Greece National and Balkan Champion in Pole Vault. He participated in European Championships, International Meetings and in Montreal Olympic Games as athlete and in London and Rio de Janeiro as coach.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Baptiste Thiery</span> French pole vaulter

Baptiste Thiery is a French pole vaulter. He is a two-gold gold medalist in the men's pole vault event at the CARIFTA Games.