Marion Fiack
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| Personal information | |
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| Nationality |
 France
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| Born |
13 October 1992 (age 24) Reims |
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Sport | |
| Event(s) | Pole Vault |
| Club | Thionville |
| Coached by | Joël Mertz, |
| Achievements and titles | |
| National finals | at 4.71m |
Marion Fiack (born 1992 at 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 and with vaults respectively of 4.36 m and 4.61 m.
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 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.
Competing in the Senior level competition, Marion Fiack became 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.
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