Serge Leveur (born 17 June 1957) is a retired French

pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...

er. He won the silver medal at the 1983 Mediterranean Games with a jump of 5.30 metres. The gold went to

Patrick Abada Patrick Abada (born 20 March 1954 in Paris) is a retired French pole vaulter and Olympian, having competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics. His best vault was one of 5.70 m, made on 26 August 1983, in Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; ...

, who cleared 5.55 m. Leveur's personal best jump was 5.60 m, which he achieved twice: in June 1985 in

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, and in July 1986 in

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.La perche française: Les 1000 sauts à 5m60
(in French). Commission de la Documentation et de l'histoire de la Fédération Française d'Athlétisme. Accessed June 2013.

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1957 births Living people French male pole vaulters Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Mediterranean Games {{France-polevault-bio-stub