Stéphane Caristan (born 31 May 1964) is a retired

hurdler Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle (sometimes known as 'burgles'), landing on both feet and checking their forward motion. Today, ...

from

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, who set the world's best year performance in 1986. He did so by winning the men's

110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles, or 110-metre hurdles, is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is included in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metres hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hur ...

final at the European Championships in Stuttgart, clocking 13.20, which was also his personal best. He competed in three consecutive

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

for his native country, starting in 1984. Caristan later became the coach of French sprinter

Christine Arron Christine Arron (born 13 September 1973) is a former track and field sprinter, who competed internationally for France in the 60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres and the 4 × 100 metres relay. She is one of the ten fastest female 100 metres spri ...

International competitions

¹Did not finish in the final

Personal bests

Outdoor *

– 13.20 (+2.0 m/s, Stuttgart 1986) *

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

– 48.86 (Barcelona 1992) Indoor *

60 metres hurdles 60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds ( Susanna K ...

– 7.50 (Liévin 1987)

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1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Créteil French male hurdlers Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for France Athletics (track and field) coaches European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1993 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics World Athletics Indoor Championships winners World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists {{France-hurdles-bio-stub