Raphaël Piolanti (born 14 November 1967 in

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) is a retired male

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er from

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. His personal best throw is 79.68 metres, achieved in September 1992 in

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. This was a French record at that time. In November 1993 he was found guilty of sexual assault on fellow athletes Catherine Moyon de Baecque and Michelle Rouveyrol. He allegedly raped them during an athletics camp in August 1991. Piolanti is now president and coach in Athletic Club Amneville – the athletic club he has been in his entire career. He has trained several high calibre throwers at the club including

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Quentin Bigot Quentin Bigot (born 1 December 1992) is a French athlete specialising in the hammer throw. He won the silver medal A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to t ...

, and Bruno Boccalate. In July 2014 he was accused of supporting the doping of athletes, including

Achievements

References

* 1967 births Living people French male hammer throwers French sportspeople of Italian descent Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for France Sportspeople from Metz Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games French Athletics Championships winners {{France-hammer-bio-stub