Stéphane Caristan
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Stéphane Caristan (born 31 May 1964) is a retired hurdler 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 (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metres hurdles. As part of a rac ...
final at the European Championships in Stuttgart, clocking 13.20, which was also his personal best. He competed in three consecutive
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for his native country, starting in 1984. Caristan later became the coach of French sprinter Christine Arron.


International competitions

1Did not finish in the final


Personal bests

Outdoor *
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 (sport), athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metres hurdles. As part of a rac ...
– 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 Summer Olympics, Olympic Sport of athletics, athletics programme since 1900 Summer Olympics, 1900 for men and since 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 for women. On 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 7.65 seconds (Devynne Ch ...
– 7.50 (Liévin 1987)


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1964 births Living people Sportspeople from Créteil Athletes from Val-de-Marne 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 French Athletics Championships winners 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-hurdles-bio-stub