Caroline Ammel (born

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Blanc-Mesnil Blanc-Mesnil is a village and former commune in the Seine-Maritime department, northwestern France. Since 1822, it is part of Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer Sainte-Marguerite-sur-Mer (, literally ''Sainte-Marguerite on Sea'') is a commune in the Se ...

) is a former French

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

, who specialized in the

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, bar. Pole jumping was already practiced by the ...

Biography

She won three titles French National Pole Vault Championships: two Outdoor in 1995 and 2000, and one Indoors in 1996. Caroline was the first female record holder for the pole vault (French records) vaulting 3.91 m (1994). She four times improved the national record: 4.16 m and 4.21 m in 1997, and 4.22 m and 4.23 m in 1998. Her personal best is 4.30 m (2000).

Prize list

French Championships in Athletics The French Athletics Championships () is an annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Fédération française d'athlétisme (FFA; French Athletics Federation), which serves as the French national championships for the sport. The ...

: ** winner of the pole vault in

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

and

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

* French Indoors Athletics Championships: ** winner of the pole vault in

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Records

Notes and references

External links

* * Olympic profile fo
Caroline Ammel
on ''sports-reference.com'' 1973 births Living people French female pole vaulters Sportspeople from Le Blanc-Mesnil Athletes from Seine-Saint-Denis Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for France French Athletics Championships winners 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-polevault-bio-stub