- Max Morinière
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Max Morinière Personal information Born 16 February 1964 Medal recordMen’s Athletics Competitor for 
FranceOlympic Games Bronze 1988 Seoul 4x100 m relay World Championships Silver 1991 Tokyo 4x100 m relay European Championships Gold 1990 Split 4 x 100 m relay Max Morinière (born 16 February 1964 in Fort-de-France) is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Biography
At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a bronze medal in the 4x100 metres relay with his team mates Bruno Marie-Rose, Daniel Sangouma and Gilles Quenehervé.
At the 1990 European Championships in Split the French team of Morinière, Daniel Sangouma, Jean-Charles Trouabal and Bruno Marie-Rose improved the world record to 37.79 seconds. The record stood less than one year, as the United States team ran in 37.67 seconds at the Weltklasse Zurich meet.[1] With 10.09 seconds he is also a former French record holder in the 100 metres.
Achievements
Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes Representing France1988 Olympic Games Seoul, South Korea 3rd 4 x 100 m relay 1989 Jeux de la Francophonie Casablanca, Morocco 3rd 100 m 1990 European Championships Split, Yugoslavia 5th 100 m 1st 4 x 100 m relay 1991 World Championships Tokyo, Japan 2nd 4 x 100 m relay References
- IAAF profile for Max Morinière
- ^ Men's 4 x 100m. Relay. World Record Progression - Sporting Heroes
European Champions in Men's 4 x 100 m relay 1934: Germany (Schein, Gillmeister, Hornberger, Borchmeyer) • 1938: Germany (Kersch, Hornberger, Neckermann, Scheuring) • 1946: Sweden (Danielsson, Nilsson, Laessker, Håkansson) • 1950: Soviet Union (Sukharev, Kalyayev, Sanadze, Karakulov) • 1954: Hungary (Zarándi, Varasdi, Csányi, Goldoványi) • 1958: West Germany (Mahlendorf, Hary, Fütterer, Germar) • 1962: West Germany (Ulonska, Gamper, Bender, Germar) • 1966: France (Berger, Delecour, Piquemal, Bambuck) • 1969: France (Sarteur, Bourbeillon, Fenouil, St.-Gilles) • 1971: Czechoslovakia (Kříž, Demeč, Kynos, Bohman) • 1974: France (Sainte-Rose, Arame, Cherrier, Chauvelot) • 1978: Poland (Nowosz, Licznerski, Dunecki, Woronin) • 1982: Soviet Union (Sokolov, Aksinin, Prokofyev, Sidorov) • 1986: Soviet Union (Yevgenyev, Yuschmanov, Muravyov, Bryzhin) • 1990: France (Morinière, Sangouma, Trouabal, Marie-Rose) • 1994: France (Lomba, Perrot, Trouabal, Sangouma) • 1998: Great Britain (Condon, Campbell, Walker, Golding) • 2002: Ukraine (Vasyukov, Rurak, Dovhal, Kaydash) • 2006: Great Britain (Chambers, Campbell, Devonish, Lewis-Francis) • 2010: France (Vicaut, Lemaitre, Pessonneaux, Mbandjock)
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