At the dawn of its 50th edition (to follow Tuesday and Wednesday on RTS 2), the Meeting Athletissima has Varni this week an exhibition dedicated to it. Jacky Delapierre, its director and founder, is delighted to have created vocations and such a popular event.
The exhibition dedicated to the Lausanne meeting opened its doors on Wednesday evening for three weeks at the City Hall forum. Surrounded by the faces that have made the event, the one who is still a boss of Athletissima for a few weeks recalls a first edition of 1977 disputed in the rain with in particular the New Zealander John Walker, then the reigning Olympic champion and world record holder of the 1500m. Or Edwin Moses, who went to 0 “01 of the world record on 400m hurdles during the 1981 edition.
But the meeting was also a springboard for national and French-speaking athletes, such as SPRANGER sisters, Sarah Atcho-Jacquier and now Jason Joseph or Ditaji Kambudji. “”The current generation of Swiss athletics is the result of work provided since 2007, which we continued after the European championships played in Zurich in 2014“, Confie Jacky Delapierre.
![The exhibition in Lausanne. [KEYSTONE - CYRIL ZINGARO]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw== "The exhibition in Lausanne. [KEYSTONE - CYRIL ZINGARO]")
More recently, it was Usain Bolt who made the Vaudois rise: “The moment he runs in 19” 59 in the rain in 2009 on 200m marked me “, he recalls. At the time of transmitting the witness of the executive management to Julien Carlla after this 50th edition, Jacky Delapierre is delighted to see a large audience coming to Athletissima.
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