Bill Payne (athlete)
Bill Payne (born 21 December 1967) is a retired American pole vaulter.
He won the silver medal at the 1991 Summer Universiade,[1] and competed at the 1995 World Championships without reaching the final.[2]
Payne competed for the Baylor Bears track and field team in the NCAA. In 1990, he was suspended for three months after testing positive for a banned substance.[3]
His personal best is 5.86 metres, achieved in May 1991 in Houston. This result secures him a place on the all-time list in pole vault, and places him thirteenth on the American all-time list behind Jeff Hartwig, Timothy Mack, Toby Stevenson, Brad Walker, Lawrence Johnson, Scott Huffman, Joe Dial, Dean Starkey, Jacob Davis, Nick Hysong, Kory Tarpenning and Earl Bell.[4]
He is married with four children. His daughter, Demi Payne, is also a pole vaulter, one of the top ten female vaulters in history.
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- 1967 births
- Living people
- American men pole vaulters
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for the United States
- Medalists at the 1991 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- Doping cases in the sport of athletics
- American sportspeople in doping cases
- Baylor Bears men's track and field athletes
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