Marc Vouillot

Marc Vouillot, born on 5 July 1952 in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, is a French powerlifter and strength coach with an international reputation who has been called the Father of French Powerlifting. His family moved to Cotonou in Dahomey when he was seven, where he began judo, and to Argenteuil in 1963, where world champion Henri Ferrari introduced him to Olympic weightlifting. He has competed in powerlifting for over thirty years, was French national champion in 1981, 1982 and 1996, and also entered natural bodybuilding contests at national level. As a coach he has trained powerlifting champions such as Jean-Pierre Brulois and Sarah Robertson, and he wrote La Force Athletique, published in Paris in 2006.