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(Redirected from Jacky Curtet) French former athlete
Jacqueline Curtet
Personal information
Nationality France
Born9 May 1955 (1955-05-09) (age 69)
Toulouse
Sport
EventLong jump

Jacqueline Curtet (born 9 May 1955, in Toulouse) is a French former athlete, who specialized in the long jump.

Curtet took third in the long jump at the 1975 European Cup held in Nice. In 1977, she won the gold medal at the Summer Universiade at Sofia, Bulgaria, with a jump of 6.38 m. She was a three-time participant at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, her best finish being fourth in 1978.

She won three outdoor French national long jump titles and six French national indoor titles. She improved three times the French record in the long jump, establishing successively 6.57 m in 1977 and 6.58 m and 6.62 m in 1978. She also held the French national record in the 4 × 100 m relay.

Her mother Yvonne Curtet was a former French long jump champion and also shared the honour of breaking the French record and representing France at the European Athletics Championships. They were the first mother/daughter combination to have competed in the same event at the European Championships.

After retiring from the sport she married and took the name Jacky Fréchet.

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
1975 European Cup Nice, France 3rd Long jump 6.36 m
Universiade Rome, Italy 8th Long jump 6.12 m
1976 European Indoor Championships Munich, West Germany 6th Long jump 6.25 m
1977 European Indoor Championships San Sebastián, Spain 8th Long jump 6.19 m
Universiade Sofia, Bulgaria 1st Long jump 6.38 m
1978 European Indoor Championships Milan, Italy 4th Long jump 6.44 m
European Championships Prague, Czechoslovakia 9th Long jump 6.24 m

National titles

Personal records

Event Performance Location Date
Long jump Outdoors 6.62 m Paris, France 23 July 1978
Indoors 6.52 m Vittel, France 11 February 1978

References

  1. European Cup (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
  2. Summer Universiade (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
  3. Jacqueline Curtet. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
  4. Villaseñor, Miguel (2012). European Championships Miscellaneous Archived 2012-10-16 at the Wayback Machine. RFEA. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
  5. French Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
  6. French Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
  • Docathlé 2003, pages 42, 43, 175, 214 et 397, FFA.

External links

World University Games champions in women's long jump


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