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Nationality | France |
Born | 9 May 1955 69) Toulouse | (age
Sport | |
Event | Long 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. [1] In 1977, she won the gold medal at the Summer Universiade at Sofia, Bulgaria, with a jump of 6.38 m. [2] She was a three-time participant at the European Athletics Indoor Championships, her best finish being fourth in 1978. [3]
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. [4]
After retiring from the sport she married and took the name Jacky Fréchet.
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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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 |
Event | Performance | Location | Date | |
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Long jump | Outdoors | 6.62 m | Paris, France | 23 July 1978 |
Indoors | 6.52 m | Vittel, France | 11 February 1978 |
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