| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  France |
| Born | 9 May 1955 (age 70) |
| Sport | |
Event | Long jump |
Jacqueline Curtet (born 9 May 1955) is a French former athlete, who specialized in the long jump.
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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.
