Jacqueline Curtet

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Jacqueline Curtet
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NationalityFlag of France.svg  France
Born9 May 1955 (1955-05-09) (age 68)
Toulouse
Sport
Event(s) Long jump

Jacqueline Curtet (born 9 May 1955, in Toulouse) 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.

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
1975 European Cup Nice, France3rdLong jump6.36 m
Universiade Rome, Italy8thLong jump 6.12 m
1976 European Indoor Championships Munich, West Germany6thLong jump 6.25 m
1977 European Indoor Championships San Sebastián, Spain8thLong jump 6.19 m
Universiade Sofia, Bulgaria1stLong jump 6.38 m
1978 European Indoor Championships Milan, Italy4thLong jump 6.44 m
European Championships Prague, Czechoslovakia9thLong jump 6.24 m

National titles

Personal records

EventPerformanceLocationDate
Long jumpOutdoors6.62 m Paris, France23 July 1978
Indoors6.52 m Vittel, France11 February 1978

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