Yvonne Curtet

Yvonne Curtet
Personal information
Nationality	France
Born	28 May 1920 (age 104); Cannes
Sport
Event	Long jump

Yvonne Alice Curtet (née Chabot; born 28 May 1920) is a French former athlete, who specialized in the long jump. She was born in Cannes.

Curtet took eighth place in the long jump during the 1948 London Olympics with a leap of 5.35 m. In qualifying for the final, she established the first Olympic record for women with a jump of 5.64 m.^[1] She also competed at the 1950 European Athletics Championships and placed fourth at that competition.^[2] Her second Olympic appearance resulted in a 23rd-place finish at the 1952 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Curtet won three French national long jump titles (1945, 1946 and 1949) and two titles in the pentathlon (1946 and 1949). She improved three times the French record in the long jump, bringing it to 5.64 m and 5.67 m in 1948, then 5.71 m in 1949.

Her daughter Jacqueline Curtet succeeded her to the French title and also broke the French record and represented France at the European Athletics Championships with her mother. They were the first mother/daughter combination to have competed in the same event at the European Championships.^[4]

As of February 2023, Curtet is the oldest living Olympian.^[5]^[6]

National titles

French Championships in Athletics
- Long jump: 1945, 1946, 1949
- Women's pentathlon: 1946, 1949

Personal records

Event	Performance	Location	Date
Long jump	5.76 m	Albi, France	25 June 1950

References

^ "Olympic long jump record progression - women". trackfield.brinkster.net. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
^ Yvonne Chabot. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
^ Yvonne Curtet. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
^ Villaseñor, Miguel (2012). European Championships Miscellaneous Archived 2012-10-16 at the Wayback Machine. RFEA. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.
^ Tchir, Paul. (30 January 2023). "List of the Oldest Living Olympians (aged 90+)". acsweb.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
^ Binner, Andrew (February 23, 2023). "The secrets to a long and healthy life from former world's oldest Olympian Felix Sienra". Olympics.com. Retrieved September 24, 2024.

Docathlé2003, Fédération française d'athlétisme, 2003, p. 395

External links

Yvonne Curtet at World Athletics

Yvonne Curtet at the French Athletics Federation (in French)
Yvonne Curtet at Olympics.com
Yvonne Curtet at Olympedia

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[1] "Olympic long jump record progression - women". trackfield.brinkster.net. Retrieved 7 December 2015.

[2] Yvonne Chabot. Track and Field Brinkster. Retrieved on 2016-03-13.

[3] Yvonne Curtet. Sports Reference. 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.

[OLO-5] Tchir, Paul. (30 January 2023). "List of the Oldest Living Olympians (aged 90+)". acsweb.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 31 January 2023.

[6] Binner, Andrew (February 23, 2023). "The secrets to a long and healthy life from former world's oldest Olympian Felix Sienra". Olympics.com. Retrieved September 24, 2024.

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