Jacques Madubost

Jacques Madubost
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  France
European Athletics Championships
Gold 1966 Budapest High jump

Jacques Madubost (born 6 June 1944 in Dangeau) is a French former track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.[1][2]

Despite never winning a national title at the French Athletics Championships, he was the gold medallist at the 1966 European Athletics Championships in Budapest.[3][4] He defeated compatriot Robert Sainte-Rose – the leading French athlete of the era – by count-back, as both cleared 2.12 m (6 ft 111⁄4 in). This made Madubost the first Frenchmen to win a field event at the championship, and he remains the sole French male athlete to win the European title in men's high jump (Anne-Marie Colchen won the women's event 20 years earlier).[3][5] For his achievement he was given the 1966 medal of the Académie des sports (one of two from athletics, alongside sprinter Roger Bambuck).[6]

The 1966 season proved to be a peak of his career, as he also twice improved the French national record with clearances of 2.14 m (7 ft 01⁄4 in) and 2.15 m (7 ft 01⁄2 in).[7] He represented France at the 1968 European Athletics Indoor Championships, but did not match his previous success and ended the competition in 18th place.[8]

A policeman by occupation, after his retirement from athletics he represented France internationally in sport shooting.

References

  1. ↑ J2 Jeunes, n° 14, 1968.
  2. ↑ Miroir de l'athlétisme',' n°21, 1 June 1966.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  4. ↑ French Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  5. ↑ European Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  6. ↑ LES MÉDAILLES DE L'ACADÉMIE DES SPORTS. Academie des Sports. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
  7. ↑ Janusz Waśko, Andrzej Socha: Athletics National Records Evolution 1912 – 2006. Zamość - Sandomierz: 2007, p. 84.
  8. ↑ Jacques Madubost. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.