Yvonne Curtet

Yvonne Curtet
Personal information
Nationality	France
Born	28 May 1920 (age 103); 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, she is the oldest living Olympian.^[5]

National titles edit

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

Personal records edit

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

References edit

^ "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.