Yvonne Chabot-Curtet

Yvonne Chabot-Curtet studied at the National School of Physical Education where she discovered athletics and the long jump. Competing for Union Athlétique Tarbaise, she had a lengthy and successful career in the long jump after World War II, winning her first French national championships in that event 1945. She followed this up with two additional titles in 1946 and 1949, the same years that she also won the pentathlon.

Chabot-Curtet represented France in the long jump at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics, placing 8th and 23rd respectively, and finished fourth in-between at the 1950 European Championships. She retired after the Helsinki Games, having set three French records in the long jump, in addition to briefly holding an Olympic one after finishing first in the qualifying rounds during the 1948 London Games.

Her daughter Jacqueline was also a long jumper who won three national outdoor titles and six indoors, but never appeared at the Olympics. Yvonne Chabot-Curtet later taught physical education and helped create the Athletic Club of Cannes in 1969. She became the club vice-president and served as its interim president in the early 1970s.

Personal Best: LJ – 5.76 (1950).