André Campana

André Campana competed for the clubs US Cognac, Stade Bordelais, and SS Parc Pommery in Reims. He started his athletic career on the track producing top results in the 100 and the low hurdles until 1905. At the 1906 French Championships, he placed second in the 100 but won his first title in the long jump. He was to dominate this event in France prior to World War I with three consecutive championship titles from 1912-14.

At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, Campana placed only 16th in the long jump. In the following year, he took the third place at the British AAA Championships with Sidney Abrahams winning the title.

Campana worked as a clerk and later as a gymnastics teacher. In 1914, he married Louise Marie Célestine Piques but was divorced seven years later. By then, he worked as a mechanic and an antique dealer. In World War I he had served with the infantry and joined the reserve of an aviation group in the mid-1920s. From 1921, he had a relationship with Jeanne Mathilde Victorine Stourm, although it appears they never married. The couple had one daughter and one son. During the last year of his life, he was sentenced to short prison terms for theft and indecent behaviour. By the time of his death, Campana was estranged from his family and died in isolation in a Paris hospital.

Personal Bests: LJ – 7.015 (1913).