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Place of Birth: Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Yvonne Curtet
- 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. She 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.
- She also competed at the 1950 European Athletics Championships and placed fourth at that competition.
- Her second Olympic appearance resulted in a 23rd-place finish at the 1952 Summer Olympics.She 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.
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