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Place of Birth: Créteil, Île-de-France, France
About Jean-Paul Cézard
- Jean-Paul Cézard (born January 30, 1953) is a French sports administrator and former sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1970s.
- He won a bronze medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1974 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Mexico City.
- He was national champion repeatedly. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Cézard was eliminated in the semifinal of the C-2 1000 m event. Then he had a trainer's career with both female and male national teams in sprint canoeing during Eighties.
- he participated actively in the successful athletes preparation for 84's and 88's Olympics and, in the same period, for the annual World Championships.
- He also developed a rational approach of training based on specific physical and energetic measures in situ and studies led in the national institute for sport and physical education (INSEP) in Paris.
- He was also engaged in teaching his method and signed several technical articles. From 2010 he is assistant director of the Federation for University Sport of France (FFSU) charged with Handi-U, the Federations disability sports initiative.
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