Jacques Guittet

Jacques Guittet medal table
fencing
France
Olympic games
bronze	Tokyo 1964	Epee team
World championships
gold	Philadelphia 1958	Foil team
bronze	Philadelphia 1958	Epee team
bronze	Budapest 1959	Epee team
gold	Turin 1961	Sword
silver	Turin 1961	Epee team
gold	Buenos Aires 1962	Epee team
silver	Gdansk 1963	Epee team
gold	Paris 1965	Epee team

Jacques "Jack" Guittet (born January 12, 1930 in Casablanca , Morocco ) is a former French fencer .

successes

Jacques Guittet won the epee individual world champion in Turin in 1961 . He also won the title with the Degen team in Buenos Aires in 1962 and in Paris in 1965 , including with the foil team in Philadelphia in 1958 . In the team competition with the sword he won silver in Turin in 1961 and in Gdansk in 1963 , as well as bronze in 1958 in Philadelphia and 1959 in Budapest .

He took part in the Olympic Games twice, always only in the epee competitions: in 1960 he finished ninth with the team in Rome , while he was eliminated in the individual in the quarter-finals. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 he reached the battle for third place with the French team, in which Sweden was defeated 9: 6 after an 8: 8 draw due to the better hit ratio of 64:59. Together with Claude Bourquard , Claude Brodin , Jacques Brodin and Yves Dreyfus , Guittet received the bronze medal. He finished the individual competition in ninth place.

Guittet was married to Françoise Gouny , who was also an Olympic fencer.

Web links

• Jacques Guittet in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )