Jacques Lunis

Jacques Lunis (* 27. May 1923 in Pierrecourt , Seine-Maritime , † 2. November 2008 in Le Plessis-Trévise , department of Val-de-Marne ) was a French sprinter , which refers to the 400-meter dash had specialized .

At the European Athletics Championships in Oslo in 1946 , he won silver in 48.3 seconds behind the Dane Niels Holst-Sørensen (47.9 s). Two days later, the French team in the 4 x 400 meter relay with Bernard Santona , Yves Cros , Robert Chef d'Hôtel with Lunis as the last runner won the European championship in 3: 14.4 minutes with a tenth of a second advantage the British relay.

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , Lunis was eliminated over 400 meters in the quarter-finals. The French relay with the line-up of Jean Kerebel , Francis Schewetta , Chef d'Hôtel and Lunis won silver behind the US quartet in 3: 14.8 minutes, with the French benefiting from the failure of Jamaica's relay.

In 1950 at the European Championships in Brussels , Lunis won silver in 47.6 s behind the British Derek Pugh (47.3 s). The 47.6 seconds, a French record, were only broken five years later. The French relay with René Leroux , Schewetta, Jean-Paul Martin du Gard and Lunis ran a French record of 3: 11.6 minutes, but was only fourth behind the British, Italians and Swedes.

Jacques Lunis was French champion in the 400-meter run in 1946, 1948, 1949 and 1950.

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2009. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2009, ISBN 978-1-899807-78-9 (obituary, page 104).
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. German Society for Athletics Documentation eV, Neuss 1999.

Web links

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