Jacques Rousseau

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Jacques Rousseau (born March 10, 1951 in Pointe-à-Pitre , Guadeloupe ) is a former French athlete . With a height of 1.86 m, his competition weight was 76 kg.

At the age of 19 Jacques Rousseau entered the European Championships in Helsinki in 1971 . With 7.56 meters he was eleventh in the long jump . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he jumped 7.65 meters and finished tenth. He also achieved this rank at the 1974 European Championships in Rome. Despite or because of too much tailwind, he only jumped 7.58 meters.

At the European Indoor Championships in 1975 in Katowice, Rousseau won his first title with 7.94 meters. A year later at the European Indoor Championships in Munich in 1976, he successfully defended his title with 7.90 meters. On June 26, 1976, he jumped the French championship in Lille with a national record of 8.26 meters. This distance should remain his personal best.

He traveled to the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal as a medal candidate. In the final, a total of five jumpers jumped eight meters and further, with four showing their best jump in the first attempt. After the first attempt, the Americans Arnie Robinson led with 8.35 meters and Randy Williams with 8.11 meters ahead of Rousseau and the Brazilian João Carlos de Oliveira , who both landed at 8.00 meters. In the fourth attempt, Frank Wartenberg from the GDR jumped 8.02 meters. Thanks to the better second-best distance, Rousseau placed fourth ahead of Oliveira, but missed bronze by two centimeters.

At the European Championships in Prague in 1978 , Rousseau then also won a title outdoors. With 8.18 meters he won ahead of the Yugoslav Nenad Stekic with 8.12 meters.

literature

  • Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics , Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

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