Prudent Joye

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Prudent Joye (born December 15, 1913 in Roubaix , † November 1, 1980 ) was a French athlete . With a height of 1.80 m, his competition weight was 78 kg.

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Joye was eliminated in 54.1 seconds in the 400 meter hurdles . With the French 4 x 400 meter relay , Joye just missed the finals.

Two years later at the European Championships in Paris in 1938 , he won the 400-meter hurdles in 53.1 s before the Hungarian József Kovács in 53.3 s. As the final runner of the French relay, he took over the baton as third behind the final runners from Germany and the United Kingdom. The Swedish final runner Bertil von Wachenfeldt took Joye 1.7 seconds away and secured the Swedes the bronze medal before France.

Prudent Joye was the French champion in the 400-meter hurdles in 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941 and 1943. He started for RC Roubaix from 1932 to 1934, for CA Français Paris from 1935 to 1941 and for FC Sochaux in 1942 and 1943, before ending his career in Roubaix in 1945.

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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SURNAME Joye, Prudent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French athlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Roubaix
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1980