Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Name Jacques Lebrun Club CVP, Les Mureaux | Sport Sailing Weight 80 kg (180 lb) | |
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Died 14 January 1996 (aged 85)Neuilly-sur-Seine, France | ||
Hommage jean jacques lebrun
Jacques Lebrun (20 September 1910 – 14 January 1996) was a French sailor. He competed at the 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in the snowbird event in 1932. He missed the 1956 Games for financial reasons.
Lebrun was a boat designer and eventually became technical director of the national sailing association. During World War II he helped to hide a significant part of the Louvre collection from the Germans.
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