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Jocelyn Delecour

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Sport
  
Sprint running

Weight
  
67 kg

Height
  
1.75 m

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Name
  
Jocelyn Delecour


Jocelyn Delecour

Born
  
2 January 1935 (age 89) (
1935-01-02
)
Tourcoing, France

Club
  
UST Athletisme, Tourcoing Racing Club de France, Paris

Olympic medals
  
Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Similar People
  
Claude Piquemal, Paul Drayton, Marian Dudziak, Wieslaw Maniak, Bob Hayes

Jocelyn Delecour (born 2 January 1935) is a retired French sprinter. He competed in various sprint events at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1964 in the 4×100 metre relay, together with Paul Genevay, Bernard Laidebeur and Claude Piquemal. Four years later he and Piquemal teamed up with Gérard Fenouil and Roger Bambuck to win the bronze medal once again in the same event.

At the European Championships, Delecour won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m (1966), 100 m (1962) and 200 m (1958) events, respectively.

References

Jocelyn Delecour Wikipedia