French sprinter (born 1935)
Jocelyn Delecour
Delecour in 1963
Born 2 January 1935 (1935-01-02 ) (age 89)Tourcoing , France Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Weight 67 kg (148 lb) Sport Sprint running Club UST Athlétisme, Tourcoing Racing Club de France, Paris Personal best(s) 100 m - 10.31 (1959) 200 m - 20.7 (1963)[ 1] [ 2]
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.[ 1]
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.[ 3]
1934 : Germany (Schein , Gillmeister , Hornberger , Borchmeyer ) 1938 : Germany (Kersch , Hornberger , Neckermann , Scheuring ) 1946 : Sweden (Danielsson , Nilsson , Laessker , Håkansson ) 1950 : Soviet Union (Sukharev , Kalyayev , Sanadze , Karakulov ) 1954 : Hungary (Zarándi , Varasdi , Csányi , Goldoványi ) 1958 : West Germany (Mahlendorf , Hary , Fütterer , Germar ) 1962 : West Germany (Ulonska , Gamper , Bender , Germar ) 1966 : France (Berger , Delecour , Piquemal , Bambuck ) 1969 : France (Sarteur , Bourbeillon , Fenouil , St.-Gilles ) 1971 : Czechoslovakia (Kříž , Demeč , Kynos , Bohman ) 1974 : France (Sainte-Rose , Arame , Cherrier , Chauvelot ) 1978 : Poland (Nowosz , Licznerski , Dunecki , Woronin ) 1982 : Soviet Union (Sokolov , Aksinin , Prokofyev , Sidorov ) 1986 : Soviet Union (Yevgenyev , Yuschmanov , Muravyov , Bryzhin ) 1990 : France (Morinière , Sangouma , Trouabal , Marie-Rose ) 1994 : France (Lomba , Perrot , Trouabal , Sangouma ) 1998 : Great Britain (Condon , Campbell , Walker , Golding ) 2002 : Ukraine (Vasyukov , Rurak , Dovhal , Kaydash ) 2006 : Great Britain (Chambers , Campbell , Devonish , Lewis-Francis ) 2010 : France (Vicaut , Lemaitre , Pessonneaux , Mbandjock ) 2012 : Netherlands (Mariano , Martina , Codrington , van Luijk ) 2014 : Great Britain (Gemili , Kilty , Aikines-Aryeetey , Ellington ) 2016 : Great Britain (Dasaolu , Gemili , Ellington , Ujah ) 2018 : Great Britain (Ujah , Hughes , Gemili , Aikines-Aryeetey ) 2022 : Great Britain (Azu , Hughes , Efoloko , Mitchell-Blake ) 2024 : Italy (Melluzo , Jacobs , Patta , Tortu , Rigali , Simonelli )