Jacques Madubost (6 June 1944 – 29 June 2018) was a French track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.J2 Jeunes, n° 14, 1968.Miroir de l'athlétisme, n°21, 1 June 1966.
Despite never winning a national title at the French Athletics Championships, he was the gold medallist at the 1966 European Athletics Championships in Budapest.European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.French Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18. He defeated compatriot Robert Sainte-Rose – the leading French athlete of the era – by count-back, as both cleared . This made Madubost the first Frenchman to win a field event at the championship, and he remains the sole French male athlete to win the European title in men's high jump (Anne-Marie Colchen won the women's event 20 years earlier).European Championships (Women). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18. For his achievement he was given the 1966 medal of the Académie des sports (one of two from athletics, alongside sprinter Roger Bambuck).LES MÉDAILLES DE L'ACADÉMIE DES SPORTS . Academie des Sports. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
The 1966 season proved to be a peak of his career, as he also twice improved the French national record with clearances of and .Janusz Waśko, Andrzej Socha: Athletics National Records Evolution 1912 – 2006. Zamość - Sandomierz: 2007, p. 84. He represented France at the 1968 European Athletics Indoor Championships, but did not match his previous success and ended the competition in 18th place.Jacques Madubost . Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.
A policeman by occupation, after his retirement from athletics he represented France internationally in sport shooting.
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