Jacques_Doucet_(sailor)

Jacques Doucet (sailor)

Jacques Doucet (sailor)

French sailor

Jacques Doucet (19 February 1853 in Paris – 30 October 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine)[1] was a French sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.[2]

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He was the crew member of the French boat Favorite 1, which won two silver medals in the races of the 2 to 3 ton class. He also participated in the Open class, but did not finish the race.[3]

A memoir by the French painter Charles Picart Le Doux suggests that Doucet did not survive World War I.[4]

Further reading

  • Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, Concours D'Exercices Physiques et de Sports (PDF) (in French). Imprimerie Nationale. 1901. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2014.

References

  1. [1]
    Stéphane Gachet JO d'été. Tous les médaillés français de 1896 à nos jours, ed. Talent Sport, Paris 2023, p. 22
  2. [2]
    "Jacques Doucet Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  3. [3]
    "Jacques Doucet". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  4. [4]
    Picart Le Doux, Charles (1953). Monelle de Montmartre, preface by Pierre Mac Orlan, illustrations by the author, Paris, 1953, p. 42: "Many, like dear Doucet, had disappeared, were dead."
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