Jacques Madubost

{{Short description|French track and field athlete}}

{{MedalTableTop|sport= Men's athletics|country_code=FRA|medals=

{{Medal|Competition|European Athletics Championships}}

{{Medal|Gold |1966 Budapest|High jump}}

}}

Jacques Madubost (6 June 1944 – 29 June 2018){{Cite web|url=https://m.lequipe.fr/Athletisme/Actualites/Jacques-madubost-est-mort/917230?xtref=https:%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2F|title = Jacques Madubost est mort}} 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.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ec.htm European Championships (Men)]. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.[http://www.gbrathletics.com/nc/fra.htm 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 {{T&Fcalc|2.12}}. 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).[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ecw.htm 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).[http://www.academie-sports.com/prix/medailles-lacademie-sports?page=1 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 {{T&Fcalc|2.14}} and {{T&Fcalc|2.15}}.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.[http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/atm.php?ID=79429&Season=1968&Odd=0 Jacques Madubost] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022112953/http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/atm.php?ID=79429&Season=1968&Odd=0 |date=2014-10-22 }}. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-10-18.

A policeman by occupation, after his retirement from athletics he represented France internationally in sport shooting.