Jacques Baptiste Lebrun (20 September 1910 – 14 January 1996) was a French

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the s ...

. He competed at the 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in the snowbird event in 1932. He missed the 1956 Games for financial reasons. Lebrun was a boat designer and eventually became technical director of the national sailing association. During

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he helped to hide a significant part of the

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collection from the Germans.

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* * * * 1910 births 1996 deaths Olympic sailors for France Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic medalists in sailing French male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Snowbird Sailors at the 1936 Summer Olympics – O-Jolle Sailors at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Swallow Sailors at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Finn Sailors at the 1960 Summer Olympics – 5.5 Metre Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics {{France-yachtracing-bio-stub