Pierre Durand (born 16 February 1955) is a French

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champion, and 1988 Olympic champion.

Olympic record

Durand participated at the

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, where he won a gold medal in Individual Jumping, and also a team bronze medal."1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, Japan – Equestrian"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 28 October 2008)

In film

Durand is played by

Guillaume Canet Guillaume Canet (; born 10 April 1973) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, and show jumper. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like ''Joyeux Noël'', '' Love Me If ...

in ''

Jappeloup Jappeloup is a 2013 Canadian-French film directed by Christian Duguay. In January 2014, Lou de Laâge was nominated for the Most Promising Actress award at the 39th César Awards. Plot In the early 1980s, Pierre Durand, Jr. resigns from his ...

'', a film by Christian Duguay about the bond he developed with Jappeloup until they won at the Olympics. He sued the producers for misuse of the brand "Jappeloup".

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* * 1955 births Living people Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic bronze medalists for France Equestrians at the 1984 Summer Olympics Equestrians at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic equestrians of France French male equestrians Olympic medalists in equestrian Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics 20th-century French people {{France-equestrian-bio-stub