Full Name: | Jacques Baptiste Lebrun |
Birth Date: | 20 September 1910 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Date: | 14 January 1996 (aged 85) |
Death Place: | Neuilly-sur-Seine, France |
Height: | 1.80 m |
Weight: | 80 kg |
Classes: | Snowbird, O-Jolle, Swallow, Finn, 5.5 Metre |
Club: | CVP, Les Mureaux |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Jacques Baptiste Lebrun (20 September 1910 – 14 January 1996) was a French sailor. He competed at the 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in the snowbird event in 1932.[1] He missed the 1956 Games for financial reasons.
Lebrun was a boat designer and eventually became technical director of the national sailing association. During World War II he helped to hide a significant part of the Louvre collection from the Germans.[2]