Michel Jazy

Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Competitor for  France
Olympic Games
Silver	Rome 1960	1500 metres
European Championships
Gold	Belgrade 1962	1500 metres
Gold	Budapest 1966	5000 metres
Silver	Budapest 1966	1500 metres

Michel Jazy (born June 13, 1936 in Oignies) is a former French middle distance runner, who won the silver medal over 1500 metres at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The race was won by Herb Elliott in a new world record time. Jazy also set a world record over the mile run in a time of 3:53.6 minutes in Rennes in 1965, a world record over 2000 metres in 4:56.1 minutes in Saint Maur in 1966, and a world record over 3000 metres in 7:49 minutes in Melun in 1965. He has Polish ancestry.^[1]

Records
Preceded by Peter Snell	Men's Mile World Record Holder July 9, 1965 – July 17, 1966	Succeeded by Jim Ryun
Preceded by Gordon Pirie	Men's 3000 m World Record Holder June 27, 1962 – August 5, 1965	Succeeded by Siegfried Herrmann
Preceded by Stanislav Jungwirth	European Record Holder Men's 1500 m 28 July 1963 - 13 July 1965	Succeeded by Jurgen May
Preceded by Jurgen May	European Record Holder Men's 1500 m 25 June 1966 - 22 July 1970	Succeeded by Jean Wadoux

References

1. ^ Rabiller, Pascal. "J’échangerais huit records du monde contre l’or olympique!". Objectif Aquitaine. http://www.objectif-aquitaine.com/parlerdeux.asp?sX_Menu_selectedID=&id=18&c=1. Retrieved 15 August 2009. 

• "World Record progression in men's running events". http://www.saunalahti.fi/~sut/eng/mwrrun.html. Retrieved 2008-08-06. 

Persondata
Name	Jazy, Michel
Alternative names
Short description	French athlete
Date of birth	June 13, 1936
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death