Madely Beaugendre (born 22 September 1965 in Pointe-a-Pitre,

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) is a French athlete who specialises in the women's high jump. Beaugendre competed at the

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Biography

Madley won four French National Athletic titles in the

High Jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

: two in Outdoors in 1987 and 1989 and two Indoors in 1987 and 1988. In 1988, she bettered the French Indoors record in the High Jump jumping 1.96m.

Palmarès

* French National Outdoors Athletic Championships : **winner of High Jump in

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and

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* French National Indoors Athletic Championships : **winner of High Jump in

and

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Records

References

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1965 births Living people French female high jumpers Olympic athletes for France French people of Guadeloupean descent Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics French Athletics Championships winners 20th-century French sportswomen {{France-highjump-bio-stub