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Jacques Favart (30 July 1920 – 27 September 1980) was a French sports official and figure skater.

Jacques Favart
Personal information
Full name	Jacques Jean Fernand Favart
Country represented	France
Born	(1920-07-30)30 July 1920 Paris
Died	27 September 1980(1980-09-27) (aged 60) Le Chesnay
Partner	Denise Favart

He won the French Figure Skating Championships in men's singles in 1942. As a pair skater, he competed with his wife Denise Favart from 1946 to 1950. They placed 14th at the 1948 Winter Olympics.

He served as president of the International Skating Union from 1967 to 1980, and of Fédération Française des Sports de Glace from 1968 to 1969.

He was inaugurated in the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1993.

Competitive highlights

Single skating

Event	1936	1937	1938	1939	1942
French Championships	2nd	2nd	2nd	2nd	1st

Pair skating

(with Denise Favart)

Event	1946	1947	1948	1949	1950
Winter Olympic Games			14th
World Championships		10th	WD	10th	12th
European Championships		8th
French Championships	1st	1st	1st	1st	WD

• WD = Withdrawn

References

• ISU statistics
• various news papers
• Magazin Patinage artistique

External links

• International Skating Union – Past Presidents at www.isu.org
• Jacques Favart at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Ernst Labin	President of the International Skating Union 1967–1980	Succeeded by Olaf Poulsen

На других языках

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- [en] Jacques Favart

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[ru] Фавар, Жак

Жак Фава́р (фр. Jacques Favart, 30 июля 1920 — 27 сентября 1980) — французский фигурист, выступавший в парном разряде с Дениз Фавар (фр. Denise Favart); президент национальной Федерации ледовых видов спорта с 1968 по 1969 год;[2] вице-президент,[3] а впоследствии президент Международного союза конькобежцев (ИСУ) с 1967 по 1980 годы.[4] В 1993 году был введён в Зал славы мирового фигурного катания.[5]

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