{{short description|French long jumper}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name = Nadine Fourcade |event = Long Jump |nationality = {{FRA}} |birth_date = {{birth date text|25 February 1963}} |birth_place = Reims |death_date = {{death_date and age |2011|4|19|1963|2|25|df=y}} |nationals = French Long Jump Record Holders }}

'''Nadine Fourcade''' (25 February 1963 – 19 April 2011)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.athle.fr/asp.net/main.news/news.aspx?newsid=9178|title=Décès de Nadine Fourcade, internationale de 1980 à 1988|author=FFA|date=20 April 2011|website=athle.fr}}</ref> was a French athlete, who specialized in the Long jump.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nadine FOURCADE |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/france/nadine-fourcade-14345521 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613161740/https://worldathletics.org/athletes/france/nadine-fourcade-14345521 |archive-date=2024-06-13 |access-date=2025-12-19 |website=worldathletics.org |language=en}}</ref>

== Biography == She was member, first of the Stade de Reims team and then the DAC Reims team. At first she competed in high jump, long jump, and combined events, but eventually specialized in long jump. She was a member of the junior French national team three times and the senior French national team ten times from 1980 to 1988. She competed in the European Championship finals in Stuttgart (1986) with a long jump of 6.52 meters.

She won three French National Outdoor championship titles in 1986, 1987 and 1988, and won two other titles indoors in 1985 and 1986. On May 4 1985, at Montgeron, she established a new French Long Jump record with a jump of 6.79m,<ref>{{Cite web |title=LES 10 MEILLEURES ATHLÈTES FRANÇAISES DE TOUS LES TEMPS |url=https://www.athle.fr/contenu/tous-temps-esf/1135 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251219085121/https://www.athle.fr/contenu/tous-temps-esf/1135 |archive-date=2025-12-19 |access-date=2025-12-19 |website=www.athle.fr |language=fr}}</ref> 17 cm beyond the former national jump record set by Jackie Curtet.

=== Prizes === * French Championships in Athletics : ** Outdoors: Winner of the long jump 1986, 1987 and 1988 ** Indoors: Winner of the long jump in 1985 and 1986.

=== Records === {| class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |+'''personal records'''

! scope="col" |Event ! scope="col" | Performance ! scope="col" | Location ! scope="col" | Date |- |Long jump |6.79&nbsp;m |Montgeron |4 May 1985 |}

== Notes and references == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{World Athletics}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fourcade, Nadine}} Category:1963 births Category:2011 deaths Category:French women long jumpers Category:Sportspeople from Reims Category:Athletes from Grand Est Category:French Athletics Championships winners Category:20th-century French sportswomen