Paulette Veste

Paulette Veste

Personal information
Nationality	France
Born	24 February 1928 (age 88) Lespesses
Sport
Event(s)	shot put, discus throw

Paulette Veste (born February 24th 1928 at Lespesses) is a former French athlete, who specialised in the shot put and the discus throw.

Biography

Paulette took fourth in the shot put^[1] and tenth in the discus throw during the 1948 Olympics at London. Four years later, at the 1952 Olympics at Helsinki, she took ninth in the shot put and the sixteenth place in the discus throw.

Paulette won three French national titles in the shot put (1949, 1952 and 1953) and three French national titles in the discus throw(1948, 1951 and 1952).

She improved twice the French discus record, bringing it to 38.83m and 40.95m in 1948.

prize list

• French Championships in Athletics  :
  • 3 times winner of the shot put in 1949, 1952 and 1953
  • 3 times winner of the discus in 1948, 1951 and 1952.

Records

personal records

Event	Performance	Location	Date
Shot Put	13.26 m		1952
Discus throw	42.28 m		1951

notes and references

1. (en) « Athletics at the 1948 London Summer Games:Women's Shot Put Final Round », sure sports-reference.com (consulted the July 7, 2015 )

External links

• Docathlé2003, French Athletics Federation, 2003 p.434
• (in) Olympic profile Paulette Veste sure sports-reference.com