Vincent Confait
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| Nationality | Seychellois | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 October 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sprinting | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 400 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Vincent Confait (born 28 October 1959) is a Seychellois sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay and 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics, and the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
Career
Confait won a gold and two silver medals at the Indian Ocean Island Games beginning in 1979. He ran third leg on the Seychellois 4 × 400 m relay team to win the 1979 Games, and he also won individual 400 m hurdles silver medals at the 1979 and 1985 Games.[3]
At the 1980 Summer Olympics, Confait's 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m teams both finished 7th in their heats, failing to advance to the finals.[4][5]
Since 1981, Confait won nineteen individual Seychelles Athletics Federation national titles in the 400 metres, 800 metres, 110 metres hurdles, and 400 metres hurdles.[6]
Confait was the sole male Seychelles representative at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, where he finished 7th in his 800 m heat.[7]
In 1984, Confait competed in both the 1984 Summer Olympics and the Soviet boycott Friendship Games competition later that month. Confait was disqualified from his Olympic 400 m heat and placed 7th in his 400 m hurdles heat, failing to advance in both events.[4] However, Confait placed 9th overall in the Friendship Games 400 metres competition.[8]
Confait continued to compete in masters athletics, setting the Seychellois 10,000 metres masters record in 2006.[9]
Personal life
Confait married Sheila Confait and had a son Alex Confait, who was a Flydubai crew member and also competed and officiated in athletics events. In 2016, his son was one of the seven crew-members killed in the Flydubai Flight 981 aeroplane crash.[10][11]
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Vincent Confait Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
- ^ "Vincent Confait at Olympics.com". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
- ^ Vincent Confait at Athletics Podium
- ^ a b Vincent Confait at Tilastopaja (subscription required)
- ^ Vincent Confait at Olympedia
- ^ "SEYCHELLOIS CHAMPIONSHIPS". Athletics Weekly.
- ^ Vincent Confait at World Athletics
- ^ Żemantowski, Jacek (October 1984). "Moskwa '84". Lekkoatletyka 10 (84) (in Polish). p. 6.
- ^ "Athletics Cup competition-Jaffa and Confait register 10,000m hand-timing records". Seychelles Nation. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Memorial service for Alex Confait who died in the Flydubai aircraft which crashed in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don". Seychelles Nation. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Seychellois Flydubai crew member among Russia crash fatalities". seychellesnewsagency.com. Retrieved 13 April 2025.