| LC control no. | nr2003036773 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Vuarnet, Jean, 1933-2017 |
| Associated country | France |
| Located | Morzine (France) |
| Birth date | 1933-01-18 |
| Death date | 2017-01-02 |
| Place of birth | Le Bardo (Tunisia) |
| Place of death | Sallanches (France) |
| Field of activity | Skis and skiing Downhill skiing |
| Affiliation | Olympic Winter Games (8th : 1960 : Squaw Valley, Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Skiers Olympic athletes |
| Found in | Notre victoire Olympique, 1961: t.p. (Jean Vuarnet) RLIN, Nov. 11, 2003 (hdg.: Vuarnet, Jean; Vuarnet, Jean, 1933-; usage: Jean Vuarnet) New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 4, 2017 (in obituary published Jan. 3: Jean Vuarnet; Jean Raoul Célina André Vuarnet; b. Jan. 18, 1933, Le Bardo, Tunisia; moved the next year with his family to Morzine, France; d. Monday [Jan. 2, 2017], Sallanches, France, aged 83; Frenchman who won the gold medal in downhill skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics using an innovative approach to aerodynamics and decades later endured the deaths of his wife and his youngest son in a doomsday cult's murder-suicide ritual) |
| Associated language | fre |
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