Vincent Confait

Vincent Confait
Personal information
NationalitySeychellois
Born (1959-10-28) 28 October 1959 (age 67)
Sport
SportSprinting
Event
400 metres
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing the  Seychelles
Indian Ocean Island Games
Gold medal – first place1979 Réunion4 × 400 m relay
Silver medal – second place1979 Réunion400 m hurdles
Silver medal – second place1985 Curepipe400 m hurdles

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.

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.

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.

Since 1981, Confait won nineteen individual Seychelles Athletics Federation national titles in the 400 metres, 800 metres, 110 metres hurdles, and 400 metres hurdles.

Confait was the sole male Seychelles representative at the 1983 World Championships in Athletics, where he finished 7th in his 800 m heat.

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. However, Confait placed 9th overall in the Friendship Games 400 metres competition.

Confait continued to compete in masters athletics, setting the Seychellois 10,000 metres masters record in 2006.

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.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "Vincent Confait at Olympics.com". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  3. ↑ Vincent Confait at Athletics Podium
  4. 1 2 Vincent Confait at Tilastopaja (subscription required)
  5. ↑ Vincent Confait at Olympedia Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ↑ "SEYCHELLOIS CHAMPIONSHIPS". Athletics Weekly.
  7. ↑ Vincent Confait at World Athletics Edit this at Wikidata
  8. ↑ Żemantowski, Jacek (October 1984). "Moskwa '84". Lekkoatletyka 10 (84) (in Polish). p. 6.
  9. ↑ "Athletics Cup competition-Jaffa and Confait register 10,000m hand-timing records". Seychelles Nation. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  10. ↑ "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.
  11. ↑ "Seychellois Flydubai crew member among Russia crash fatalities". seychellesnewsagency.com. Retrieved 13 April 2025.