Minister of Sports (France)

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The Minister of Sports (French: Ministre des Sports) is a cabinet member in the Government of France.

The position has changed names a number of times since its creation, having occasionally been discontinued or regrouped with the Minister of National Education. Since 2022 Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has served Minister for Sport and the Olympic & Paralympic Games.^[1]

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• Andrée Viénot (Under Secretary of State of Youth and Sports): 24 June 1946 - 22 January 1947
• Pierre Bourdan (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 22 January – 22 October 1947
• André Morice (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 11 September 1948 – 11 August 1951
• Pierre Chevalier (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 11 August – 12 August 1951
• Claude Lemaître-Basset (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 12 August 1951 – 20 January 1952
• Jean Masson (Secretary of State of Youth, Sports and Professional Education): 20 January 1952 – 28 June 1953
• René Billères (Minister of National Education, Youth Affairs and Sports): 1 February 1956 – 14 May 1958

• Maurice Herzog (High-commissar of Youth and Sports) 27 September 1958 – 8 January 1966
• François Missoffe (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 8 January 1966 – 30 May 1968
• Roland Nungesser (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 30 May – 10 July 1968
• Jean-Pierre Soisson (Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and of Leisure Activities): 5 April 1978 – 22 May 1981
• André Henry (Minister of Free Time): 22 May 1981 – 22 March 1983
• Alain Calmat (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 23 July 1984 – 20 March 1986
• Christian Bergelin (Secretary of State for Youth Affairs and Sports): 20 March 1986 – 13 May 1988
• Lionel Jospin (Minister of National Education, Research and Sports): 13 May 1988 – 16 May 1991
• Frédérique Bredin (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 16 May 1991 – 29 March 1993
• Michèle Alliot-Marie (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 29 March 1993 – 18 May 1995
• Guy Drut (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 7 November 1995 – 4 June 1997
• Marie-George Buffet (Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 4 June 1997 – 7 May 2002
• Jean-François Lamour (Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Associative Life): 7 May 2002 – 18 May 2007
• Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin (Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Health): 18 May 2007 – 14 November 2010
• Chantal Jouanno (Minister of Sports): 14 November 2010 – 26 September 2011
• David Douillet (Minister of Sports): 26 September 2011 – 16 May 2012
• Valérie Fourneyron (Minister of Youth Affairs, Sports and Associative Life): 16 May 2012 – 31 March 2014
• Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (Minister of Women's Rights, Minister of City Affairs, Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports): 2 April – 25 August 2014
• Patrick Kanner (Minister of the Urbanity, Youth Affairs and Sports): 26 August 2014 – 17 May 2017
• Laura Flessel (Minister of Sports): 17 May 2017 – 4 September 2018
• Roxana Maracineanu (Minister of Sports): 4 September 2018 – 6 July 2020
• Roxana Maracineanu (Minister Delegate for Sport): 6 July 2020 – 20 May 2022^[2]
• Amélie Oudéa-Castéra (Minister for Sport and the Olympic & Paralympic Games): 20 May 2022- incumbent

• Minister Delegate (France)
• Cabinet (government)

• "Composition of the Government". Gouvernement.fr. 2018-03-20.
• "La ministre déléguée auprès du ministre de l'Éducation nationale, de la Jeunesse et des Sports, en charge des Sports". Ministère de l'Education Nationale de la Jeunesse et des Sports (in French).

• Cabinet website