Achille Paroche

Achille Paroche medal table
Achille Paroche (1898)
Sport shooting
France
Olympic games
gold	Paris 1900	AG lying 300 m
silver	Paris 1900	Free pistol 50 m
bronze	Paris 1900	AG three position fight 300 m (M)
silver	Paris 1900	Free pistol 50 m (M)
silver	Antwerp 1920	AG horizontal 300 m (M)
World championships
gold	Turin 1898	FG three position fight
silver	Turin 1898	FG lying
silver	Turin 1898	FG kneeling
gold	Turin 1898	FG standing
gold	Turin 1898	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Loosduinen 1899	FG three position fight (M)
gold	Paris 1900	FG lying
silver	Paris 1900	Free pistol
silver	Paris 1900	Free pistol (M)
bronze	Paris 1900	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	Lucerne 1901	FG lying
silver	Lucerne 1901	Free pistol (M)
bronze	Lucerne 1901	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	Rome 1902	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Lyon 1904	FG lying
bronze	Lyon 1904	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	Brussels 1905	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Milan 1906	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	Zurich 1907	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	Vienna 1908	FG lying
bronze	Vienna 1908	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Hamburg 1909	FG three position fight
silver	Hamburg 1909	FG lying
silver	Hamburg 1909	FG three position fight (M)
gold	Loosduinen 1910	FG lying
silver	Loosduinen 1910	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Rome 1911	FG three position fight (M)
gold	Camp Perry 1913	FG lying
silver	Camp Perry 1913	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Viborg 1914	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Lyon 1921	AG standing

Nicolas Achille Paroche (born March 1, 1868 in Sery , † May 27, 1933 in Signy-l'Abbaye ) was a French sports shooter .

successes

Achille Paroche took part in the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 and in Antwerp in 1920 . At the games in 1900 he secured five medals and was once an Olympic champion : in the prone position with the army rifle, he won the gold medal in front of Anders Peter Nielsen and Ole Østmo . In the three-position battle, he reached third place with Auguste Cavadini , Léon Moreaux , Maurice Lecoq and René Thomas . In addition, Paroche also competed in pistol disciplines and won the silver medal with the Free Pistole both in the individual behind Karl Conrad Röderer and in front of Konrad Stäheli as well as with the team behind Switzerland and in front of the Dutch team. In addition to Paroche, the pistol team included Maurice Lecoq, Léon Moreaux, Louis Dutfoy and Jules Trinité . In 1920 Paroche secured a medal by participating in ten disciplines. In the team competition with the army rifle in the prone position, he finished second behind the Americans with Léon Johnson , André Parmentier , Georges Roes and Émile Rumeau .

Paroche won a total of 31 medals at world championships , three of them with the pistol . He became world champion six times: in Turin in 1898 with the free rifle in the standing position and in both individual and team competitions. In a prone position with the free rifle, he was successful in Paris in 1900 - the Olympic Games also counted as a World Championship - in Loosduinen in 1910 and in Camp Perry in 1913 . He won silver 16 times and bronze nine times.

Paroche was a captain in the French army .

Web links

• Achille Paroche in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )