Charles Collignon

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Charles Collignon (1908, seated, third from left)
Charles Collignon (1908, seated, third from left)

fencing

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gold London 1908 Epee team

Charles Edgar Collignon (born September 7, 1877 in Paris , † after 1908) was a French sword fencer .

successes

Charles Collignon took part in the 1908 Olympic Games in London . In the individual, he was eliminated in the second round, while in the team competition with the French team after victories over Denmark and Great Britain in the battle for gold against Belgium . France remained victorious in this, so that Collignon was Olympic champion together with Gaston Alibert , Herman Georges Berger , Bernard Gravier , Alexandre Lippmann , Eugène Olivier and Jean Stern .

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