Claude Bourquard

Claude Bourquard medal table
fencing
France
Olympic games
bronze	Tokyo 1964	Epee team
World championships
bronze	Budapest 1959	Epee team
silver	Turin 1961	Epee team
gold	Buenos Aires 1962	Epee team
silver	Gdansk 1963	Epee team
gold	Paris 1965	Epee team
silver	Moscow 1966	Sword
gold	Moscow 1966	Epee team
silver	Montreal 1967	Epee team

Claude Bourquard (born March 5, 1937 in Belfort ) is a former French sword fencer .

successes

Claude Bourquard was world champion with the team in Buenos Aires in 1962 , in Paris in 1965 and in Moscow in 1966 . He also won with her in 1961 in Turin , 1963 in Gdansk and in 1967 in Montreal Silver and 1959 in Budapest bronze. In singles, he succeeded in 1966 in Moscow winning the runner-up world championship. He took part in the Olympic Games twice: At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo he reached the battle for third place with the French team, in which Sweden won 9: 6 after an 8: 8 draw due to the better hit ratio of 64:59 was defeated. Together with Jacques Guittet , Claude Brodin , Jacques Brodin and Yves Dreyfus , Bourquard received the bronze medal. He finished the individual competition in sixth place. In 1968 he finished seventh with the team in Mexico City , while he was eliminated in the individual in the first round. In 1967 he became French single champion with the sword.

Web links

• Claude Bourquard in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )