Géo André
Géo André 
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| Full name | Georges Ivan André | |||||||||
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 France
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| birthday | August 13, 1889 | |||||||||
| place of birth | Paris , France | |||||||||
| size | 188 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 85 kg | |||||||||
| date of death | May 4, 1943 | |||||||||
| Place of death | Bizerta , Tunisia | |||||||||
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| discipline | Hurdles , sprint , high jump , decathlon | |||||||||
| Best performance | 100 m: 11.0 s; 200 m: 22.6 s; 400 m: 49.0 s 110 m hurdles: 15.4 s; 400 m hurdles: 54.8 s high jump: 1.88 m |
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| society | Racing Club de France | |||||||||
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Géo André (actually Georges Yvan André ; born August 13, 1889 in Paris , † May 4, 1943 in Bizerta , Tunisia ) was a French athlete who took part in the Olympic Games four times, and rugby union player.
At the Olympic Games in London in 1908 , he shared the silver medal with Con Leahy and István Somodi in the high jump with a jump of 1.88 m , behind Harry Porter (1.905 m). In the standing vault , he was fifth.
In 1912 in Stockholm he was eliminated in the high jump, standing high jump and standing long jump in the preliminary round. In the 110-meter hurdles he reached the semi-finals, in the pentathlon he finished 22nd, and in the decathlon he gave up after seven disciplines.
In 1913 and 1914 he played seven times in the French national rugby union team .
At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 he was fourth in the 400-meter hurdles and reached the semifinals in the 400-meter run . In the 4 x 400 meter relay , he won bronze as part of the French team.
Four years later he took the Olympic oath at the opening ceremony of the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris . He finished fourth again over 400 m hurdles.
In the high jump he was six times (1907–1909, 1911, 1914, 1919), in the standing vault also six times (1909, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1919, 1920), in the 110-meter hurdles four times (1908, 1914, 1919, 1922 ) and in the 400 meter hurdles five times (1913, 1914, 1919, 1920, 1922) national champion.
French records:
- 110 m hurdles
- 15.8s, July 5, 1908, Saint-Cloud
- 15.6 s, August 13, 1922, Geneva
- 400 m hurdles
- high jump
- 1.79 m, May 20, 1907, Saint-Cloud
- 1.88 m, July 21, 1908, London
Géo André started for the Stade Français club until 1908 , then for the Racing Club de France .
Web links
- Géo André in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Entry at ESPNscrum
Footnotes
- ↑ Géo André in the trackfield.brinkster.net database , accessed on June 6, 2019.
- ↑ FFA: Les finalistes des championnats de France - 1888 à 1969 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- ↑ FFA: Chronologie des records de France performances ne figurant pas dans le SIFFA (PDF; 850 kB)
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| SURNAME | André, Géo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | André, Georges Yvan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French athlete and rugby union player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1943 |
| Place of death | Bizerta |