Olympic history of France

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France , whose NOK , the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français was founded in 1894 andrecognized bythe IOC in the year the IOC was founded, has been taking part in the Summer Olympics since 1896. Since 1924 athletes have also been sent to the winter games.

Host

In Paris in June 1894, during the first Olympic Congress, on an initiative of Pierre de Coubertin, the resumption of the Olympic Games and the establishment of the IOV were decided. In 1900 Paris was the venue for the 2nd Modern Summer Olympics , which took place as part of the World's Fair . The games took place there a second time in 1924 . In addition, three Olympic Winter Games were held in France with Chamonix in 1924 , Grenoble in 1968 and Albertville in 1992 .

Paris is also bidding for the 2024 Summer Olympics . On August 1, 2017, the IOC announced that these games would be held in Paris as it was the only remaining applicant. The French had already applied for 1992, 2008 and 2012 and had failed.

Participation

France is one of the few countries to have taken part in all the Olympic Games so far. A total of 5,915 athletes, including 1,049 women, competed.

Summer games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees
1896 Athens		13
1900 Paris		491
1904 St. Louis		1
1908 London		363
1912 Stockholm	Raoul Paoli	119
1920 Antwerp	Émile Ecuyer	304
1924 Paris	Géo André	401
1928 Amsterdam	Pierre Lewden	255
1932 Los Angeles	Jules Noël	103
1936 Berlin	Jules Noël	201
1948 London	Jean Séphériadès	316
1952 Helsinki	Ignace Heinrich	245
1956 Melbourne	Jean Debuf	137
1960 Rome	Christian d'Oriola	238
1964 Tokyo	Michel Macquet	138
1968 Mexico City	Christine Caron	200
1972 Munich	Jean-Claude Magnan	227
1976 Montreal	Daniel Morelon	206
1980 Moscow		121
1984 Los Angeles	Angelo Parisi	238
1988 Seoul	Philippe Riboud	266
1992 Barcelona	Jean-François Lamour	339
1996 Atlanta	Marie-José Pérec	299
2000 Sydney	David Douillet	336
2004 Athens	Jackson Richardson	308
2008 Beijing	Tony Estanguet	323
2012 London	Laura Flessel	330
2016 Rio	Teddy Riner	395

Winter games

year	Flag bearer	Attendees
1924 Chamonix	Camille Mandrillon	43
1928 St. Moritz	Jean Thorailler	38
1932 Lake Placid	Georges Torchon	8th
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Jacques Faure	28
1948 St. Moritz	James Couttet	36
1952 Oslo	Alain Giletti	26th
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	James Couttet	32
1960 Squaw Valley	Benoît Carrara	26th
1964 Innsbruck	Alain Calmat	24
1968 Grenoble	Gilbert Poirot	75
1972 Sapporo	Patrick Péra	40
1976 Innsbruck	Danièle Debernard	35
1980 Lake Placid	Fabienne Serrat	22nd
1984 Lake Placid	Yvon Mougel	32
1988 Calgary	Catherine quits	68
1992 Albertville	Fabrice Guy	109
1994 Lillehammer	Anne Briand	98
1998 Nagano	Philippe Candeloro	106
2002 Salt Lake City	Carole Montillet	114
2006 Turin	Bruno Mingeon	82
2010 Vancouver	Vincent Defrasne	108
2014 Sochi	Jason Lamy-Chappuis	116

Medals

See also : List of Olympic medalists from France

Athletes from France have so far won 823 medals, 714 of them at summer and 109 at winter games. In the all-time medal table , France ranks fifth (as of 2016). The most successful for the French were the 1900 Games in their own country: With 26 gold medals, they finished first in the nation's ranking for the only time so far. They also succeeded in doing this at the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens, which, however, are not officially counted as part of the Olympic Games by the IOC.

The French team won the most gold medals in fencing (42) and cycling (41). The most successful athletes are also all fencers: Christian d'Oriola and Lucien Gaudin each won 4 gold medals, Philippe Cattiau and Roger Ducret (8 each) have the most medals . The most successful at the Winter Games were the skier Jean-Claude Killy (3 gold medals, all 1968 ) and the biathlete Martin Fourcade (4 medals, including 2 gold). In 2014, Jean-Frédéric Chapuis , Arnaud Bovolenta and Jonathan Midol took the first three places in ski cross (freestyle skiing) , which French athletes only achieved once in an Olympic competition since 1948.

The youngest medalist was the rower Noël Vandernotte in 1936 at the age of 12, and the oldest medalist in 1900 at the age of 71 was the sailor William Martin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympic Summer Games 2024: Paris becomes the official opponent of Hamburg. Spiegel Online, June 23, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Olympia - 2024 in Paris, 2028 in LA In: tagesschau.de. Tagesschau , August 1, 2017, accessed on August 1, 2017 . 

Web links

• France in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• France on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)