1932 Summer Olympics / Participant (France)

FRA

10	5	4th

France took part in the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles with a delegation of 103 athletes (97 men and 6 women) in 57 competitions in 13 competitions.

The French athletes won ten gold, five silver and four bronze medals, with France taking third place in the medal table. Three gold medals were won in weightlifting, two gold medals each in horse riding and two in fencing. The remaining Olympic victories are in sailing, cycling and wrestling. In the art competitions that did not count towards the medal table, three French artists secured another gold medal.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Gaston Fayaud

  Flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Paul Nicolas

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Henri Walter

  Featherweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Gaston Mayor

  Lightweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Lucien Laplace

  Welterweight: Eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Roger Michelot

  Middleweight: 4th place

fencing

Men

• René Bougnol

  Foil: 8th place

  Foil team: gold

• Philippe Cattiau

  Foil: 9th place

  Epee: 6th place

  Foil team: gold

  Epee team: gold

• Edward Gardère

  Foil: eliminated in the semi-finals

  Saber: eliminated in the semifinals

  Foil team: gold

• René Lemoine

  Foil team: gold

• René Bondoux

  Foil team: gold

• Jean Piot

  Saber: eliminated in the semifinals

  Foil team: gold

  Epee team: gold

• Georges Buchard

  Epee: silver

  Epee team: gold

• Bernard Schmetz

  Epee: 5th place

  Epee team: gold

• Fernand Jourdant

  Epee team: gold

• Georges Tainturier

  Epee team: gold

Women

• Jeanne Vical

  Foil: eliminated in the preliminary round

Weightlifting

• Raymond Suvigny

  Featherweight: gold

• René Duverger

  Lightweight: gold

• Roger François

  Middleweight: 4th place

• Louis hostess

  Light Heavyweight: Gold

• Marcel Dumoulin

  Heavyweight: 4th place

Art competitions

• Henri Zo
• Jean-Elie Vézien
• Kees Van Dongen
• Pierre Toulgouat
• Henri Royer
• René Xavier Prinet
• Henri Pinguenet
• Eugène Pechaubes
• Roger Nivelt
• Suzanne Muzanne
• Paul Moreau-Vauthier
• Paul Morchain
• Pierre Montezin
• Henri Raphaël Moncassin
• Marcel Mérignargues
• Albert Matignon
• Georges Malissard
• Louis Malespina
• Philippe Le Molt
• Abel Lafleur
• Feliks Łabuński
• Adrienne Jouclard
• Lucien Jonas
• Édouard Fraisse
• Robert Fernier
• Maurice Ehlinger
• André Dunoyer de Segonzac
• Héléne Dufau
• Raoul du Gardier
• Louis Denis-Valverane
• Hermione David
• Georges Dantu
• Gaston D'Illiers
• François Clémencin
• Louis Botinelly
• Gustave Saacké
• Architectural designs: gold
• Pierre Montenot
• Architectural designs: gold
• Pierre Bailly
• Architectural designs: gold

athletics

Men

• Séra Martin

  800 m: 8th place

• René Morel

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Jean Keller

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Roger Rochard

  5000 m: race not finished

• François Bégeot

  Marathon: 16th place

• André Adelheim

  400 m hurdles: eliminated in the semifinals

• Roger Vigneron

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Henri Quintric

  50 km walking: 7th place

• Claude Ménard

  High jump: 9th place

• Jules Noël

  Shot put: 10th place

  Discus throw: 4th place

• Clement Duhour

  Shot put: 12th place

  Discus throw: 16th place

• Paul Winter

  Shot put: 13th place

  Discus throw: bronze

Modern pentathlon

• Ivan Duranthon

  Singles: 10th place

Cycling

• Paul Chocque

  Road race: 10th place

  Road team classification: 5th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: silver

• Amédée Fournier

  Road race: 13th place

  Road team classification: 5th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: silver

• Henri Mouillefarine

  Road race: 14th place

  Road team classification: 5th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: silver

• Georges Conan

  Road race: 24th place

• Louis Chaillot

  Track Sprint: Silver

  Rail tandem: gold

• Charles Rampelberg

  Track 1000 m time trial: bronze

• Maurice Perrin

  Rail tandem: gold

• René Le Grevès

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: silver

horse riding

• Xavier Lesage

  Dressage: gold

  Dressage team: gold

• Charles Marion

  Dressage: silver

  Dressage team: gold

• André Jousseaume

  Dressage: 5th place

  Dressage team: gold

Wrestling

• Louis François

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

• Émile Poilvé

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

  Middleweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Julien Depuychaffray

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Jean Chasson

  Featherweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Charles Pacôme

  Lightweight, freestyle: gold

rowing

• Marcel Vandernotte

  Two without a helmsman: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Fernand Vandernotte

  Two without a helmsman: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Pierre Brunet

  Two with helmsman: bronze

• André Giriat

  Two with helmsman: bronze

• Anselme Brusa

  Two with helmsman: bronze

swim

Men

• Jean Taris

  400 m freestyle: silver

  1500 m freestyle: 6th place

• Marcel Noual

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Ulysse Cartonnet

  200 m chest: eliminated in the semifinals

• Alfred Schoebel

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Yvonne Godard

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  400 m freestyle: 5th place

sailing

• Jacques Lebrun

  Snowbird: gold

• Jean Peytel

  Star: 5th place

• Jean-Jacques Herbulot

  Star: 5th place

Diving

• Émile Poussard

  3 m jumping: 7th place

Web links

• French Olympic team from 1932 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )