1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (France)

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France took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 238 athletes (210 men and 28 women) in 120 competitions in 19 sports. These games were not very successful for the nation, only two silver and three bronze medals could be won, which put them in 25th place in the medal table. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the fencer Christian d'Oriola .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 10th place

• Roger Antoine
• Philippe Baillet
• Christian Baltzer
• Louis Bertorelle
• Jean-Paul Beugnot
• Jérôme Christ
• Jean Degros
• Max Dorigo
• Henri Grange
• Bernard Mayeur
• Robert Monclar
• Henri Villecourt

Boxing

Men

• Jacques Cotot
• Souleymane Diallo
• Jean Josselin
• André Juncker
• Yoland Levèque
• Jean Parra
• Antoine Porcel
• Joseph Syoz

fencing

Men Claude Arabo Guy Barrabino Claude Brodin Roger Closset Jacky Courtillat Christian d'Oriola Yves Dreyfus Claude Gamot Jack Guittet Jacques Lefèvre Gérard Lefranc Jean-Claude Magnan Armand Mouyal Claude Netter Marcel Parent Jacques Roulot

Women Kate Delbarre Renée Garilhe Monique le Roux Françoise Mailliard Regine Veronnet

Soccer

Men

• Group stage

• Ahmed Arab
• Marcel Artelesa
• Gérard Aygoui
• Raymond Baratto
• Pierre Bodin
• Jean-Baptiste Bordas
• Gérard Coinçon
• Claude Dubaële
• Jean-Marie Élisé
• François Philippe
• André Giamarchi
• Gines Gonzales
• Marcel Loncle
• Louis Polonia
• Yvon Quédec
• Charles Samoy
• Max Samper
• Jacques trunk
• Jean Wettstein

Weightlifting

Men

• Jean Debuf
• Robert Delebarre
• Roger Gerber
• Rolf Maier
• Marcel Paterni
• François Vincent

hockey

Men

• 10th place

• Yvan Bia
• Roger Bignon
• Jacques Bonnet
• Pierre Court
• Jean Desmasures
• Maurice Dobigny
• Claude Dugardin
• Claude Leroy
• Diran Manoukian
• Ido Marang
• Jacques Mauchien
• Gérard Poulain
• Philippe Reynaud
• Albert Vanpoulle
• Claude Windal
• Jean-Pierre Windal

canoe

Men Henri Amazouze Pierre Derivery Jean Friquet Fredy Grosheny Jean Houde Michel Meyer Michel Picard Georges Turlier

Women Gabrielle Lutz

athletics

Men Hamida Addèche Pierre Alard Hamoud Ameur Jacques Arnoux Eric Battista Michel Bernard Robert Bogey Ali Brakchi Christian Collardot Jocelyn Delecour Henri Delerue Jacques Déprez Marcel Duriez Maurice Fournier Paul Genevay Paul Genève Guy Husson Mahamat Idriss Michel Jazy Silver 1500 m Pierre-Yvon Lenoir Michel Macquet Alain Mimoun Claude Piquemal Edmond Roudnitska Abdoulaye Seye Bronze 200 m Victor Sillon Léon Syrovatski Guy Texereau Pierre William

Women Simone Brièrre Catherine Capdevielle Maryvonne Dupureur Nicole Goullieux Denise Laborie-Guénard Florence Pétry-Amiel Madeleine Thétu

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Christian Beauvalet
• André Bernard
• Étienne Jalenques

Cycling

Men

• Guy Claud
• Marcel Delattre
• Henri Duez
• Jacques Gestraut
• André Gruchet
• François Hamon
• Roland Lacombe
• Michel Nédélec
• Antoine Pellegrina
• Raymond Reaux
• Michel Scob
• Jacques Simon
• Jacques Suire
• Roland Surrugue

horse riding

• Pierre Durand, Sr.

  Bronze Eventing Team

• Bernard de Fombelle
• Max Fresson
• Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola
• Jack Le Goff

  Bronze Eventing Team

• Jéhan Le Roy

  Bronze Eventing Team

• Guy Lefrant

  Bronze Eventing Team

Wrestling

Men

• Georges Ballery
• Roger Bielle
• Gilbert Dubier
• Maurice Jacquel
• André Lamy
• Roger Mannhard
• Jacques Pourtau
• René Schiermeyer

  Bronze welterweight Greco-Roman

• André Zoete

rowing

Men

• Jean-Pierre Bellet
• Alain Bouffard
• Émile Clerc
• René Duhamel
• Robert Dumontois

  Silver foursome with helmsman

• Jean Klein

  Silver foursome with helmsman

• Jean Ledoux
• Claude Martin

  Silver foursome with helmsman

• Gaston Mercier
• Bernard Meynadier
• Jacques Morel

  Silver foursome with helmsman

• Bernard Monnereau
• Joseph Moroni
• Guy Nosbaum

  Silver foursome with helmsman

• Christian Puibaraud
• Michel Viaud

shoot

• Jacques Decaux
• Claude Foussier
• Pierre Guy
• Serge Hubert
• Marcel Otto-Bruc
• Jean Renaux
• Georges Wahler

swim

Men Richard Audoly Jean Boiteux Roland Boullanger Robert Christophe Jean-Pascal Curtillet Alain Gottvallès Gérard Gropaiz Marc Kamoun Jean Pommat Claude Raffy Henri Vidil

Women Annie Caron Nadine Delache Héda Frost Marie-Laure Gaillot Colette Libourel Amélie Mirkowitch Rosy Piacentini Michèle Pialat

sailing

• Pierre Buret
• Louis Chauvot
• Jean-Claude Cornu
• Noël Desaubliaux
• Daniel Gouffier
• Jacques Baptiste Lebrun
• Jean Peytel
• Yves-Louis Pinaud
• Georges Pisani
• Philippe Reinhart
• François Thierry-Mieg

do gymnastics

Men Robert Caymaris Bernard Fauqueux Jean Jaillard Mohamed Lazhari Michel Mathiot Daniel Touche

Women Anne-Marie Demortière Jacqueline Dieudonné Renée Hugon Paulette le Raer Monique Rossi Danièle Sicot-Coulon

Water polo

Men

• Preliminary round

• René Daubinet
• Gérard Faetibolt
• Claude Greder
• Claude Haas
• Alex Jany
• Charles Lambert
• André Lochon
• Jacques Meslier
• Roland Moellé
• Roger Neubauer
• Jean-Paul Weil

Diving

Men Christian Pire Henri Rouquet Georges Senecot

Women Nicole Péllissard-Darrigrand

Web links

• French Olympic team from 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )