1924 Winter Olympics / Participant (France)

FRA

France participated in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix with a delegation of 40 athletes in 6 sports.

Balance sheet

France sent the largest Olympic team to Chamonix as hosts. In terms of performance, a French medal was expected in ice hockey. The bronze medal of the young figure skating couple Andrée Joly and Pierre Brunet is all the more gratifying . The curlers and the military patrol also won bronze, which, however, in view of the small number of participants in the two disciplines should not be regarded as a “big” surprise. The 33-year-old military patrol captain Camille Mandrillon was the spokesman for the Olympic oath . From today's perspective an absurdity. The 30 km military patrol run subsequently became a demonstration sport in 1926degraded. Thus, an athlete from a non-Olympic discipline took the athletes' oath. As already mentioned, the ice hockey players were the greatest hope for a medal. After all, France became vice European champion in 1923 . However, the team around captain Alfred de Rauch disappointed and eliminated in the preliminary round. The ice hockey player Léonhard Quaglia , who also competed in speed skating and even finished sixth in the all-around competition, was the undisputed superstar in the entire French Olympic team.

Medals

With three bronze medals won the French team finished 9th in the medal count .

bronze

Names	sport	F / M	competition
Andrée Joly and Pierre Brunet	figure skating		Pair skating
Fernand Cournollet , Georges André , Armand Bénédic , Pierre Canivet , Henri Aldebert (Res.) And Robert Planque (Res.)	Curling		team
Georges Berthet , Camille Mandrillon , Maurice Mandrillon and André Vandelle The bronze medal of the military patrol, as it was a demonstration competition, is not counted in all scores.	Military patrol		30 km, team classification

Attendees

The French NOK had registered 65 athletes for the games, 40 of whom took part in competitions. Members of the military patrol do not count as official Olympic athletes. Three athletes started in different sports (see list of participants). A total of five athletes took part in the Olympic Games for the second time:

• Pierre Charpentier (1920 ice hockey)
• Léonhard Quaglia (1920 ice hockey)
• Alfred de Rauch (1920 ice hockey)
• Charles Sabouret (1920 figure skating)
• Simone Sabouret (1920 figure skating)

Participants by sport

Bobsleigh

Four- man bobsleigh I (4th place)

• Henri Aldebert also curling
• Georges André also curling
• André Berg pilot
• Jean Marquis de Suarez d'Aulan

4- man bobsleigh II (dnf)

• Georges Izard
• Jacques Jany
• Etienne Legrand pilot
• Francois Legrand

Reserve: R. de la Fregeoliere, E. Lemaitre, H. Maux Saint-Marc, F. Verne

Curling

Curling team

• Henri Aldebert (dns) also bobsleigh
• Georges André also bobsleigh
• Armand Isaac-Bénédic
• Pierre Canivet
• Henri Cournollet Skip
• Robert Planque (dns)

ice Hockey

Ice hockey team (5th place)

• André Charlet
• Pierre Charpentier
• Jacques Chaudron
• Raoul envelope
• Alfred de Rauch captain
• Maurice del Valle
• Albert Hassler also used speed skating
• Charles Lavaivre
• Bobby Monnard
• Calixte Payot
• Philippe Payot
• Léonhard Quaglia also used speed skating

Reserve: P.-E. Bouillin, L. Brasseur, Henri Couttet, Georges de Wilde ( also speed skating ), Hubert Levy-Grunwald, G. Simond

figure skating

• Pierre Brunet

  Men (8th place), pair skating

• Andrée Joly

  Women (5th place), pair skating

• André Malinet

  Men (11th place)

• Charles Sabouret

  Pair skating (9th place)

• Simone Sabouret

  Pair skating (9th place)

Speed ​​skating

• George De Wilde

  500 m (21st place), 1,500 m (18th place), 5,000 m (19th place), 10,000 m (dnf), all-around (dnf) also ice hockey

• André Gegout

  500 m (20th place), 1,500 m (16th place), 5,000 m (18th place), 10,000 m (15th place), all-around (9th place)

• Albert Hassler

  500 m (18th place), 1,500 m (dns), 5,000 m (dns), all-around (dnf) also ice hockey

• Léonhard Quaglia

  500 m (15th place), 1,500 m (14th place), 5,000 m (9th place), 10,000 m (7th place), all-around (6th place) also ice hockey

Military patrol

30 km military patrol

• Georges Berthet
• Camille Mandrillon captain
• Maurice Mandrillon
• André Vandelle also ski

Nordic skiing

• Louis Albert

  Ski jumping (dnf)

• Kléber Balmat

  Nordic combined (10th place), ski jumping (15th place)

• André Bluffet

  50 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• Denis Couttet

  18 km cross-country skiing (dnf)

• André C. Medy

  50 km cross-country skiing (18th place)

• Martial Payot

  18 km cross-country skiing (dnf), Nordic combined (dnf), ski jumping (25th place)

• André Perrin

  50 km cross-country skiing (16th place)

• Edouard Poutail-Noble

  50 km cross-country skiing (15th place)

• Gilbert Ravanel

  18 km cross-country skiing (20th place), Nordic combined (18th place), ski jumping (22nd place)

• André Vandelle

  18 km cross-country skiing (29th place), Nordic combined (20th place) also military patrol

Web links

• Official Report of the Olympic Games 1924 (PDF; 87.6 MB)