Olympic Winter Games 1948 / Participant (France)

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France took part in the 5th Winter Olympics in St. Moritz in 1948 with a delegation of 36 athletes, eight of them women.

Male participants from France
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
bob	René Charlet Jean Morin Jacques Descatoire Amédée Ronzel	Four-man bobsleigh	9	France I.
	Gilbert Achart-Picart Felix Bonnat Louis Saint-Calbre Henri Evrot	Four-man bobsleigh	13	France II
	Achille Fould Henri Evrot	Two-man bobsleigh	11	France I.
	William Hirigoyen Louis Saint-Calbre	Two-man bobsleigh	12	France II
figure skating	Jacques Favart	Pair skating	14th	together with Denise Favart
skeleton	William Hirigoyen	-	dnf
Alpine skiing	James Couttet	Departure	13
		combination
		slalom
	Guy de Huertas	Departure	23
	Desirè Lacroix	slalom	15th
	Henri Oreiller	Departure
		combination
		slalom
	Georges Panisset	Departure	23
		combination	18th
	Jean Pazzi	Departure	33
	Claude Penz	Departure	34
		combination	24
		slalom	34
Nordic skiing	René Jeandel Gérard Perrier Marius Mora Benoît Carrara	4 × 10 km cross-country skiing	7th
	Paul Bouveret	18 km cross-country skiing	48
	André Buffard	18 km cross-country skiing	44
	Benoît Carrara	18 km cross-country skiing	11
	Regis Charlet	Special jumping	26th
	James Couttet	Special jumping	25th
	René Jeandel	18 km cross-country skiing	42
		combination	19th
	Walter Jeandel	18 km cross-country skiing	71
		combination	30th
	Arsène Luchini	Special jumping	22nd
	Jean Monnier	Special jumping	31
	Marius Mora	18 km cross-country skiing	37
Female participants from France
sport	athlete	discipline	space	comment
figure skating	Jacqueline du Bief	Ladies	16
	Denise Favart	Pair skating	14th	together with Jacques Favart
Alpine skiing	Fernande Bayetto	Departure	21st
	Micheline Desmazières	Departure	29
	Françoise Gignoux	Departure	7th
		combination	5
		slalom	12
	Georgette Miller-Thiollière	Departure	31
		combination	20th
		slalom	4th
	Lucienne Schmidt-Couttet	Departure	10
		combination	10
		slalom	20th
	Suzanne Thiollière	Departure	6th
		combination	10
		slalom	dnf

Web links

• French Olympic team 1948 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Overview of the French sports soldiers at the 1948 Winter Games (PDF; 174 kB)