Paul Colas

Paul Colas medal table
Paul Colas (1912)
Sport shooting
France
Olympic games
bronze	London 1908	KK lying 50 m (M)
gold	Stockholm 1912	FG three position fight 300 m
gold	Stockholm 1912	Army rifle 600 m
silver	Paris 1924	FG 400 + 600 + 800 m (M)
World championships
silver	Rome 1911	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Biarritz 1912	FG lying
silver	Biarritz 1912	FG three position fight (M)
silver	Camp Perry 1913	FG three position fight (M)
bronze	Camp Perry 1913	AG standing
bronze	Lyon 1921	FG three position fight (M)

Paul René Colas (born May 6, 1880 in Paris , † September 9, 1956 there ) was a French sports shooter .

successes

Paul Colas participated in four Olympic Games . In 1908 he made his Olympic debut in London , where he finished behind in the individual disciplines with the free rifle. In the team competition with the small bore rifle in the prone position , he secured the bronze medal when he scored 710 points together with André Regaud , Léon Lécuyer and Henri Bonnéfoy, finishing third behind Great Britain and Sweden. At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , he won gold twice in five disciplines. With the army rifle he was just as Olympic champion over 600 m as with the free rifle in the three-position fight over 300 m. While Colas in 1920 in Antwerp remained without a medal, he succeeded in 1924 in Paris , in the only competition for which he took the silver medal. In the team competition with the free rifle over the distances of 400, 600 and 800 m, he finished second with Émile Rumeau , Albert Courquin , Pierre Hardy and Georges Roes behind the Americans and ahead of the Haiti team.

Colas won a total of six medals at world championships , two of them in singles. In 1912 he took second place in Biarritz with the free rifle in the prone position, the following year at Camp Perry he finished the competition with the army rifle in the standing position in third place. His other medals he won with the team in the three-position fight with the free rifle.

Web links

• Paul Colas in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )