Raoul de Boigne

Raoul de Boigne medal table
Sport shooting
France
Olympic games
bronze	London 1908	FG three position fight 300 m (M)
Olympic Intermediate Games
silver	Athens 1906	Military revolver 20 m (1874)
bronze	Athens 1906	300 m military rifle
bronze	Athens 1906	FG three position fight 300 m (M)

Marie Joseph "Raoul" le Borgne, Count de Boigne (born December 25, 1862 in Geneva , Switzerland , † May 19, 1949 in Ouveillan ) was a French sports shooter .

successes

Raoul de Boigne took part in the 1908 Olympic Games in London and in 1912 in Stockholm and at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens in part. In the latter, he competed in twelve disciplines and won a medal in three. With the military revolver from the model year 1874, he took second place, while he came third with the military rifle over 300 m. In the three-position fight with the free rifle, he won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Léon Moreaux , Jean Fouconnier , Maurice Fauré and Maurice Lecoq . Two years later he secured the bronze medal with Eugène Balme , Albert Courquin , Léon Johnson , Maurice Lecoq and André Parmentier with the free rifle in the three-position battle behind Norway and Sweden. He finished the team competition with the army rifle over six distances in fourth place. In the individual at the 1000-yard distance he was sixth with the free rifle. At the Olympic Games in 1912, he did not succeed in any of the three individual rifle disciplines with the army rifle or the free rifle, placing himself among the top 50 shooters. He finished the team competitions in fourth and fifth place.

Web links

• Raoul de Boigne in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )