René Lemoine

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René Lemoine (1931)
René Lemoine (1931)

fencing

France 1946Fourth French Republic France
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold Los Angeles 1932 Foil team
silver Berlin 1936 Foil team
fencing World championships
silver Liege 1930 Foil team
gold Vienna 1931 foil
silver Warsaw 1934 Foil team
gold Warsaw 1934 Epee team
silver Lausanne 1935 Foil team
bronze Paris 1937 foil
gold Paris 1937 Foil team

René Alphonse Lemoine (born December 29, 1905 in Nancy , † December 19, 1995 in Paris ) was a French fencer .

Life

René Lemoine was world champion with the foil in Vienna in 1931 and also won this title in Warsaw in 1934 with the Degen team and in Paris in 1937 with the foil team. With the latter he won another three silver medals between 1930 and 1935. He took part in two Olympic Games : in 1932 in Los Angeles , he moved into the finals with the foil team. There there was a playoff against Italy and the United States , in which France prevailed in each case. Together with René Bougnol , Philippe Cattiau , Édward Gardère , René Bondoux and Jean Piot , he became Olympic champion . He finished the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 with the team in silver after the French team had to admit defeat against Italy in the final this time. In the individual competition he was eliminated in the semifinals.

Lemoine, son of a manager at Peugeot , studied mathematics and law . After studying in Chad , he became a coffee farmer in Equatorial Guinea and worked in the export business for colonial goods. During the Second World War , Lemoine became the leader of the Resistance in Bangui in the Central African Republic , from where he supported the Forces françaises libres . In 1940 he was captured by the Vichy regime and released after a month and a half. He then fought in Madagascar and North Africa . Lemoine was made an officer of the Legion of Honor and was awarded the Croix de guerre for his services . After the war he traded in agricultural products again.

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