Henri Gance
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Born | 17 March 1888 Paris, France | ||||||||||
Died | 29 November 1953 (aged 65) Paris, France | ||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||
Weight | 75 kg (165 lb) | ||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||
Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||
Club | Cercle Athlétique Parisien | ||||||||||
Medal record
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Henri Gance (17 March 1888 – 29 November 1953) was a French weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.[1][2]
Gance took up weightlifting in 1908 and was a French champion in 1920.[1][3]
References[]
- ^ a b Henri Gance Archived 8 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Sports Reference.com
- ^ "1920 Summer Olympics – Antwerp, Belgium – Weightlifting" Archived 22 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 19 February 2008).
- ^ "Henri Gance". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
External links[]
- Henri Gance at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1888 births
- 1953 deaths
- Sportspeople from Paris
- French male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters of France
- Weightlifters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- French weightlifting biography stubs
- French Olympic medalist stubs