Fernand Gonder
{{Short description|French pole vaulter (1883–1969)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2024}}
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| image = Fernand Gonder 1911.jpg
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| caption = Gonder in 1911
| birth_date = 12 June 1883
| birth_place = Bordeaux, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|3|10|1883|6|12|df=yes}}{{cite web|last = Dupuy|first = Gérard|url = http://cdm.athle.com/upload/ssites/001059/jeux%20olympiques/hommesfp200507.pdf|title = Les Jeux Olympiques|date = 20 May 2017|publisher = French Athletics Federation|access-date = 17 August 2017}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
| death_place = Tonnay-Charente, France
| height = 170 cm
| weight = 65 kg
| sport = Athletics
| event = Pole vault, long jump
| club = SA Bordeaux (1904–1906 and 1914)
FC Talence (1907–1912)
CA Bègles (1913)
| pb = PV – 3.83 m (1905)
LJ – 6.54 m (1907)
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{{MedalCompetition | Intercalated Games }}
{{Medal|Gold | 1906 Athens | Pole vault }}
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Fernand Gonder (12 June 1883 – 10 March 1969) was a French pole vaulter who won the gold medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68266 |title=Fernand Gonder |work=Olympedia |access-date=27 April 2021}}
Career
Gonder was selected to represent France at the 1906 Olympic Games and won gold in the pole jump event. Four years later at the 1912 Summer Olympics he finished 15th in the same event.
Gonder was the French champion in 1904, 1905, 1913 and 1914, finishing second in 1912. Gonder also won the British AAA Championships title in the pole jump event at the 1905 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19050703/347/0012 |title=Amateur Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=3 July 1905 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=19 August 2024}} He returned in 1913 to claim third place behind Swedes Clas Gille and Carl Hårleman at the 1913 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19130707/225/0014 |title=Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=7 July 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }} {{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=19 August 2024}}
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Category:French male pole vaulters
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for France
Category:Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Category:20th-century French sportsmen
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