Gaston Heuet
{{Short description|French long-distance runner (1892–1979)}}
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{{Use British English|date=November 2024}}
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|image=Gaston Heuet 1922.jpg
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|caption=Gaston Heuet in 1922
|birth_date=11 November 1892
|birth_place= Buenos Aires, Argentina
| death_date = 18 January 1979 (aged 86)
| death_place = Grandvilliers, Oise, France
| height = {{convert|1.60|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|49|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport=Athletics
|event= 1500–10,000 m
|club=Métropolitain Club Colombes;
VC Beauvais
|pb= 1500 m – 4:08.0 (1919)
5000 m – 15:23.2 (1922)
10,000 m – 32:11.1 (1920)
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Gaston Heuet (11 November 1892 – 18 January 1979) was a French long-distance runner, who comepted at the Olympic Games.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68294 |title=Gaston Heuet |work=Olympedia |access-date=19 April 2021}}
Career
Heuet finished third behind Joe Blewitt in the 4 miles event at the British 1920 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003358/19200704/166/0010 |title=The Athletic Championships |work=Weekly Dispatch (London) |date=4 July 1920 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 November 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000569/19200705/204/0009 |title=Athletics |work=Newcastle Journal |date=5 July 1920 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 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=23 November 2024 }}
Heuet won a bronze medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics in the cross country team event, together with Henri Lauvaux and Maurice Norland. He won another cross-country bronze medal at the 1919 Inter-Allied Games.
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Category:Athletes from Buenos Aires
Category:French male long-distance runners
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for France
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for France
Category:Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
Category:Olympic cross country runners
Category:20th-century French sportsmen
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