Paul Lagarde
{{Short description|French pole vaulter}}
{{For|the German polymath|Paul de Lagarde}}
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|birth_date= 15 April 1891
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Paul Lagarde (born 15 April 1891 - 7 February 1964) was a French pole vaulter, who comepted at the Olympic Games.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68331 |title=Paul Lagarde |work=Olympedia |access-date=19 July 2021}}
Biography
Lagarde finished second behind Kálmán Szathmáry in the pole jump event at the 1910 AAA Championships{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001708/19100704/076/0004 |title=Athletics |work=Evening Star |date=3 July 1910 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=1 November 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19100704/218/0006 |title=AAA Championships |work=The Scotsman |date=4 July 1910 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 November 2024 }} and repeated the feat the following year at the 1911 AAA Championships, when he finished second again, this time behind Robert Pasemann.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000289/19110703/161/0007 |title=Amateur Athletic Championship |work=Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette |date=3 July 1911 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=1 November 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19110703/088/0006 |title=AAA Champions |work=Sporting Life |date=3 July 1911 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=1 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=1 November 2024 }}
Lagarde competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in the pole jump and finished 11th.
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Category:Date of death unknown
Category:French male pole vaulters
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for France
Category:20th-century French sportsmen
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