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.

References

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417193916/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/la/paul-lagarde-1.html Paul Lagarde]. sports-reference.com

[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=3698&Gender=M Paul Lagarde]. trackfield.brinkster.net

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Category:1891 births

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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