Raymond Boisset

{{short description|French sprinter}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Raymond Boisset

| birth_name =

| image = Raymond Boisset, champion de France du 400 mètres en 1934.jpg

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| nationality = French

| sport = Sprinting

| event = 400 metres

| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|3|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = La Pacaudière, Loire, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|7|6|1912|3|26|df=yes}}{{Olympedia|68081}}

| death_place = Paris, France

|club=PUC, Paris

| height =171 cm

| weight =72 kg

}}

Raymond Félix Claude Boisset (26 March 1912 – 6 July 1991) was a French sprinter who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/raymond-boisset-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417195809/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/raymond-boisset-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Raymond Boisset Olympic Results |accessdate=23 July 2017}}

Biography

Boisset finished second behind Bill Roberts in the 440 yards event at the 1935 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19350713/349/0018 |title=AAA titles |work=Daily Herald |date=13 July 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19350715/314/0017 |title=Why Lovelock lost his title |work=Daily Herald |date=15 July 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 January 2025 }}

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he competed in the men's 400 metres.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/68081 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=16 January 2025}}

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