Robert Guillard

{{about||the American oceanographer|Robert R. L. Guillard}}

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| name = Robert Guillard

| full_name = Robert Victor Guillard

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| nationality = French

| sport = Bobsleigh

| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|10|1|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Ville-d'Avray, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|1|11|1919|10|1|df=yes}}

| death_place = Denguin, France

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Robert Guillard (October 1, 1919 – January 11, 2013) was a French polar researcher and head of French Antarctic expeditions. From 1947 to 1984 he participated in 44 French polar expeditions to Greenland and to Antarctica. He served as the head of the French scientific station Dumont d`Urville Station in Adélie Land in Antarctica in 1956, 1963, 1972 and 1977. In the early 1950s he was also an active bobsledder and was a member of the French bobsled team at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo.

References

  • [http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Fr_Antarctic_lands.html French Southern and Antarctic Lands - Terre Adélie]
  • [http://philatelie.polaire.free.fr/spip.php?article462 Hommage à Robert Guillard -12 janvier 2013] {{in lang|fr}}
  • [http://www.todor66.com/olim/1952w/Bobsleigh_Doubles.html 1952 bobsleigh two-man results]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417195302/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/robert-guillard-1.html Robert Guillard's profile at Sports Reference.com]

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Category:Bobsledders at the 1952 Winter Olympics

Category:French male bobsledders

Category:1919 births

Category:2013 deaths

Category:20th-century French sportsmen

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