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Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
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Charles Crahay (born 9 November 1889, date of death unknown) was a Belgian fencer. [1] He won a silver medal in the team foil competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics. [2] [3]
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Events in the year 1917 in Belgium.
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