Two ball singles croquet at the Games of the II Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Bois de Boulogne | |||||||||
Dates | July 4 and 11 | |||||||||
Competitors | 6 from 1 nation | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics | |
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Singles, one ball | |
Singles, two balls | |
Doubles | |
The 1900 Olympic Croquet two-ball singles tournament was held on 4 and 11 July 1900. Eight athletes from France competed. The event was won by Chrétien Waydelich, the only person to earn two singles medals in Olympic croquet (with a bronze in the one-ball competition as well). Silver went to Maurice Vignerot and bronze to Jacques Sautereau.
This was the only appearance of the event at the Olympics; it was one of three croquet competitions in 1900. Croquet was one of the first Olympic sports open to women (with only sailing having female competitors before croquet, due to that sport taking place earlier in 1900), with two of the six players in this event being women. [1]
The competition format is unclear. There were two rounds. The first round appears to have been a head-to-head, best-of-three competition. The winners advanced to the second round, as did one of the losers. The second round appears to have been a round-robin with each match being best-of-three.
Date | Time | Round |
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Wednesday, 4 July 1900 | First round | |
Wednesday, 11 July 1900 | Final |
Winner | Score | Loser |
Maurice Vignerot (FRA) | 2-0 (42-40) | Louise Anne Marie Després (FRA) |
Jacques Sautereau (FRA) | 2-0 (41-19) | Al. Blachère (FRA) |
Chrétien Waydelich (FRA) | w/o | Jeanne Filleul-Brohy (FRA) |
The second round was conducted as a round-robin.
Pos | Player | Nation | W | L | CW | MV | JS | AB | |
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Chrétien Waydelich | France | 3 | 0 | 2–1 [lower-alpha 1] | 1–0 [lower-alpha 2] | 1–0 [lower-alpha 3] | |||
Maurice Vignerot | France | 2 | 1 | 1–2 [lower-alpha 4] | 2–1 [lower-alpha 5] | 2–0 [lower-alpha 6] | |||
Jacques Sautereau | France | 1 | 2 | 0–1 [lower-alpha 7] | 1–2 [lower-alpha 8] | 1–0 [lower-alpha 9] | |||
4 | Al. Blachère | France | 0 | 3 | 0–1 [lower-alpha 10] | 0–2 [lower-alpha 11] | 0–1 [lower-alpha 12] |
Rank | Player | Nation |
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Chrétien Waydelich | France | |
Maurice Vignerot | France | |
Jacques Sautereau | France | |
4 | Al. Blachère | France |
5 | Louise Anne Marie Després | France |
Jeanne Filleul-Brohy | France |
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