| Georges Charmoille | |||||||||||||||
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| Country represented |  France | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
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Georges Charmoille was a French gymnast. He was a part of the silver medal-winning French team at the 1907 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where, additionally, he won a gold medal on the horizontal bar apparatus.
Charmoille won two bronze medals at the 1906 Intercalated Games held in Greece. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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