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| Nationality | French | |||||||||||
| Born | 28 November 1957 | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
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Lionel Beylot-Bourcelot (born 28 November 1957) is a French former swimmer. He won a bronze medal in the 1975 Mediterranean Games in Al-Jaza'ir (Algiers), Algeria, swimming the 200 m backstroke. [1] He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1976 Summer Olympics. [2]
Gérard Blitz was a Belgian Olympic swimmer and water polo player who competed at the 1920, 1924, 1928 and 1936 Olympics. He was the younger brother of Maurice Blitz, also a water polo player, and uncle of Gérard Blitz who founded Club Med in 1950.
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