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The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad and commonly known as Antwerp 1920, were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.
France competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, and failed to win a single gold medal for the second time only in the history of the modern Olympic Games. 238 competitors, 210 men and 28 women, took part in 120 events in 19 sports.
Armand Marcelle was a French rower who won a silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1928 Summer Olympics, together with his younger brother Édouard.
Édouard Marcelle was a French rower who won a silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1928 Summer Olympics, together with his elder brother Armand.
Djibouti has participated in nine Summer Olympic Games as of the completion of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. They have never competed in the Winter Olympic Games. Djibouti debuted at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States of America with three athletes, but did not take home a medal. The highest number of Djiboutian athletes participating in a summer Games is eight in the 1992 games in Barcelona, Spain. Only one Djiboutian athlete has ever won a medal at the Olympics, marathon runner Hussein Ahmed Salah, who won a bronze medal in the 1988 marathon.
Marcelle Bühler was a Swiss alpine skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Georges Marcel Lachmann was a French field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Marcelle Matthews is a South African pair skater. With partner Gwyn Jones, she represented South Africa at the 1960 Winter Olympics where she placed 13th. She was 11 years old at the time.
Idris Gwyn Jones is a South African pair skater. With partner Marcelle Matthews, he represented South Africa at the 1960 Winter Olympics where he placed 13th.
Marcelle Bory was a French fencer. She competed in the individual women's foil competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
The men's coxed pair event was part of the rowing programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. It was one of seven rowing events for men and was the fourth appearance of the event. It was held from 3 to 10 August near Sloten, Amsterdam. There were 6 boats from 6 nations, with each nation limited to one boat in the event. The event was won by the Swiss team, the nation's second consecutive victory in the event. Brothers Hans Schöchlin and Karl Schöchlin rowed, with Hans Bourquin the coxswain. Another pair of brothers took silver: France's Armand Marcelle and Édouard Marcelle. The Belgian bronze medal team consisted of Léon Flament, François de Coninck, and Georges Anthony; it was the nation's first medal in the event.
Marcelle Neveu was a French middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
André Clayeux was a French athlete, soldier and sports director
Jeanine Emelie Marcelle Touchard-Vapaille was a French gymnast. She competed in the women's artistic team all-around at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Maite Gabarrús-Alonso is a Spanish former professional tennis player, and currently a professional padel player.
Shanice Marcelle is a Canadian female volleyball player and assistant coach for the York Lions women's volleyball team. She is a five-time CIS volleyball champion as a university athlete and two-time Bundesliga champion as a professional athlete. Individually, she was twice awarded the CIS women's volleyball player of the year in 2011 and 2013, was the 2011 CIS volleyball championship MVP, and was named the 2013 winner of the BLG Award as the best female athlete in all of Canadian Interuniversity Sport. She joined the Canadian women's national volleyball team in 2011 and is a member of the beach volleyball national team.
Marcelle Lafont was a chemist, chemical engineer, member of the French Resistance and later a politician. Born into the successful bourgeois Lafont family she broke with tradition and earned a degree in chemical engineering, became a truck driver, an aviator and spoke several languages. In 1935 she ran for election in Villeurbanne when women still did not have the right to vote in France. During the Second World War, her work in the French Resistance earned her the Resistance Medal. She later took up politics in Songieu.
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