Joseph Guillemot

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Joseph Guillemot

French runner

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- Olympic Games
  Antwerp, Belgium, 1920
  …Nurmi of Finland, who battled Joseph Guillemot of France and won three of his nine career gold medals in the 10,000-meter run, the 10,000-meter cross-country individual race, and the cross-country team race. In the 5,000-meter run he finished second to Guillemot (see Sidebar: Joseph Guillemot: Life After War). The Finnish…
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  …Nurmi of Finland, who battled Joseph Guillemot of France and won three of his nine career gold medals in the 10,000-meter run, the 10,000-meter cross-country individual race, and the cross-country team race. In the 5,000-meter run he finished second to Guillemot (see Sidebar: Joseph Guillemot: Life After War). The Finnish…
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Joseph Guillemot
Life After War
French runner Joseph Guillemot was not favoured to win the 5,000-metre race at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Given his personal history, it was amazing that he was even able to compete. A veteran of World War I, Guillemot had survived a poison gas…
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French runner Joseph Guillemot was not favoured to win the 5,000-metre race at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium. Given his personal history, it was amazing that he was even able to compete. A veteran of World War I, Guillemot had survived a poison gas…
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