Auguste Serrurier (25 March 1857 in

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— 21 March 1921 in

) was a French competitor in the sport of

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. Serrurier competed in two events, taking second place in both the Sur la Perche à la Herse and the Sur la Perche à la Pyramide competitions. He is now considered by the

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to have won two

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s. No scores are known from those competitions, though it is known that Serrurier tied with

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for second in the à la Herse event, and both are silver medallists.

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# - Prizes at the time were silver medals for first place and bronze medals for second, as well as usually including cash awards. The current gold, silver, bronze medal system was initiated at the

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. The International Olympic Committee has retroactively assigned medals in the current system to top three placers at early Olympics.

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* * 1857 births 1924 deaths Archers at the 1900 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for France Olympic silver medalists for France French male archers Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics People from Denain Sportspeople from Nord (French department) {{France-Olympic-medalist-stub

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