Arnjolt Beer (born 19 June 1946) is a retired French

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ter. He was born in

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, and represented the club

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. He represented France at the

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and 1972 Olympic Games, where he did not reach the final. He won the silver medal at the

1967 Mediterranean Games The 1967 Mediterranean Games, officially known as the V Mediterranean Games, and commonly known as Tunis 1967, were the 5th Mediterranean Games. The Games were held in Tunis, Tunisia over 9 days, from 8 to 17 September 1967, where 1,249 athletes ...

, finished sixth at the

1968 European Indoor Games The 1968 European Indoor Games were held between 9–10 March 1968 at Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, the capital of Spain. The track used for the championships was 182 metres long. Medal summary Men Women Medal table Participating nations ...

, eighth at the 1970 European Indoor Championships, thirteenth at the 1971 European Indoor Championships, tenth at the 1972 European Indoor Championships, tenth at the 1976 European Indoor Championships, and twelfth at the 1981 European Indoor Championships. He became French champion in 1968, 1971, 1978 and 1980, and French indoor champion in 1975, 1977, 1978 and 1979. At the

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Beer won the shot put in 1966, 1969, 1971, 1975 and 1983. He set a championship record with 18.07 metres in 1971, and equalled it in 1975. It withstood later competitions. Also, in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiqui ...

he won gold medals in 1969, 1971 and 1975 and silver medals in 1966 and 1983. Here, too, he set a championship record of 50.22 metres in 1969, but it was erased by

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n Jean-Claude Duhaze in 1979. In the

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Beer won a silver medal in 1975 and bronze medals in 1969 and 1971.

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1945 births Living people New Caledonian shot putters French male shot putters Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of France French people of New Caledonian descent People from North Province, New Caledonia New Caledonian male athletes Mediterranean Games silver medalists for France Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 1967 Mediterranean Games {{France-shotput-bio-stub