Emmanuel Foulon (29 December 1871 in

Frameries Frameries (; pcd, Framrie; wa, Framriye) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, province of Hainaut, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following deelgemeente, districts: Eugies, Frameri ...

– 22 July 1945 in Frameries) was a

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competitor in the sport of

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. Foulon competed in one event, winning the Sur la Perche à la Herse. He is now considered by the

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to have won a

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. No scores are known from that competition.

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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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* * 1871 births 1945 deaths Archers at the 1900 Summer Olympics Olympic archers of Belgium Olympic gold medalists for Belgium Belgian male archers Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics People from Frameries 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-Olympic-medalist-stub

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