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Robert Claude Henri Chef d'Hôtel (2 February 1922 – 19 October 2019) was a Olympedia: Robert Chef d'Hôtel
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Robert Claude Henri Chef d'Hôtel (2 February 1922 – 19 October 2019) was a track and field
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athlete
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from France
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, who competed mainly in the men's 400 metres during his career. He was born in Nouméa
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, Sud, New Caledonia
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in February 1922.
Chef d'Hôtel competed for France at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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held in London
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, Great Britain
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where he won the silver medal in the men's 4 × 400 metre relay with his teammates Jean Kerebel
Jean-Baptiste Kerebel (2 April 1918, in Paris – 9 March 2010) was a French track and field athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.
He competed for France at the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain
Great Brita ...
, Francis Schewetta and Jacques Lunis.
He died on 19 October 2019, at the age of 97./ref>
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* * 1922 births 2019 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists French male sprinters Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics New Caledonian male sprinters Olympic athletes of France Olympic silver medalists for France Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) People from Nouméa 20th-century French people 21st-century French people {{France-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub