Émile Roger Thomas de Barbarin (4 June 1860 – 4 March 1925) was a French
sport shooter
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such a ...
who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century in
trap shooting
Trap shooting, or trapshooting in North America, is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting, which is shooting shotguns at clay targets. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays.
They are disting ...
. He participated in
Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics
At the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, many shooting events were featured within the concurrent 1900 Exposition Universelle, but only eight events currently are considered as "Olympic" by IOC. Before July 2021 the International Olympic Committee ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
and won the
gold medal
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture.
Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
in the trap competition. de Barbarin was born in Paris, where he also died.
References
External links
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Roger de Barbarin's profile at databaseOlympics
1860 births
1925 deaths
French male sport shooters
Trap and double trap shooters
Olympic shooters of France
Shooters at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for France
Sport shooters from Paris
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics
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