Raphaël Astier
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Raphaël Astier (born 10 December 1976 in
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, Gard) is a
modern pentathlete The modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport consisting of fencing (one-touch épée), freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, pistol shooting, and cross country running. The event is inspired by the traditional pentathlon held during the anc ...
from France. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished twenty-fifth in the men's event, with a score of 4,932 points. Astier achieved his best results in 2003 and in 2005, when he won the gold medal at the Open Asian Modern Pentathlon Championships in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and at the Bath International Meeting in
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, respectively.


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1976 births Living people French male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for France Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics 21st-century French people {{France-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub