Haiti at the 1924 Summer Olympics
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. The country's delegation consisted of two officials and eleven competitors. Of the competitors, four were track and field athletes, and seven were shooters. One of the athletes and two of the shooters ended up not competing in any events. The two officials in the delegation were V. Pasquet and the Secretary-General of the Haitian Olympic Committee, Henec Dorsinville. Haiti won its first Olympic medal at these Games, a bronze in the men's team free rifle event.


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In sport shooting competed seven young members of the Gendarmerie Port-au-Prince, trained by their head, the US-American Col. Douglas C. McDougal, serving from 1921 to 1925 at Port-au-Prince.biography of Douglas C. McDougal by the Marine Corps University MCU
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1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds ...
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