Blandine Lachèze (born October 11, 1982 in
Fontainebleau
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,
Seine-et-Marne
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) is a female
modern pentathlete
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The sport wa ...
from France.
She competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
in
Athens, Greece
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, where she finished nineteenth in the women's event, with a score of 4,988 points.
Lachèze won an individual gold medal at the 2003 Asian Open Championships in
Kaohsiung
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,
Chinese Taipei
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Due to the One China principle stipulated by the ...
, and a relay bronze at the
2004 World Modern Pentathlon Championships The 2004 World Modern Pentathlon Championship held in Moscow, Russia
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in
Moscow, Russia
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.
References
External links
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archived page from Pentathlon.org
Sportspeople from Fontainebleau
1982 births
Living people
French female modern pentathletes
Olympic modern pentathletes for France
Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics
World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists
21st-century French sportswomen
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