Arsène Claude Ménard (14 November 1906 – 2 September 1980) was a French

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er who competed at the

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Career

Ménard won the British

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title in the high jump event at the

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. Shortly afterwards he represented France at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he won a bronze medal, with a jump of . He achieved his personal best of that same year in Dairen.Claude Menard
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References

1980 deaths 1906 births French male high jumpers Olympic athletes for France Olympic bronze medalists for France Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Indre-et-Loire Athletes from Centre-Val de Loire Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-athletics-Olympic-medalist-stub