Émile Mercier was a French competitor in the sport of

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...

. Mercier competed in one event, taking third place in the 50 metre Au Chapelet competition. The

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now consider him to have won a bronze medal. The scores are unknown from that competition.

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# - Prizes at the time were silver medals for first place and bronze medals for second, as well as usually including cash awards. The current gold, silver, bronze medal system was initiated at the

1904 Summer Olympics The 1904 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the III Olympiad and also known as St. Louis 1904) were an international multi-sport event held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from 1 July to 23 November 1904. Many events were conducted ...

. The International Olympic Committee has retroactively assigned medals in the current system to the top three placers at the early Olympics.

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* Year of birth missing Year of death missing Archers at the 1900 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for France Olympic bronze medalists for France French male archers Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{France-Olympic-medalist-stub

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