Raphaël Astier (born 10 December 1976 in
Alès,
Gard
Gard () is a department in Southern France, located in the region of Occitanie. It had a population of 748,437 as of 2019;[modern pentathlete
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from France.
He competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...
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
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, and at the Bath International Meeting in
Bath, England
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, respectively.
References
External links
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archived page from Pentathlon.org
1976 births
Living people
French male modern pentathletes
Olympic modern pentathletes for France
Modern pentathletes at the 2004 Summer Olympics
21st-century French people
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