French swimming biography stubs

Charles_Devendeville

Charles Devendeville (8 March 1882 in Lesquin – 19 September 1914 in Reims) was a French swimmer and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, where he received a gold medal in the underwater swimming. He died of injuries during the First World War, at age 32.

Suzanne_Wurtz

Suzanne Wurtz (26 December 1900 – 27 July 1982) was a French swimmer. She competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in the 100 m and 300 m freestyle events, but failed to reach the finals.

Damien_Joly

Damien Joly (born 4 June 1992 in Ollioules) is a French swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's 1500 metre freestyle, finishing in 14th place overall in the heats, failing to qualify for the final.

Jean-Christophe_Sarnin

Jean-Christophe Sarnin (born 2 April 1976 in Lyon, Rhône) is a retired male breaststroke swimmer from France, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. He won the silver medal in the men's 200m breaststroke at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia.

Virginie_Dedieu

Virginie Dedieu (born 25 February 1979) is a French former synchronized swimmer and Olympic medalist.
Virginie won a bronze medal in the women's duet at the 2000 Summer Olympics with Myriam Lignot. She was also successful in the European and World Aquatics Championships, winning several medals.Dedieu was awarded the Legion of Honour on 1 January 2006.

Claude_Mandonnaud

Claude Mandonnaud (born 2 April 1950 in Limoges) is a retired French freestyle swimmer who won two medals at the 1966 and 1974 European Aquatics Championships. She also participated in the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics with the best achievement of sixth place in the 200 m freestyle event in 1968.

Muriel_Hermine

Muriel Hermine (born 3 September 1963) is a synchronized swimmer from France. She competed in the 1984, 1988 Summer Olympics and won the 50-59 solo world title in the 2015 FINA Masters World Championships at the age of 51.

Kiki_Caron

Christine "Kiki" Caron (born 10 July 1948 in Paris) is a French former backstroke swimmer. She won the silver medal in 100 m backstroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the gold medal in the same event at the 1966 European Aquatics Championships. She also participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics where she was the first woman to carry the French flag at the opening ceremony. During her swimming career she won 29 national swimming titles. Her elder sister Annie was also a swimmer and competed at the 1960 Olympics.After retiring from swimming she acted in two films: Le lys de mer (1969) and Violentata sulla sabbia (1971). In 1998, Caron was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. In 2005, she was named Chevalier de la Legion of Honour. During the next year she published an autobiography titled Kiki with a preface written by Johnny Hallyday.

Alain_Mosconi

Alain Mosconi (born 9 September 1949) is a French former swimmer, Olympic medalist and world record holder. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics in six freestyle, butterfly and medley relay events. In 1968 he won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle and finished in fifth place in the 200 m individual freestyle and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. In 1972, his best achievement was seventh place in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.He won two medals at the European Championships in 1966 and 1970. In 1967 he set world records in the 400 metres freestyle and 800 metres freestyle.
He was president of General Motors, SEAT and Fiat, in France.