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The two French athletes that have won the most Olympic medals are fencers Roger Ducret and Philippe Cattiau, each who won 8. Ducret won 3 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze at the 1920, 1924, and 1928 Games and Cattiau won 3 gold, 4 silver, and 1 bronze at the 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936 Games.

Alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy won 3 gold medals at the 1968 Games in Grenoble. Fencer Philippe Riboud won 6 medals (2 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze) at the 1980, 1984, and 1988 Games. Fencer Jean-François Lamour won 5 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) at the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Games.

The youngest athlete to perform for France was figure skater Alain Giletti (12 years, 162 days) at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo. The oldest athlete to perform for France was Paul Richer (75 years, 107 days) who competed in Art Competition at the 1924 Summer Games in Paris. (Art Competition was part of the Games between 1912-1948 and consisted of five categories: music, painting, architecture, literature, and sculpture. Competitors submitted works which were judged with medals awarded for the best judged works).

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