Jean-François Lamour is a French former sabre fencer and politician, born in Paris on 2 February 1956. He took up fencing at the age of eight, won the French sabre championship 13 times between 1977 and 1992, and became world champion in Lausanne in 1987. At the Olympics he earned two gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal in sabre events between 1984 and 1988, with his first gold coming at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. After retiring from competition he moved into public life, serving as sports and youth counselor to the Mayor of Paris in the 1990s and as France's minister of sport from 2002.
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is a French former fencer and current politician and cabinet minister
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He earned two gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal in sabre Olympic events between 1984 and 1988.
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is a French former fencer and current politician and cabinet minister
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he achieved the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
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