René Mandrillon

René Mandrillon was a French cross-country skier from Lamoura in the Jura, born on 28 August 1928 and dead on 3 March 1970 in the same village. He represented France at three Winter Olympics in the 1950s and early 1960s and skied for the club US Lamoura. At the 1952 Games in Oslo he finished eighteenth in the 18 kilometre race and was part of the French relay team that placed fourth. He returned in 1956, when he was twenty-second over 30 kilometres, and in 1960, when he placed twenty-ninth over 15 kilometres and twenty-fifth over 30 kilometres, with the relay team seventh. He did not win an Olympic medal.