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Raymonde Naigre

Olympic sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ1841156
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Raymonde Naigre (born 23 January 1960 in Les Abymes, Guadeloupe) is a French athlete who specialises in the 200 meters and the 100 meter relay. Naigre competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics.

Biography

She became French Athletics Championships in the 400 meters in 1983 and 1984 and also won the indoor title in 1985. She broke the French record for the 4 × 100 m relay four times, bringing it to 42.84 seconds in the final of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where the French team finished fifth in the final.

Raymonde Naigre won the 400 m event at the 1983 Mediterranean Games in Casablanca with a time of 52.78 seconds. At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, she finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m relay, alongside Rose-Aimée Bacoul, Liliane Gaschet, and Marie-France Loval, missing out on the bronze medal by just 4/100ths of a second.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Raymonde Naigre” is olympic sprinter. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Raymonde, Naigre and Olympic, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1980, 1984, 1983—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-01-23. For this dossier, Raymonde, Naigre and Olympic is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “olympic sprinter” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1841156. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1980, 1984 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from Raymonde Naigre” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.