Roles | Competed in Olympic Games • Competed in Intercalated Games • Non-starter |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Maxime Omer Mathieu "Max"•Omer-Decugis |
Used name | Max•Decugis |
Born | 24 September 1882 in Paris XVIe, Paris (FRA) |
Died | 6 September 1978 in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes (FRA) |
Affiliations | Sporting Club de France |
NOC | ![]() |
Medals | OG | IG |
Gold | 1 | 3 |
Silver | 1 | 0 |
Bronze | 1 | 0 |
Total | 3 | 3 |
Max Decugis was the winner of a record six Olympic medals (four gold, one silver, one bronze) for lawn tennis between 1900 and 1920, including the 1906 Olympics. His victories included the mixed doubles in 1906 when he was partnered by his wife. Although the Olympic tournaments during that era attracted many of the world’s top players, Decugis’s greatest non-Olympic achievement was to win the Wimbledon doubles with his countryman André Gobert in 1911 when they defeated the previously unbeaten holders, Tony Wilding (NZL) and Major Josiah Ritchie (GBR). Decugis was also an eight-time French singles champion (1903-04, 1907-09, and 1912-14), although the event was then closed to French players only.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1900 Summer Olympics | Tennis | ![]() |
Max Decugis | |||
Singles, Men (Olympic) | ||||||
Doubles, Men (Olympic) | Spalding de Garmendia | 2 | Silver | |||
Doubles, Handicap, Men (Olympic (non-medal)) | Spalding de Garmendia | 1 | ||||
1906 Intercalated Games | Tennis | ![]() |
Max Decugis | |||
Singles, Men (Intercalated) | 1 | Gold | ||||
Doubles, Mixed (Intercalated) | Marie Decugis | 1 | Gold | |||
Doubles, Men (Intercalated) | Maurice Germot | 1 | Gold | |||
1908 Summer Olympics | Tennis | ![]() |
Max Decugis | |||
Singles, Men (Olympic) | ||||||
Doubles, Men (Olympic) | Maurice Germot | |||||
1912 Summer Olympics | Tennis | ![]() |
Max Decugis | |||
Doubles, Covered Courts, Mixed (Olympic) | Marie Decugis | |||||
Singles, Covered Courts, Men (Olympic) | ||||||
1920 Summer Olympics | Tennis | ![]() |
Max Decugis | |||
Singles, Men (Olympic) | =17 | |||||
Doubles, Mixed (Olympic) | Suzanne Lenglen | 1 | Gold | |||
Doubles, Men (Olympic) | Pierre Albarran | 3 | Bronze |