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{{Infobox Olympic event
| event  = Croquet
| games  = 1900 Summer
| image  = Croquet pictogram.svg
| image_size = 80px
| venues = [[Bois de Boulogne]]
| competitors = 10
| nations = 1
}}
{{CroquetAt1900SummerOlympics}}
[[Image:Croquet1900.jpg|thumb|The 1900 Olympic croquet tournament]]
At the [[1900 Summer Olympics]], three [[croquet]] events were contested. Seven men and three women participated. The doubles competition was scheduled first, though it is unclear whether the French pair that won had any competition. The one-ball singles was played the next week, followed by two-ball singles the week after. France, which supplied all 10 competitors, therefore won all the medals.
This was the only Olympiad where croquet was part of the official programme, though there was the variant called [[roque at the 1904 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Paris 1900 Croquet Results|url=https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/paris-1900/results/croquet |website=Olympics.com|access-date=2021-08-03}}</ref> All events which were restricted to amateurs, open to all nations, open to all competitors, and without handicapping, are now regarded as Olympic events (except for ballooning).<ref name="Mallon"/>{{rp|12-13}} Although croquet satisfied three criteria, it had been thought to have an entrant from Belgium, [[Marcel Haëntjens]],<ref name="Mallon">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inAwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 | author = Mallon, Bill | year = 1998 | title = The 1900 Olympic Games, Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary | publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc. | location = Jefferson, North Carolina | isbn = 978-0-7864-4064-1}}</ref>{{rp|27}} (Haëntjens is a Flemish name) and thus have been an international competition. Haëntjens is now known to have been from France,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/17835 |title=Marcel Haëntjens |work=Olympedia |accessdate=24 December 2020}}</ref> as were the other croquet players. Only one paying spectator attended the event.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Gibson|first=Megan|date=2012-07-06|title=Croquet|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=https://olympics.time.com/2012/07/16/really-strange-sports-that-are-longer-in-the-olympics/slide/croquet/|access-date=2021-09-23|issn=0040-781X}}</ref>
==Medal table==
Sources:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://olympanalyt.com/OlympAnalytics.php?param_pagetype=MedalsByCountries&param_dbversion=&param_country=ALL&param_games=ALL&param_sport=Croquet |title=Olympic Analytics - Medals by Countries |website=olympanalyt.com |access-date=2022-01-31}}</ref>
{{Medals table
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| gold_FRA = 3 | silver_FRA = 2 | bronze_FRA = 2
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==Medal summary==
{| class=wikitable
! Event
|align=center bgcolor=gold| '''Gold'''
|align=center bgcolor=silver| '''Silver'''
|align=center bgcolor=cc9966| '''Bronze'''
|-
| [[Croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Singles, one ball|Singles, one ball]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Gaston Aumoitte]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Georges Johin]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Chrétien Waydelich]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
|-
| [[Croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Singles, two balls|Singles, two balls]]
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Chrétien Waydelich]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Maurice Vignerot]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
| {{flagIOCathlete|[[Jacques Sautereau]]|FRA|1900 Summer}}
|-
| [[Croquet at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Doubles|Doubles]]
| {{flagIOCteam|FRA|1900 Summer}}<hr/>[[Gaston Aumoitte]]<br/>[[Georges Johin]]
|align=center| ''Not known''
|align=center| ''Not known''
|}
==Participating nations==
A total of 10 players from 1 nation competed at the Paris Games:
* {{flagIOC|FRA|1900 Summer|10}}
==See also==
*[[List of Olympic venues in discontinued events]]
* [[Roque at the 1904 Summer Olympics]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
* De Wael, Herman. ''Herman's Full Olympians'': "Croquet 1900". Accessed 10 January 2006. Available electronically at [http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/spcros1.html#1900 ].
* Mallon, Bill. "The First Two Women Olympians" in ''Citius, Altius, Fortius'', Autumn 1995, No. 3, p.&nbsp;38. Available in pdf format from the AAFLA [http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv3n3/JOHv3n3j.pdf ]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808020818/http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/JOH/JOHv3n3/JOHv3n3j.pdf|date=8 August 2010}}
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