André Castanet

André Castanet was a French long-distance runner.

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 a team race over 5000 meters was held, in which the British Athletic Federation Amateur Athletic Association (AAA ) ran against a variety of French athletics clubs Racing Club de France SA and Montrouge. On each side, five runners were in use; was evaluated according to the added square numbers. Deloge Henri and Jean Chastanié from Racing Club de France and Gaston Ragueneau from SA Montrouge could keep up long with the two best British Charles Bennett and John Rimmer, but ultimately penetrated ( Bennett even provided with 15:20,0 min a world record ) while the other two runners from SA Montrouge ( Castanet and Albert Champoudry ) even lost the connection to the two British runners Sidney Robinson and Alfred Tysoe and only Australian sprinter Stan Rowley, who completed the British team, left behind. Castanet was eighth and ninth Champoudry, and thus won the British team with 26 points against the French team with 29 points.

This was the only international use of Castanet.