René Lacoste won a bronze medal at the 1924 Olympics. The medal came in the men’s doubles tennis tournament at the Paris Games, where he represented France alongside Jean Borotra.
The French pair reached the semifinals before losing to the American team of Francis Hunter and Vincent Richards. They then recovered in the bronze-medal match, defeating South Africa’s Jack Condon and Ivie Richardson in straight sets, 6–3, 10–8, 6–3.
This result is sometimes confused with Lacoste’s individual Olympic performance. He also entered the men’s singles tournament in Paris but did not win a medal there. His Olympic bronze was specifically a doubles achievement.
The 1924 Games were the last Olympics before tennis was removed from the official program for several decades. Tennis returned as a demonstration sport in 1968 and became a full medal sport again at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Lacoste’s medal was therefore part of the sport’s early Olympic history.