Guillaume de Saint-Cyr

Guillaume de Saint-Cyr was a French athlete who represented Racing Club de France in the 1890s, being a French champion in the high jump and discus throw (1897).

Sporting career Athletics Very little is known about his early and personal life, but he is most likely a brother to Charles de Saint-Cyr as they both practiced sports at Racing Club de France (RCF), and then Red Star in the late 1890s. Saint-Cyr represented the RCF in four consecutive French Athletics Championships between 1895 and 1898; in the first two, he only participated in the high jump, finishing second in 1895, and then becoming French champion in 1896, doing so with a jump of 1.66 meters, In doing so, he became only the third Racing athlete to win gold in high jump, after the American W.H. Taber in 1892 and Combemale in 1893, who won again in 1898. He then joined Red Star, which he represented at the 1899 Athletics Championships, where he again competed in three different sports, finishing second in shot put (10.995 meters) and discus throw (31.32 meters).

Football Saint-Cyr also played football with Racing's football team as early as January 1897, when he started as a midfielder against United Sports Club (1–1). Three months later, on 4 April, Saint-Cyr was replaced for Racing's last match in the 1897 USFSA championship, which ended in a loss to CP Asnières.