Stade olympique de Colombes, Paris | August 9, 1925
France and Switzerland faced off at the Colombes Olympic stadium. The star of the dual meet was Switzerland's Olympic silver medalist Paul Martin, who sped to a dominant victory in the 800 with a relatively fast time of 1:53.2. France's René Wiriath, eliminated in the heats at the Paris Games, was three seconds behind.
The world-leading mark hammered by Douglas Lowe a month earlier was only 0.4 seconds away for Martin, who had also competed in Finland a few weeks earlier. In the season's world rankings, Martin occupied the fifth spot.
In the Olympic relay (800+400+200+100 meters), Switzerland took the victory, not least thanks to Martin's furious two-lap leg.
France's Roger Pelé was in top dual meet form. He won the 1500 meters just as he had taken the event a couple of weeks earlier in the meet against Britain. Joseph Guillemot, a rival of Paavo Nurmi who was making a comeback to the tracks, won the 5000 meters.
Gabriel Sempé, eliminated in the 110m hurdles heats at both the Paris and Amsterdam Olympics, clinked a French record of 15.0.
Germany had thrashed Switzerland in their 1920s dual meets, and now it was France's turn to beat the boys from the cuckoo clock country, 75–57.