[1][2] Following the refusal from the International Olympic Committee allowing him to represent Greece he entered the 1896 Summer Olympics representing France, his first event was the triple jump and after jumping 12.70 metres he finished in second place behind James Connolly of the United States and thus becoming the first French medallist.

[4] Four years later, Tuffère competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, and again he was representing the French, he entered the triple jump and again there is no known distance he jumped but did finish in sixth place.

[5] Tuffère the competed in the 1906 Intercalated Games, this time representing Greece, where he entered the 110 metres hurdles.

[7] In November 1940, Tuffère, who was living in Athens at the time, was nominated as the head of a gaullist group, organized by sympathizers of the Free French movement.

However, the true leader of the group, initiated by general Georges Catroux who was in Cairo at the time, was Octave Merlier.