Émile Lachapelle

Émile Henri Lachapelle (born September 12, 1905 , † February 1988 ) was a Swiss athlete who took part in rowing and sailing in the Olympic Games.

As a member of the Société Nautique de Genève , Lachapelle joined the European Championships in Barcelona in 1922 as the helmsman of the pair of Édouard Candeveau and Alfred Felber , the Swiss boat won the title and was able to successfully defend it a year later in Como. The three Swiss also won the 1924 Olympic Games on the Seine near Argenteuil .

In the four without a helmsman, Émile Albrecht , Alfred Probst , Eugen Sigg and Hans Walter won the bronze medal. These four rowers, together with the helmsman Fritz Loosli, also qualified for the final in a four-man with a helmsman . According to Volker Kluge , Loosli only steered the boat in the run-up and in the hope run , in the final Lachapelle steered the boat and won his second gold medal.

Émile Lachapelle was a very versatile athlete. In 1923 he was Swiss junior champion with Servette Geneva and in 1930 also Swiss ice hockey champion with Servette Geneva .

In 1941, 1942, 1947 and 1948 Lachapelle was again Swiss champion, this time in sailing. At the Olympic Games in 1948 , he finished seventh in the six-meter class.

Volker Kluge

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

• Émile Lachapelle in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European championships in two with a helmsman
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle I. , page 585, note 226
3. ↑ ^{a b} Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle I. , page 585, note 222