Étienne Desmarteau
Étienne Desmarteau (born February 4, 1873 in Boucherville , Québec , † October 29, 1905 in Montreal ) was a Canadian athlete .
Desmarteau won the 1902 American Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championship in weight throwing in front of hammer thrower John Flanagan . Flanagan and Desmarteau were also the two favorites for the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, where weight throwing was on the program for the first time.
It was not so easy for Desmarteau to go to St. Louis in the first place. As a member of the Montreal Police Corps , he applied for leave to attend the Olympic Games, which he was not granted. He drove anyway, but lost his job as a result.
In St. Louis Desmarteau won the weight long throw with a distance of 10.46 m before John Flanagan, who came to 10.16 m. The weight throwing was only held as an Olympic discipline in Antwerp in 1904 and 1920, and in 1920 Pat McDonald won . Desmarteau was the second Canadian Olympic champion in athletics after runner George Orton . In 1905 Desmarteau died of typhus.
Before the 1976 Olympic Games , the Étienne Desmarteau arena was inaugurated in Montreal , where the Olympic basketball tournament was held.
literature
- Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996 Track and Fields Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV ).
- Étienne Desmarteau . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . 24 volumes, 1966–2018. University of Toronto Press, Toronto ( English , French ).
Web links
- Étienne Desmarteau in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Desmarteau, Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boucherville |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1905 |
| Place of death | Montreal |