Fernand de Montigny

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Fernand de Montigny
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Fencing , hockey

BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze Athens 1906 Epee team
bronze London 1908 Epee team
gold Stockholm 1912 Epee team
silver Antwerp 1920 Epee team
bronze Antwerp 1920 Field hockey
silver Paris 1924 Foil team
silver Paris 1924 Epee team
fencing World championships
silver Ostend 1926 Sword

Fernand Alphonse Marie Frédéric de Montigny (born January 5, 1885 in Antwerp , † January 2, 1974 ibid) was a Belgian fencer and hockey player .

successes

Fernand de Montigny took part in five Olympic Games . At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens , he retired in the singles competitions with the foil and epee, respectively in the second round, while he with the epee team to still Constant Cloquet , Edmond Crahay and de Philippe Le Hardy Beaulieu belonged to Won bronze medal. Two years later he was eliminated again in the second round of the epee singles in London . In the team competition, he secured another bronze medal with Paul Anspach , Désiré Beaurain , Fernand Bosmans , Ferdinand Feyerick , François Rom and Victor Willems . In 1912 it was again the second round that he could not go beyond with either the foil or the sword in the individual. With the sword team, de Montigny reached the final round, which he finished in first place with Henri Anspach , Paul Anspach, Robert Hennet , Jacques Ochs , François Rom, Gaston Salmon and Victor Willems and thus became Olympic champion . At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 he ended up in the individual of the foil competition after reaching the final round in sixth place, in the epee competition he was eliminated in the third round. Better ran it in the team competition with the sword in which he with Paul Anspach, Victor Boin , Joseph De Craecker , Ernest Gevers , Félix Goblet d'Alviella , Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu, Léon Tom and Maurice de Wee the final round behind Italy on completed the silver rank. He finished sixth with the foil team. De Montigny was also part of the Belgian hockey team, with whom he reached third place . At his last Olympic participation in Paris in 1924 , de Montigny won the silver medal with both the foil and the epee team. At world championships he was runner-up behind Georges Tainturier in Ostend in 1926 .

De Montigny was the architect of the Olympic Stadium in Antwerp .

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personal data
SURNAME Montigny, Fernand de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montigny, Fernand Alphonse Marie Frédéric de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian fencer and hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1974
Place of death Antwerp , Belgium