Gabriel Poix

Bouton, Poix and Barberolle at the 1920 European Championships

Gabriel Augustin Poix (born November 8, 1888 in Paris , † January 23, 1946 in Nogent-sur-Marne ) was a French rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 1920.

Athletic career

At the Olympic Games in London in 1912 Poix stepped as the batsman of the Dollengig foursome of the Societé Nautique de Bayonne , but was eliminated in the run-up to the Norwegian boat.

At the European Championships in Ghent in 1913 , Poix won together with Maurice Bouton from the Societé Nautique de la Marne in two with a helmsman .

In 1920 Bouton and Poix started with Bouton's father-in-law Ernest Barberolle as helmsman at the European Championships in Mâcon and won again seven years after their last title, in between the European Championships had been canceled due to the First World War . Second in Mâcon were the Swiss with Édouard Candeveau , Alfred Felber and Paul Piaget, ahead of the Belgians Georges and Oscar van den Bossche with Guillaume Visser .

Two weeks after the European Championships, the rowing competitions of the 1920 Olympic Games took place in Antwerp . Four boats were at the start in two without a helmsman: In addition to the three medal winners from Mâcon, the Italians Ercole Olgeni , Giovanni Scatturin and Guido De Filip , who defeated the Belgians in the run-up , also competed . Italians, French and Swiss rowed against each other in the final. The Italians won by one second over the French, the Swiss were just behind.

Web links

Gabriel Poix in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

^ Karl Lennartz : The games of the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912 . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2009. ISBN 978-3-89784-364-6 pp. 226 to 228
↑ European championships in two with helmsman at sport-komplett.de; the helmsman from 1913 is unknown.
↑ According to sport-komplett.de the helmsman was also unknown; the photo with the victorious boat is now assigned to the crew with barber rolls.
^ Karl Lennartz, Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the VII Olympiad 1920 in Antwerp . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2013. ISBN 978-3-89784-402-5 p. 230f

personal data
SURNAME	Poix, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Poix, Gabriel Augustin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French rower
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	January 23, 1946
Place of death	Nogent-sur-Marne

[1] Karl Lennartz : The games of the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912 . AGON-Sportverlag, Kassel 2009. ISBN 978-3-89784-364-6 pp. 226 to 228

[2] European championships in two with helmsman at sport-komplett.de; the helmsman from 1913 is unknown.

[3] According to sport-komplett.de the helmsman was also unknown; the photo with the victorious boat is now assigned to the crew with barber rolls.

[4] Karl Lennartz, Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The games of the VII Olympiad 1920 in Antwerp . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2013. ISBN 978-3-89784-402-5 p. 230f