George Genereux

George Genereux
George Genereux at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki
nation	Canada
birthday	March 1, 1935
place of birth	Saskatoon
date of death	April 10, 1989
Place of death	Saskatoon
Career
discipline	Trap
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×

George Patrick Genereux (born March 1, 1935 in Montreal , † April 10, 1989 ibid) was a Canadian marksman and professor of radiology .

successes

George Genereux won at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki , his only Olympic participation, in the discipline trap the gold medal. With 192 points he was Olympic champion from Swedes Knut Holmqvist and Hans Liljedahl at the age of 17 . This made him the youngest Canadian gold medalist at the Olympic Games until 2016 and the only Olympic champion of the Canadian delegation at the 1952 Games. In the run-up to the Games, he had also taken second place at the World Championships . Genereux was active for the Saskatoon Gun Club .

For his Olympic victory, Genereux received the Lou Marsh Trophy in 1952 , and was also inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1953 and into the Hall of Fame of Canadian Sports in 1955 . While still active as a marksman, he completed a bachelor's degree at the University of Saskatchewan . In 1960 he graduated from McGill University with a degree in medicine , specializing in radiology , where he worked as a professor at the Royal University Hospital in his native Saskatoon .

Web links

• George Genereux in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• George Genereux on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)