Georges de Bourguignon
Georges de Bourguignon medal table |
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Belgium | ||
Olympic games | ||
bronze | London 1948 | Foil team |
World championships | ||
bronze | Liege 1930 | Foil team |
silver | Lisbon 1947 | saber |
silver | Lisbon 1947 | Saber crew |
Georges Camille Marcel de Bourguignon (born February 15, 1910 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert , † December 31, 1989 ) was a Belgian fencer .
successes
Georges de Bourguignon won bronze with the foil team at the 1930 World Championships in Liège . In 1947 he was runner-up in both individual and team competitions in Lisbon with the saber. He took part in the Olympic Games four times : in 1932 in Los Angeles he missed the finals in the individual competitions with the foil and the saber. Four years later he finished fifth with the foil team in Berlin , while he finished eighth in the individual. At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , he moved into the final round with the Belgian foil team, the de Bourguignon together with André van de Werve de Vorsselaer , Henri Paternóster , Raymond Bru , Paul Valcke and Édouard Yves on the bronze rank behind France and Italy completed. He was also a member of the saber team, with which he just missed another medal win in fourth. In 1952 he finished fifth with the saber team in Helsinki .
Web links
- Georges de Bourguignon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bourguignon, Georges de |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bourguignon, Georges Camille Marcel de (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian fencer |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1910 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Woluwe-Saint-Lambert , Belgium |
DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1989 |