Jean Cosmat

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Jean Cosmat rowing
Le Quatre avec barreur de Nantes, de G. à D. Cosmat, Chauvigny, le barreur N. Vandernotte, M. Vandernotte et F. Vandernotte.jpg
Jean Cosmat (left) with the crew at the 1936 Olympic Games
nation FranceFrance France
birthday July 3, 1910
place of birth Nantes ,  FranceThird French RepublicThird French Republic 
date of death March 29, 2010
Place of death Nantes ,  FranceFranceFrance 
Career
discipline Foursome with a helmsman
society CA Nantes
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
European championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze 1936 Berlin Foursome with
FISA logo European championships
silver 1934 Lucerne Foursome with
 

Jean Cosmat (born July 3, 1910 in Nantes , † March 29, 2010 ibid) was a French rower .

biography

Jean Cosmat competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin together with Marcel Chauvigné and the brothers Marcel and Fernand Vandernotte in a four-man team. Fernand's twelve-year-old son Noël acted as helmsman . The crew won the bronze medal behind the German and Swiss boats. The crew had already won the silver medal at the European Championships in Lucerne two years earlier .

In 2008 he and Noël Vandernotte were awarded the Ordre national du Mérite . In 2010, he died three months before his 100th birthday after falling down the stairs in his home in Nantes.

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personal data
SURNAME Cosmat, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Nantes
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2010
Place of death Nantes