Jean Cosmat
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Jean Cosmat (left) with the crew at the 1936 Olympic Games |
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nation | France | ||||||||||||
birthday | July 3, 1910 | ||||||||||||
place of birth | Nantes , France | ||||||||||||
date of death | March 29, 2010 | ||||||||||||
Place of death | Nantes , France | ||||||||||||
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discipline | Foursome with a helmsman | ||||||||||||
society | CA Nantes | ||||||||||||
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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.
Web links
- Jean Cosmat in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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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 |