Maurice Bouton

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Bouton, Poix and Barberolle at the 1920 European Championships

Maurice Paul René Monney-Bouton (born February 24, 1892 in Paris , † June 15, 1965 in Clichy ) was a French rower who won two Olympic silver medals.

Athletic career

Maurice Bouton rowed for the Societé Nautique de la Marne in Joinville-le-Pont. At the European Championships in Ghent in 1913 , he won together with Gabriel Poix in a pair with 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.

Four years later, Maurice Bouton rowed at the Olympic Games in Paris with Georges Piot in two without a helmsman . The French had defeated the British in the run-up, only the French and the Dutch Teun Beijnen and Willy Rösingh competed in the final . The Dutch won by about two seconds.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The choice of the lemma follows for: wikipedia.
  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
  5. ↑ Wolf Reinhardt, Ralph Schlueter: The Games of the VIII Olympiad in 1924 in Paris and the I. Winter Olympics in Chamonix . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2016. ISBN 978-3-89784-408-7 p. 296f
personal data
SURNAME Bouton, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monney-Bouton, Maurice Paul René (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rower
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1965
Place of death Clichy