Max Orban
Adrien Eugène Joseph Max Orban (born July 22, 1881 in Herve ; † May 23, 1969 ) was a Belgian rower who was second in the Olympic Games in 1906.
Max Orban rowed for the Koninklijke Roeivereniging Club Gent . At the Olympic Intermediate Games in 1906 , Max Orban and his brother Rémy competed with the Greek teenager Theophilos Psiliakos in two with a helmsman . In the 1000 meter competition, the Italians Enrico Bruna and Emilio Fontanella and their helmsman Giorgio Cesana won ahead of the second Italian boat and two French boats. The Orban brothers and their helmsman took fifth place. A second competition over an English mile was held in two . Bruna, Fontanella and Cesana were victorious here too, with the Orban brothers rowing 30 seconds behind in second place in front of the French boat with Joseph Halcet , Adolphe Bernard and Jean-Baptiste Mathieu , which had finished fourth over the short distance.
At the European Championships in 1906, the Orban brothers won with the Belgian eighth ahead of the French and Italian boats.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 196f
- ↑ European Championships in eighth at sport-komplett.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orban, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orban, Adrien Eugène Joseph Max (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herve |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1969 |