1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (Belgium)

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Belgium participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , Netherlands , with a delegation of 170 athletes (159 men and 11 women).

Medalist

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Edmond Spapen	Wrestling	Bantamweight, freestyle

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Leonard Steyaert	Boxing	medium weight
Léon Flament , François de Coninck & Georges Anthony	rowing	Two with a helmsman

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Marcel Sartos

  Flyweight: 9th place

• Raymond van Rumbecke

  Bantamweight: 9th place

• Lucien Biquet

  Featherweight: 4th place

• Pierre Godart

  Lightweight: 17th place

• Adrien Anneet

  Welterweight: 9th place

• Leonard Steyaert

  Middleweight: bronze

fencing

• Raymond Bru

  Foil, singles: 6th place

  Foil, team: 4th place

• Pierre Pêcher

  Foil, singles: semi-finals

  Foil, team: 4th place

• Albert De Roocker

  Foil, singles: semi-finals

  Foil, team: 4th place

• Max Janlet

  Foil, team: 4th place

• Jean Verbrugghe

  Foil, team: 4th place

• Charles Crahay

  Foil, team: 4th place

• Léon Tom

  Epee, singles: 4th place

  Epee, team: 4th place

• Charles Delporte

  Epee, singles: 6th place

  Epee, team: 4th place

• Charles Debeur

  Epee, singles: 7th place

  Epee, team: 4th place

• Émile Barber

  Epee, team: 4th place

• Xavier de Beuckelaer

  Epee, team: 4th place

• Georges Dambois

  Epee, team: 4th place

• Henri Brasseur

  Saber, singles: semi-finals

• Jacques Kesteloot

  Saber, singles: semi-finals

  Saber, team: 7th place

• Edouard Yves

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

  Saber, team: 7th place

• Joseph Stordeur

  Saber, team: 7th place

• Marcel Cuypers

  Saber, team: 7th place

• Gaston Kaanen

  Saber, team: 7th place

• Jenny Addams

  Women, foil, singles: 6th place

• Edith Addams

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

• Hilda Deswarte

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

Soccer

• Men's team

  5th place

• Squad

  August Ruyssevelt

  Florimond van Halme

  Georges Despae

  Gérard Devos

  Gustave Boesman

  Jules Lavigne

  Jacques Moeschal

  Jean Caudron

  Jan Diddens

  Louis Versyp

  Nicolas Hoydonckx

  Pierre Braine

  Raymond Braine

  Jean de Bie

Weightlifting

• Ferdinand Renier

  Featherweight: 12th place

• Albert Maes

  Featherweight: 17th place

• V. van Hamme

  Lightweight: 12th place

• J. Adriaenssens

  Lightweight: DNF

• Jan van Rompaey

  Middleweight: 8th place

• Marcel van der Goten

  Middleweight: 11th place

• Jules van der Goten

  Light heavyweight: 13th place

• Marcel Panen

  Heavyweight: 15th place

hockey

• Men's team

  4th Place

• Squad

  Adolphe Goemaere

  André Seeldrayers

  Auguste Goditiabois

  Charles Koning

  Claude Baudoux

  Cornelis Wellens

  Émile Vercken

  Étienne Soubre

  Freddy Cattoir

  Georges Grosjean

  John van der Straeten

  Joseph Jastine

  Lambert Adelot

  Louis de Deken

  Louis Diercxsens

  Paul Delheid

  René Mallieux

  Yvon Baudoux

athletics

• Paul Brochart

  100 meters: quarter-finals

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Willy Dujardin

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Fred Zinner

  100 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

  Discus throw: 32nd place in qualification

• Adolphe Groscol

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• François Prinsen

  200 meters: heats

  400 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Émile Langenraedt

  400 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Gérald Bertheloot

  800 meters: heats

• Philippe Coenjaerts

  800 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Julien Serwy

  5,000 meters: heats

  10,000 meters: 18th place

• Léon Broers

  Marathon: 18th place

• Gerard Steurs

  Marathon: 37th place

• Jean Linssen

  Marathon: 42nd place

• Joseph Marien

  Marathon: 56th place

• Armand Lepaffe

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

• René Joannes-Powell

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

  Pole vault: Eliminated in qualification

  Decathlon: 25th place

• Émile Swinnen

  400 meter hurdles: prelims

• Edgard Viseur

  3,000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Jozef Langenus

  3,000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Émile Vercken

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Maurice Henrijean

  Pole vault: 10th place in qualification

• Gérard Noël

  Pole vault: 14th place in qualification

  Decathlon: 27th place

• Auguste Vos

  Shot put: 20th place in qualification

• Jules Herremans

  Javelin: 18th place in qualification

• Gaston Etienne

  Javelin: 22nd place in qualification

  Decathlon: 23rd place

• Sidonie Verschueren

  Women, 100 meters: heats

  Women, high jump: 16th place

• Ida Degrande

  Women, 800 meters: heats

• Juliette Segers

  Women, 800 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Elise van Truyen

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

  Women, high jump: 17th place

• Rose van Crombrugge

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Léontine Stevens

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

  Women, high jump: 10th place

• Lucie Petit-Diagre

  Women, discus throwing: 20th place

• Jenny Toitgans

  Women, discus throwing: 21st place

Modern pentathlon

• Édouard Écuyer de le Court

  Individual: 27th place

• Charles Vannerom

  Singles: 32nd place

• Charles Cumont

  Singles: 35th place

Cycling

• Jean Aerts

  Road race, individual: 11th place

  Road race, team: 5th place

  1,000 meter individual time trial: 9th place

• Pierre Houdé

  Road race, individual: 12th place

  Road race, team: 5th place

• Jef Lowagie

  Road race, individual: 13th place

  Road race, team: 5th place

• Jean Chaerels

  Road race, individual: 24th place

  Road race, team: 5th place

• Yves van Massenhove

  Sprint: 5th place

  4,000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• August Meuleman

  4,000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• Jean van Buggenhout

  4,000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

• Albert Muylle

  4,000 meters team pursuit: 5th place

horse riding

• Oswald Lints

  Dressage, individual: 24th place

  Dressage, team: 8th place

• Henri Laame

  Dressage, individual: 27th place

  Dressage, team: 8th place

• Roger Delrue

  Dressage, individual: 29th place

  Dressage, team: 8th place

• Gaston Mesmaekers

  Show jumping, singles: 35th place

  Show jumping, team: 14th place

• Jacques Misonne

  Show jumping, individual: 38th place

  Show jumping, team: 14th place

• Baudouin de Brabandère

  Show jumping, individual: 44th place

  Show jumping, team: 14th place

• Louis Rousseaux

  Versatility, singles: 11th place

  Versatility, team: no result

• Louis-Marie de Jonghe d'Ardoye

  Versatility, Individual: DNF

  Versatility, team: no result

• Georges van der Ton

  Versatility, Individual: DNF

  Versatility, team: no result

Wrestling

• Pierre Mollin

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 9th place

• Jacques Dillen

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 9th place

• Frits Janssens

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Jean Saenen

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Nicolas Appels

  Light Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 4th place

• Gustave Colpaert

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 11th place

• Edmond Spapen

  Bantamweight, freestyle: silver

• Pierre Bressinck

  Featherweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Jean Smet

  Lightweight, freestyle: 8th place

• Hyacinthe Roosen

  Welterweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Louis van der Herten

  Middleweight, freestyle: 8th place

• Jacques van Assche

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Léon Charlier

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 6th place

rowing

• Jacques Mottard

  One: 2nd round

• André Houppelyne

  Double sculls: 2nd round

• Achille Mengé

  Double sculls: 2nd round

• Philippe Van Volckxsom

  Two without a helmsman: 2nd round

• Charles van den Driesche

  Two without a helmsman: 2nd round

• Léon Flament

  Two with helmsman: bronze

• François de Coninck

  Two with helmsman: bronze

• Georges Anthony

  Two with helmsman: bronze

  Eighth: 2nd round

• Maurice Delplanck

  Foursome with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Theo Wambeke

  Foursome with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Alphonse Dewette

  Foursome with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Charles van Son

  Foursome with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Jean Bauwens

  Foursome with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Marcel Roman

  Eighth: 2nd round

• H. Micha

  Eighth: 2nd round

• J. Jonlet

  Eighth: 2nd round

• A. Lambrecht Jr.

  Eighth: 2nd round

• André Lemaire

  Eighth: 2nd round

• Victor Denis

  Eighth: 2nd round

• R. Macors

  Eighth: 2nd round

• J. van Malderen

  Eighth: 2nd round

swim

• Martial Van Schelle

  100 meters freestyle: prelims

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

• Louis van Parijs

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

  200 meters chest: heats

• Pierre Coppieters

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

• Gérard Blitz

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

  100 meters back: heats

• Joseph de Combe

  200 meters chest: heats

sailing

• Léon Huybrechts

  12-foot dinghy: 9th place

• Arthur Sneyers

  6-meter class: 5th place

• Frits Mulder

  6-meter class: 5th place

• Ludovic Franck

  6-meter class: 5th place

• Willy van Rompaey

  6-meter class: 5th place

• AJJ Fridt

  6-meter class: 5th place

Water polo

• Men's team

  5th place

• Squad

  Jules Brandeleer

  René Bauwens

  Joseph Malissart

  Gérard Blitz

  Pierre Coppieters

  Louis van Gheem

  Henri de Pauw

  Fernand Visser

  André Mélardy

Web links

• Belgian Olympic team from 1928 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )