Remy Orban

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Rémy Orban (4th from left) with the Koninklijke Roeivereniging Club Gent at the Henley Royal Regatta 1909

Joseph Albert Célestin Rémy Orban (born April 9, 1880 in Herve , † 1951 ) was a Belgian rower who came second in the Olympic Games in 1906 and 1908.

Rémy Orban rowed for the Koninklijke Roeivereniging Club Gent . At the Olympic Intermediate Games in 1906 , Rémy Orban and his brother Max 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. The Belgian eighth also won the European Championships in 1908 , but without Rémy Orban.

Seven rowers from the European championship boat from 1908 also competed with the Belgian eighth at the 1908 Olympic Games in London , only Rémy Orban and the helmsman Alfred van Landeghem did not take part in the European championships. In London, the Ghent eight reached a final with a victory over the boat of the University of Cambridge as the only foreign boat and was there defeated by the crew from the Leander Club .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 196f
  2. ↑ European Championships in eighth at sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 262
personal data
SURNAME Orban, Remy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orban, Joseph Albert Célestin Rémy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian rower
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Herve
DATE OF DEATH 1951