Raymond Talleux

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Raymond Talleux, Eugène Constant, Louis Gressier, Georges Lecointe and helmsman Marcel Lepan won the pre-Olympic regatta in 1924

Raymond Émile Julien Talleux (born March 2, 1901 in Boulogne-sur-Mer , † March 21, 1982 in Saint-Martin-Boulogne ) was a French rower who was second in the 1924 Olympics in the four with helmsman .

Athletic career

Raymond Talleux rowed for the Émulation Nautique Boulonnaise in Boulogne-sur-Mer. At the European Championships in 1923 he won bronze with Eugène Constant and helmsman Ernest Barberolle in a pair with helmsman behind the boats from Switzerland and Italy.

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924, Constant and Talleux and helmsman Marcel Lepan won the lead in front of the boat from the United States. In the second heat, the Swiss won ahead of the Italians. The French led the final for a long time, but fell behind on the last part of the track. The Swiss won ahead of the Italians, the boat from the United States won the bronze medal ahead of the French. In a four with a helmsman, Talleux, Constant and Lepan competed together with Louis Gressier and George Lecointe . The French won their lead. In the final, the rowers from Switzerland won three seconds ahead of the French, behind them the rowers from the United States came third in front of the Italians.

Talleux was an office worker in 1924, and later he ran a moving company. He was also active in rowing after his active career and was Vice President of the Émulation Nautique Boulonnaise .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ European championships in two with helmsman at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ 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. 297
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 . P. 554f
  4. ↑ 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. 301
personal data
SURNAME Talleux, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Talleux, Raymond Émile Julien (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-sur-Mer
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1982
Place of death Saint-Martin-Boulogne