Roger Verey

Roger Verey, Berlin 1936

Roger Roland Verey (born March 14, 1912 in Lausanne , † September 6, 2000 in Krakow ) was a Polish rower .

Verey came from a Hungarian- Polish family of lawyers and grew up in southern France . In 1929, after the death of their father, the family moved to Poland, where Roger gave French lessons and also studied sport in Warsaw . In his youth he was interested in swimming and soccer , but then he started rowing in Poland.

Vevey started for his club, AZS Krakau, in singles and doubles . Between 1931 and 1949 he was fourteen times Polish champion in singles, between 1932 and 1949 eight times in doubles (with Jerzy Ustupski and later with Dezső Csaba). At European Championships he won seven medals, including 2 gold in singles (1933, 1935) and one in double scull (1935). In 1937 he became student world champion in single.

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he won the bronze medal in a double scull. He had already been voted Poland's Sportsman of the Year the year before. Between 1931 and 1949 he was undefeated in regattas held in Poland.

During the Second World War he lived in Krakow and worked as a tram conductor. After 1945, due to age, he was unable to fully build on his old successes and began to work as a trainer . In 1958 he emigrated to Belgium , where he continued to work as a trainer. The double scull he supervised took 6th place at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. In 1988 Verey returned to Poland and settled in Krakow, where he also died. His memoirs had previously appeared under the title 40,000 kilometrów na skifie .

literature

• Ryszard Wryk, Roger Verey , in: Ders .: Sport olimpijski w Polsce 1919–1939, Poznań 2006, pp. 405–406.

Web links

• Roger Verey in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )