Thierry Terret

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Thierry Terret (born January 1, 1963 ) is a French sports historian who was appointed Commissioner of the French Government for the 2024 Summer Olympics . Previously, he was Rector and Chancellor of the Réunion Academy and from 2016 in the same role at the Rennes Academy .

Life

After studying sport at the University of Lyon 1 (exam 1987), the institute director Pierre Arnaud kept him at the institute as a swimming instructor. Terret also worked his way into the history of sports and did his doctorate on the history of swimming in 1992 , which gave him a permanent position as Maitre de Conférance and in 1997 as a professor. In 1998 he won the Junior Scholar Award from the European Committee for Sports History . He consistently pursued the approach of processing the history of the individual sports or having it processed. In 2002 he was visiting professor at the University of British Columbia , and in 2003 he succeeded Arnaud as director of the institute in Lyon. In 2009 he was visiting professor at the University of Queensland . From 2008 to 2012 he was the chairman of the French Sport Historians and Vice-President of the International Sport Historians. He is a Fellow of the European Committee for Sports History . As a member of the French Socialists , he was appointed Rector and Chancellor of the Académie de La Réunion in 2013, and in 2016 to the same post (also as Deputy Prefect ) at the Académie in Rennes . In 2018 he became the representative ( delegate ) of the French government for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris .

Works

  • (With Arnaud P.), Le rêve blanc. Olympisme et sport d'hiver , Bordeaux, Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 1993
  • Naissance et diffusion de la natation sportive , Paris, L'Harmattan, 1994
  • L'institution et le nageur. Histoire de la Fédération Française de Natation (1919–1939) , Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1998
  • (with Charroin P.), L'eau et la balle. Une histoire du water-polo , Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998
  • (with Fargier P., Rias B. et Roger A.), L'athlétisme et l'école. Histoire et épistémologie d'un sport éducatif , Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002
  • (with Humbert H.), Histoire et diffusion de la gymnastique aquatique , Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002
  • Les Jeux interalliés de 1919. Sport, guerre et relations internationales , Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002
  • (with James Riordan et Arnd Krüger ), Histoire du sport en Europe , Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004
  • (with Liotard P., St-Martin J., Roger A.) Sport et genre: La conquête d'une citadelle masculine (4 vol.), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2005
  • Histoire du sport , Paris, PUF (Que sais-je?), 2007
  • (dir.), Les Paris des Jeux Olympiques de 1924 (4 vol.), Paris, Atlantica, 2008

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbwlqlhe-xo on . Jan. 7, 2019
  2. ↑ Terret, Thierry (1963–) - Notice documentaire IdRef In: idref.fr , accessed on May 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ Early Career Scholar Award in: cesh-site.eu , accessed on May 10, 2017.
  4. ↑ Thierry TERRET: biographie et actualités sur EducPros In: letudiant.fr , accessed on May 10, 2017 (French)
  5. ↑ College of Fellows In: cesh-site.eu , accessed on May 10, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Terret, Thierry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1963