Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Games

Belgium at the Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Belgium at the
1906 Intercalated Olympics

IOC code| BEL
NOC| Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee
Website| www.olympic.be (in Dutch and French)
in Athens
Competitors| 16 in 7 sports
Medals
Ranked 12th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Summer appearances

* 1900
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Winter appearances

* 1924
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* 1932
* 1936
* 1948
* 1952
* 1956
* 1960
* 1964
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Belgium competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. 16 athletes, all men, competed in 22 events in 7 sports.[1]

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

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Gold | Cyrille Verbrugge | Fencing | Épée masters
Gold | Cyrille Verbrugge | Fencing | Sabre masters
Silver | Léon Dupont | Athletics | Standing high jump
Bronze | Eugène Debongnie | Cycling | Individual sprint
Bronze | Fernand de Montigny
Constant Cloquet
Edmond Crahay
Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu | Fencing | Épée team
Bronze | Marcel Dubois | Wrestling | Heavyweight

The rowing silver medal in the coxed pairs event over 1 mile is classed as a mixed team medal due to the Orban brothers using a Greek coxswain.[2]

## Athletics

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Main article: Athletics at the 1906 Intercalated Games

Athlete  | Events  | Final

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Result  | Rank
Jules Lesage | Marathon  | Did not finish
Athlete  | Events  | Final

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Result  | Rank
Léon Dupont | High jump  | Unknown | Unknown
Standing high jump  | 1.40  |
Standing long jump  | 2.975  | 4

## Cycling

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Main article: Cycling at the 1906 Intercalated Games

Athlete  | Events  | Heat  | Semifinals  | Final

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Result  | Rank  | Result  | Rank  | Result  | Rank
Romeo Verschelden | Individual road race  | n/a  | 2-41:45  | 4
Eugène Debongnie | Sprint  | 1.26 3/5  | 1 Q | Unknown | 1 Q | Unknown |
333 metres time trial  | n/a  | 23 3/5  | 5
5000 metres  | 3:09  | 1 Q | Unknown | 3  | Did not advance
Francois Verstraeten | 20 kilometres  | Unknown | Unknown Q | n/a  | Did not start
Romeo Verschelden | Unknown | Unknown | n/a  | Did not advance

## Fencing

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Main article: Fencing at the 1906 Intercalated Games

Athlete  | Events  | Heat Group  | Semifinal Group  | Final Group

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Rank  | Rank  | Rank
Fernand de Montigny | Individual Foil  | 2 Q | Unknown | Did not advance
Edmond Crahay | Unknown | Did not advance
Constant Cloquet | Unknown | Did not advance
Fernand de Montigny | Individual Épée  | 1 Q | Unknown | Did not advance
Edmond Crahay | 1 Q | Unknown | Did not advance
Cyrille Verbrugge | Épée masters  | n/a  |
Fernand de Montigny
Constant Cloquet
Edmond Crahay
Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu | Épée team  |  Netherlands (NED)
9-4 W |  Great Britain (GBR)
9-14 L |
Cyrille Verbrugge | Sabre masters  | n/a  |

## Rowing

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Main article: Rowing at the 1906 Intercalated Games

The Orban brothers arrived in Greece without a coxswain, as they didn't know they required one, so they recruited the young Greek Theophilos Psiliakos [de].

Athlete  | Events  | Final

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Result  | Rank
Max Orban
Rémy Orban | Coxed pairs (1 km)  | Unknown | 5
Max Orban
Rémy Orban | Coxed pairs (1 mile)  | 8:00.0  |

## Shooting

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Main article: Shooting at the 1906 Intercalated Games

Athlete  | Event  | Target Hits  | Points  | Rank

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Troffaes | Rifle Kneeling or Standing, 300 metres  | 23  | 125  | 32

## Weightlifting

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Main article: Weightlifting at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Athlete  | Event  | Weight  | Rank

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Marcel Dubois | One hand lift  | 60.40  | 8
Two hand lift  | 108.5  | 7

## Wrestling

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Main article: Wrestling at the 1906 Summer Olympics

Greco-Roman
Athlete  | Event  | Round 1  | Quarterfinals  | Semifinals  | Final Group

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Opposition
Result  | Opposition
Result  | Opposition
Result  | Opposition
Result  | Opposition
Result  | Rank
Renè Dobrinovitz | Lightweight  |  Skouteris (GRE)
W | n/a  |  Watzl (AUT)
L | Did not advance  | 4
Sauveur | Middleweight  |  Sullivan (USA)
W |  Weckman (FIN)
L | Did not advance  | 5
Marcel Dubois | Heavyweight  |  Born (GER)
W |  Christopoulos (GRE)
W |  Jensen (DEN)
L |  Baur (AUT)
L | Did not advance  |

## References

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1. ^ "Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
2. ^ "Rowing: 1906 Intercalated Games Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

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