Gaston Salmon

Gaston Salmon (5 March 1878 – 30 April 1917) was a Belgian épée, foil, and sabre fencer. He was Jewish.[1]

Gaston Salmon
Medal record
Men's Fencing
Representing  Belgium
Olympic Games
1912 Stockholm Team epée

Early and personal life

Salmon was born in Marcinelle, in the city of Charleroi, in Belgium, and was Jewish.[2][3][4] He married Fernande Ermens, and lived in Etterbeek.[5] He was killed in World War I in a bombing by a German plane, and was buried in Westvleteren.[5]

Olympic fencing career

Salmon represented Belgium at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, competing in three events, winning a gold medal in team épée.[1][6] He also competed in two individual events, but was eliminated in the first round of both the individual foil and individual sabre. The team included artist Jacques Ochs.

See also

References
  1. Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-903900-87-1.
  2. "La médaille d’or d’un Carolo en vente à Hollywood!" – Édition digitale de Mons
  3. Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-60280-013-7.
  4. Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books.
  5. "Un double héros – Je rêve à toi dans l'absolu de ton absence"
  6. "Gaston Salmon Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2010.

Further reading


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