Louis Franck (ice hockey)
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| Born | 28 December 1907 Antwerp, Belgium | |||||||||||||
| Died | 1988 5 September 1988 (aged 80) Bern, Switzerland | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Ice hockey, sailing | |||||||||||||
| Team | CPA, Antwerpen | |||||||||||||
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Louis Franck (28 December 1907 – 5 September 1988) was a Belgian ice hockey player and sailor. He won two medals at the Ice Hockey European Championships in 1924 and 1927.[1]
He also represented Belgium with Sailing at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
He was son of Pierre François Jean Franck and nephew of the Belgian politician Louis Franck. He became director and major shareholder at merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. in London[2] and was art collector. His daughter Martine Franck married photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Tomasz Malolepszy (2013). European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910. Scarecrow Press. pp. 12, 17. ISBN 978-0-8108-8782-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Louis Franck Scholarships". Archived from the original on 16 September 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ Archiefbank Vlaanderen - De geschiedenis van het Belgisch ijshockey (in Dutch)
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