Gaston Salmon
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Gaston Joseph Clement Marie Salmon (5 March 1878 – 30 April 1918){{Cite web |title=Gaston Joseph Clement Marie SALMON |url=https://www.wardeadregister.be/en/dead-person?idPersonne=36199 |access-date=2 March 2021 |website=www.wardeadregister.be|date = 8 November 2015}} was a Belgian épée, foil, and sabre fencer.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/21293 |title=Gaston Salmon |work=Olympedia |access-date=13 May 2021}} He was Jewish.{{cite book |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-903900-87-1|page=241 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&pg=PA241}}
Early and personal life
Salmon was born in Marcinelle, in the city of Charleroi, in Belgium, and was Jewish.[http://www.laprovince.be/143182/article/2017-10-23/la-medaille-dor-dun-carolo-en-vente-hollywood "La médaille d’or d’un Carolo en vente à Hollywood!" – Édition digitale de Mons]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|author=Bob Wechsler|title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA192|year=2008|publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60280-013-7|page=192}}{{cite book|author=Martin Harry Greenberg|title=The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1K4UAQAAIAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Schocken Books|isbn=9780805237115}} His parents were Emile Telesphore Joseph and his wife Antoinette Cecile Josephe Marie (nee Crispin). He married Ferdinande Betsy Ermens, and lived in Etterbeek.[http://bernichou23.skyrock.com/3302561792-Un-double-heros.html "Un double héros – Je rêve à toi dans l'absolu de ton absence"] In World War I he enlisted in the Belgian Army on 14 May 1917. He was killed in an air raid by a German plane at Veurne, Belgium, in April 1918, aged 40, and is buried in the Belgian Military Cemetery in Westvleteren.
Olympic fencing career
Salmon represented Belgium at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, competing in three events, winning a gold medal in team épée.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/gaston-salmon-1.html |title=Gaston Salmon Olympic Results |access-date=8 April 2010 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011112609/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/gaston-salmon-1.html |archive-date=11 October 2010 }} 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
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Further reading
- {{cite book|author=Joseph Siegman|title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Hall of Fame|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvszXWxqAR4C&pg=RA1-PA247|year=2000|publisher=Brassey's|isbn=978-1-57488-284-1}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070824190231/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=SALMOGAS01 Olympic record]
- [http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=197 Jews in Sports bio]
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