Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen
{{Short description|Swiss jurist, politician and sport shooter}}
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| name = Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen
| image = Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen.jpg
| alt = Main with a black moustache in a shirt and tie
| caption = Portrait of Meyer de Stadelhofen
| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|3|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Dijon, France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1973|4|3|1878|3|15|df=y}}
| death_place = Geneva, Switzerland
| alma_mater = University of Geneva
| occupation = Shooter, judge
| years_active = {{flatlist|* 1906 – 1914 (shooting)
- 1918 – 1930s (judge)}}
| country = Switzerland
| sport = Shooting
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{{MedalCompetition|1906 Intercalated Games}}
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{{MedalGold|Shooting|Free rifle, free position}}
{{MedalGold|Shooting|Free rifle, team}}
{{MedalBronze|Shooting|Free rifle, kneeling}}
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Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen (15 March 1878 – 3 April 1973) was a Swiss judge and shooter. He won two gold medals and a bronze medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens.
Personal life
Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen was born in Dijon, France.{{cite web| url= https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/marcel-meyer-de-stadelhofen-1.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200417235914/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/marcel-meyer-de-stadelhofen-1.html| url-status= dead| archive-date= 17 April 2020| title=Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen| publisher=Sports Reference| accessdate=5 April 2020}} He earned a PhD at the University of Geneva.{{cite web| url=https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/016313/2008-11-13/| title=Marcel Meyer de Stadelhofen| language=fr| publisher=Historical Dictionary of Switzerland| date=2018| accessdate=5 April 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605112846/https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/016313/2008-11-13/| archive-date=5 June 2019| url-status=live}} In 1914, Meyer de Stadelhofen married Anne Louise Marie Jeanne Torrenté, an engineer's daughter.
De Stadelhofen died on 3 April 1973 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Career
At the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, de Stadelhofen won the Free rifle, free position, 300m event, and the Free rifle 300m team event, alongside Alfred Grütter, Jean Reich, Louis Richardet, and Konrad Stäheli.{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=wXYwCgAAQBAJ| title=The 1906 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary| last=Mallon| first=Bill| publisher=McFarland & Company| date=2015| isbn=9781476609515}}{{cite book| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gUT0CgAAQBAJ| title=III Olympiad: St. Louis 1904, Athens 1906| last=Posey| first=Carl| publisher=Warwick Press| date=November 2015| isbn=9781987944037}} He also came third in the Free rifle, kneeling event. De Stadelhofen came seventh in the Men's Military Rifle, Kneeling Or Standing, 300 metres event, and also competed in five other shooting events at the Games, finishing 15th or lower in all of them.
De Stadelhofen won seven world championship team events (from 1906 to 1910 inclusive, 1912 and 1914).{{cite web| url=http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/s/schiessen/hst/35.html| title=Schießen – Weltmeisterschaften: Gewehrdisziplinen 300 m| language=de| publisher=Sport Komplett| accessdate=5 April 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414064003/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/s/schiessen/hst/35.html| archive-date=14 April 2016| url-status=live}} He also won bronze medals in 1907 and 1912 in the 300m Rifle 3 Positions Men event, a bronze medal in the 1909 300m Free Rifle 40 shots standing event, and a silver medal in the 300m Free Rifle 40 shots kneeling event.{{cite web| url= https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHSUIM0000000054| title= Marcel MEYER DE STADELHOFEN| publisher= International Shooting Sport Federation| accessdate= 5 April 2020| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200201090303/https://www.issf-sports.org/athletes/athlete.ashx?personissfid=SHSUIM0000000054| archive-date= 1 February 2020| url-status= live}} From 1906 to 1909, he was a director of the Swiss Cycling union. In 1912, de Stadelhofen was a founding member of the Swiss Olympic Committee. He served as the organisation's president between 1915 and 1921. Between 1918 and 1935, de Stadelhofen sat on the Geneva Grand Council, as an independent until 1930, and then as an independent Christian socialist. From 1935, de Stadelhofen was a judge for the council.
Works
- De Stadelhofen, Marcel Meyer, De L'Assurance Collective Contre Les Accidents Du Travail: Specialement En Suisse Et En France (On Collective Insurance Against Accidents at Work: Especially In Switzerland And France), 1908, {{ISBN|9781160400725}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20200417235914/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/marcel-meyer-de-stadelhofen-1.html Sports Reference]
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Category:20th-century Swiss judges
Category:Medalists at the 1906 Intercalated Games
Category:Swiss male sport shooters
Category:Sportspeople from Dijon
Category:20th-century Swiss politicians
Category:Shooters at the 1906 Intercalated Games