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Henri de Baillet-Latour, Count of Baillet-Latour (1 March 1876 – 6 January 1942) was a Belgian aristocrat and the third president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
1925: Henri de Baillet-Latour, third IOC President. Count Henri de Baillet-Latour succeeded Pierre de Coubertin to become the third President of the International Olympic Committee. Baillet-Latour fit well with Coubertin’s image of the IOC as a gentleman’s club, and he was elected to the IOC membership in 1903.
The successor of Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin as the third President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Belgium’s Henri de Baillet-Latour, left his mark on the institution’s structure. However, very few works mention his influence, and the general public know little about him.
Biography. Henri, Count de Baillet-Latour succeeded Pierre de Coubertin to become the 3rd President of the International Olympic Committee. Baillet-Latour was born on 1 March 1876 in Antwerp. A wealthy aristocrat, Baillet-Latour fit well with Coubertin’s image of the IOC as a gentleman’s club and he was elected to IOC membership in 1903.
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Quick Reference. (1876–1942) The third president (1925) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), on to which he had been elected in Belgium in 1903.
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Apr 11, 2018 · The Belgian count Henri de Baillet-Latour presided the IOC for almost 20 years and had to face new challenges such as replacing Coubertin’s autocratic style of management, protecting the IOC’s institutional monopoly in the face of the increasing...
A biography of the Belgian count who succeeded Pierre de Coubertin as the president of the International Olympic Committee in 1925. Learn how he expanded the Olympics across the world, promoted regional games and used his diplomatic skills to manage the IOC.
