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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). Early life [ edit ] Henri de Baillet-Latour was born in Brussels, Belgium, on 1 March 1876.
- 1 March 1876, Brussels, Belgium
- Sigfrid Edström
- 6 January 1942 (aged 65), Brussels, Belgium
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. His first significant involvement in Olympic matters came in 1905, when he helped ...
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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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Henri, Comte de Baillet-Latour (1925–1942) Henri, Comte de Baillet-Latour was elected IOC president in 1925, after the founder of the modern Olympic Movement, Baron de Coubertin, stepped down from the post to become honorary president. The Belgian Comte led the IOC until his death in 1942, when he was succeeded by his vice-president Sigfrid ...
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Feb 21, 1999 · In an April 12, 1933, letter to ''My dear Avery,'' Sigfrid Edstrom, the Swedish engineer who became I.O.C. president after Baillet-Latour died in 1942, captures the sentiment, if not the righteous ...
Search for: 'Henri de Baillet-Latour' in Oxford Reference ». (1876–1942)The third president (1925) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), on to which he had been elected in Belgium in 1903. He had founded the Belgian Olympic Committee in 1904, contributed to Belgium's participation in the London 1908 and Stockholm 1912 Olympics, and ...
Feb 28, 2007 · Count Baillet-Latour was born on 1 March 1879 in Brussels. In 1903, he was elected as an IOC member. In 1906, he played a part in founding the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee (today's NOC). In 1919, the city of Antwerp was elected as host city for the Games of the VII Olympiad. As head of the Belgian NOC, Henri de Baillet-Latour had ...
