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Juan Antonio Samaranch was born on 17 July 1920 in Barcelona as the third of six children in a wealthy Catalan family. In 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, he was conscripted to serve as a medical assistant in the Spanish Republican Armed Forces. Samaranch's political sympathies were for the Nationalists, and he deserted to Nationalist-held ...
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- IESE, Universidad de Navarra
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- María Teresa Samaranch Salisachs, 2nd Marchioness of Samaranch, Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs
Juan Antonio Samaranch, marquis de Samaranch (born July 17, 1920, Barcelona, Spain—died April 21, 2010, Barcelona) Spanish businessman and public official who served from 1980 to 2001 as the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Samaranch was the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer.
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Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was born 100 years ago this week, was a man of extraordinary vision who transformed the Olympic Movement in the 20th century. Born on 17 July 1920 in Barcelona (Spain), the third of six children, two girls and four boys, the young Samaranch took an early interest in sport. As a teenager, he practised hockey, boxing ...
Apr 22, 2010 · Juan Antonio Samaranch was born on July 17, 1920, in Barcelona, the son of a self-made textile baron. His first love was soccer, but after an illness he turned to roller hockey and became a ...
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Apr 21, 2010 · Wed 21 Apr 2010 08.18 EDT. Juan Antonio Samaranch, a reserved but shrewd dealmaker whose 21-year term as president of the International Olympic Committee was marked by both the unprecedented ...
Career. Account Director, International Flavours and Fragances (1982-1986); Financial Analyst at the First Boston Corporation in New York (1986-1989); Vice-President and partner of S.G. Warburg and Co. (1989-1991); CEO and founding partner of GBS Finance S.A. (1991-); Vice-President of Real Automóvil Club de Catalunya (RACC)
Apr 21, 2010 · Wed 21 Apr 2010 13.46 EDT. Juan Antonio Samaranch, who has died aged 89, was the seventh president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and had more influence on the Olympic movement than ...
