Gaston Salmon

Belgian fencer

Gaston Salmon
Medal record
Men's Fencing
Representing Belgium
Olympic Games
	1912 Stockholm	Team epée

Gaston Joseph Clement Marie Salmon (5 March 1878 – 30 April 1918)^[1] was a Belgian épée, foil, and sabre fencer.^[2] He was Jewish.^[3]

Early and personal life

Salmon was born in Marcinelle, in the city of Charleroi, in Belgium, and was Jewish.^[4]^[5]^[6] His parents were Emile Telesphore Joseph and his wife Antoinette Cecile Josephe Marie (nee Crispin).^[1] He married Ferdinande Betsy Ermens, and lived in Etterbeek.^[7]^[1] In World War I he enlisted in the Belgian Army on 14 May 1917.^[1] 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.^[7]^[1]

Olympic fencing career

Salmon represented Belgium at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, competing in three events, winning a gold medal in team épée.^[3]^[8] 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.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Gaston Joseph Clement Marie SALMON". www.wardeadregister.be. 8 November 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
^ "Gaston Salmon". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
^ ^a ^b Taylor, Paul (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists. Sussex Academic Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-1-903900-87-1.
^ "La médaille d’or d’un Carolo en vente à Hollywood!" – Édition digitale de Mons^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. p. 192. ISBN 978-1-60280-013-7.
^ Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books. ISBN 9780805237115.
^ ^a ^b "Un double héros – Je rêve à toi dans l'absolu de ton absence"
^ "Gaston Salmon Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2010.