Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Games

Belgium at the
1906 Intercalated Olympics
Belgium at the; 1906 Intercalated Olympics
IOC code	BEL
NOC	Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee
Website	www.teambelgium.be (in Dutch and French)
in Athens
Competitors	16 in 7 sports
Medals; Ranked 12th	Gold2Silver1Bronze3Total6
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Last updated July 24, 2025

Belgium competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece. 16 athletes, all men, competed in 22 events in 7 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Cyrille Verbrugge	Fencing	Épée masters
Gold	Cyrille Verbrugge	Fencing	Sabre masters
Silver	Léon Dupont	Athletics	Standing high jump
Bronze	Eugène Debongnie	Cycling	Individual sprint
Bronze	Fernand de Montigny Constant Cloquet Edmond Crahay Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu	Fencing	Épée team
Bronze	Marcel Dubois	Wrestling	Heavyweight

The rowing silver medal in the coxed pairs event over 1 mile is classed as a mixed team medal due to the Orban brothers using a Greek coxswain.^[2]

Athletics

Athlete	Events	Final
Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Jules Lesage	Marathon	Did not finish

Athlete	Events	Final
Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Léon Dupont	High jump	Unknown	Unknown
	Standing high jump	1.40
	Standing long jump	2.975	4

Cycling

Athlete	Events	Heat		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Events	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Romeo Verschelden	Individual road race	n/a				2-41:45	4
Eugène Debongnie	Sprint	1.26 3/5	1 Q	Unknown	1 Q	Unknown
	333 metres time trial	n/a				23 3/5	5
	5000 metres	3:09	1 Q	Unknown	3	Did not advance
Francois Verstraeten	20 kilometres	Unknown	UnknownQ	n/a		Did not start
Romeo Verschelden	20 kilometres	Unknown	Unknown	n/a		Did not advance

Fencing

Athlete	Events	Heat Group	Semifinal Group	Final Group
Athlete	Events	Rank	Rank	Rank
Fernand de Montigny	Individual Foil	2 Q	Unknown	Did not advance
Edmond Crahay		Unknown	Did not advance
Constant Cloquet		Unknown	Did not advance
Fernand de Montigny	Individual Épée	1 Q	Unknown	Did not advance
Edmond Crahay	Individual Épée	1 Q	Unknown	Did not advance
Cyrille Verbrugge	Épée masters	n/a
Fernand de Montigny Constant Cloquet Edmond Crahay Philippe Le Hardy de Beaulieu	Épée team	Netherlands (NED) 9-4 W	Great Britain (GBR) 9-14 L
Cyrille Verbrugge	Sabre masters	n/a

Rowing

The Orban brothers arrived in Greece without a coxswain, as they didn't know they required one, so they recruited the young Greek Theophilos Psiliakos [ de ].

Athlete	Events	Final
Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Max Orban Rémy Orban	Coxed pairs (1 km)	Unknown	5
Max Orban Rémy Orban	Coxed pairs (1 mile)	8:00.0

Shooting

Athlete	Event	Target Hits	Points	Rank
Troffaes	Rifle Kneeling or Standing, 300 metres	23	125	32

Weightlifting

Athlete	Event	Weight	Rank
Marcel Dubois	One hand lift	60.40	8
Marcel Dubois	Two hand lift	108.5	7

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final Group
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Renè Dobrinovitz	Lightweight	Skouteris (GRE) W	n/a	Watzl (AUT) L	Did not advance		4
Sauveur	Middleweight	Sullivan (USA) W	Weckman (FIN) L	Did not advance			5
Marcel Dubois	Heavyweight	Born (GER) W	Christopoulos (GRE) W	Jensen (DEN) L	Baur (AUT) L	Did not advance

References

↑ "Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
↑ "Rowing: 1906 Intercalated Games Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

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[sports-reference-1] "Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

[sports-reference-rowing-2] "Rowing: 1906 Intercalated Games Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

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