François Brandt
Olympic athlete
1874 – 1949
Who was François Brandt?
François Brandt was a Dutch rower who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Brandt was part of the Dutch eight team that won a bronze medal with Hermanus Brockmann as the coxswain. Brockmann also steered the boat of Brandt and Roelof Klein in the coxed pairs semifinal, which they lost to France. The pair realized that the 60 kg weight of Brockmann puts them in disadvantage; they replaced him with a local boy of 33 kg and won the final narrowly beating the French team.
Brandt had a degree in civil engineering and until 1938 worked for the Dutch railways. Later he became bishop for Belgium and Netherlands for the Liberal Catholic Church.
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- Born
- Dec 29, 1874
Netherlands - Also known as
- Брандт, Франсуа
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Died
- Jul 4, 1949
Naarden
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on July 23, 2013
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