Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Games

Belgium at the 1906 Intercalated Olympics
IOC code	BEL
NOC	Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee
Website	www.olympic.be (in Dutch and French)
in Athens
Competitors	16 in 7 sports
Medals Ranked 12th	Gold 2 Silver 1 Bronze 3 Total 6
Summer appearances
1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

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
		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
		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	Unknown Q	n/a		Did not start
Romeo Verschelden		Unknown	Unknown	n/a		Did not advance

Fencing

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

Shooting

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final Group
		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