Ernest Blakelock Thubron

Emile Thubron ( Ernest Thubron Blakelock; born July 15, 1861 in Boldon in Durham, † May 22 1927 in Tokomaru, New Zealand ) was a British motor boaters, who started but for France.

Thubrons biggest success was winning the gold medal at the Olympic Games 1908 in London about 40 miles an unlimited A-Class. His boat Camille, however, was also the only one of two boats that reached the target. First, the competition should be held between two other boats, however, but this was prevented by bad weather. In the second experiment then the Camille kicked the Wolseley Siddely with Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, in which, however, ran after interim guidance on basic and failed, so not to take Thubron after 2:26:53 hours of Olympic victory had.

The name of Thubrons boat, Camille, going to the Frenchwoman Camille du back guest, which had won in 1905, a 500 - mile race from Algiers to Toulon.

After 1908 power boating was never an Olympic sport, so Emile Thubron until today remains one of only four drivers who were able to reach an Olympic gold medal in the motorboat.