Hubert Van Innis

Hubert Van Innis ( born February 24, 1866 in Elewijt, † November 25, 1961 in Zemst ) was a Belgian archer and multiple Olympic winner.

Already with 14 years Hubert Van Innis took part in his first international competition in the Netherlands. The Archery possessed in Belgium great tradition and still is to this country 's most successful sport in the Olympics. This is followed Van Innis played a big part.

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900 won Van Innis two gold and one silver medal, so he was most successful archer these Games. Twenty years later, at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, he won, at the age of 54 years, another four gold and two silver medals. Again, no other shooter was more successful than he.

With a total of nine medals, six gold and three silver, Van Innis is the most successful Olympian of all time in his country and also the oldest known athlete of his country, who won a gold medal. Even among all Olympic athletes put his medal successes in a dismal performance dar.

1933 Hubert Van Innis won with the Belgian team the title of world champion, a year later, he finished in the title fight for second place.

Van Innis, architect by profession, was also an excellent shot with a crossbow, so that you can quickly nicknamed Belgian William Tell awarded him and appointed dean of archers. In his birthplace Elewijt a bust commemorates him.

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