Jacques De Wykerslooth De Rooyesteyn

Jacques De Wykerslooth De Rooyesteyn ( born July 8, 1896 in Brussels, Brussels -Capital Region, † 19 July 1988 in Guirsch, Luxembourg Province) was a Belgian athlete who was active in the modern pentathlon. At the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1924 he took part in Modern Pentathlon Competition and was in this competition next Léopold Buffin de Chosal, Jules Hulsman and JLM Van Loocke one of four Belgians.

Life and career

Jacques De Wykerslooth De Rooyesteyn was born in 1896 as the eldest child of Fernand De Wykerslooth De Rooyesteyn ( 1869-1954 ) and his wife Mathilde d' Huart ( 1874-1961 ) in the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium. Together with his sister Suzanne Marie Zoé Ghislaine (1897-1983) and his brother Hervé Marie Ferdinand (1900-1983) Jacques grew up in Brussels. After he had started early with the modern pentathlon, he competed in the Olympic Summer Games in 1924 in the French capital in this very competition. There, however, he could not prevail against the powerful Norse and much of the rest of Nahmer field itself. Besides reached only in the posterior third of the table finishes in the 38 -man field, his best result was a 17th place in the discipline of show jumping. Ultimately, it came into the final table only for 29 out of 38 seats.

One and a half years after his participation in the Olympics married Jacques De Wykerslooth De Rooyesteyn on February 11, 1926 in Etterbeek originally from Bulgaria Sonia Robyn De Schneidauer ( 1901-1960 ), with whom he had two sons. While he had only two offspring, his sister gave birth to the same twelve children, his brother was the father of four children. Of his later life nothing further is known; after his wife 58 -year-old died in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre/Sint-Pieters-Woluwe on January 24, 1960 he survived it by more than 28 years and was thereafter never remarried. As a widower of Olympians from 1924, died on 19 July 1988 at the age of 92 years in the small village Guirsch in the Walloon province of Luxembourg.