Max Houben
Houben (right) training with Swiss Hans Eisenhut at the 1932 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Max Isidore Marie Jules Houben | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Max Isidore Marie Jules 5 May 1898 Verviers, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 10 February 1949 (aged 50) Lake Placid, New York, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Bobsled, sprint running | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 100 m | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | RCA Spa | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 100 m – 10.8 (1920) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Max Houben (5 May 1898 – 10 February 1949) was a Belgian versatile athlete who competed from the early 1920s until his death at the 1949 FIBT World Championships. He won a silver medal in the four-man bobsled event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, and was the oldest medalist at the Winter Olympics (48 years, 278 days) until Canadian Russ Howard won a gold medal in men's curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin (50 years, 7 days).