Clement E. G. Spiette (born 24 September 1916 in Illford

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) was a

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who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

. In 1936 he and his partner

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finished ninth in the K-2 10000 m event. Louis Spiette and Joanna Janssens (Clement's parents) Left Belgium during the first World War. They went to England where clement was Born in 1916 During world war I. After the war he returned, In 1946 his first child was born in Belgium.

Champiomships

References

Sports-reference.com Clement Spiette's profile at Sports Reference.com
1916 births Belgian male canoeists Canoeists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Belgium Year of death missing {{Belgium-canoe-bio-stub