Emmanuel Hostache (sometimes shown as Emanuel Hostache, 18 July 1975 in
La Mure
La Mure () is a commune in the Isère département in southeastern France. It is located south of Grenoble on the plateau Matheysin.
Population
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* The Chemin de fer de la Mure is a small touristic train using a railway initially bu ...
,
Isère – 30 May 2007) was a French
bobsled
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der who competed from 1991 to 2000. Competing in two
Winter Olympics
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, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with
Great Britain
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) at
Nagano Nagano may refer to:
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* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
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* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...
.
Hostache was born at
La Mure
La Mure () is a commune in the Isère département in southeastern France. It is located south of Grenoble on the plateau Matheysin.
Population
Sights
* The Chemin de fer de la Mure is a small touristic train using a railway initially bu ...
, in south-eastern France.
At the
1999 FIBT World Championships in
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Hostache won a gold in the four-man event and a bronze in the two-man event.
Prior to being a bobsledder, Hostache also competed as a
track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...
athlete in the
shot put and
discus throw
The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by th ...
events.
Hostache died of
Ewing's sarcoma
Ewing sarcoma is a type of cancer that forms in bone or soft tissue. Symptoms may include swelling and pain at the site of the tumor, fever, and a bone fracture. The most common areas where it begins are the legs, pelvis, and chest wall. In about ...
in 2007 after fighting the disease for eight years.
References
External links
Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964FIBT profileFrench Athletic Federation news of Hostache's death
1975 births
2007 deaths
People from La Mure
Bobsledders at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Bobsledders at the 2002 Winter Olympics
French male shot putters
French male discus throwers
French male bobsledders
Olympic bobsledders for France
Olympic bronze medalists for France
Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
Medalists at the 1998 Winter Olympics
Deaths from bone cancer
Sportspeople from Isère
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