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.
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Isère
Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.bobsledder who competed from 1991 to 2000. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with Great Britain) at Nagano in
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
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. 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 b ...
Cortina d'Ampezzo
Cortina d'Ampezzo (; lld, Anpezo, ; historical de-AT, Hayden) is a town and ''comune'' in the heart of the southern (Dolomitic) Alps in the Province of Belluno, in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. Situated on the Boite river, in an alp ...
, 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 athlete in the
shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...
and discus throw events.
Hostache died of Ewing's sarcoma in 2007 after fighting the disease for eight years.