Gent RFC is a Belgian
rugby
Rugby may refer to:
Sport
* Rugby football in many forms:
** Rugby league: 13 players per side
*** Masters Rugby League
*** Mod league
*** Rugby league nines
*** Rugby league sevens
*** Touch (sport)
*** Wheelchair rugby league
** Rugby union: 1 ...
club in Ghent. Former
IOC
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
president
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Jean Marie Rogge, Count Rogge (, ; 2 May 1942 – 29 August 2021) was a Belgian sports administrator and physician who served as the eighth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013. In 2013, Rogge beca ...
was a founding member of the club.
Historiek
(in Dutch)
History
The club was founded in 1969 by Jacques Rogge, his brother Philippe Rogge, Pierre Saverys, Jan Standaert and Guy Callebaut. They were all former ASUB Rugby players who found it increasingly hard to travel from Ghent to Brussels, where the aforementioned club was based at the time.
References
External links
Gent RFC
Belgian rugby union clubs
Rugby clubs established in 1969
Sport in Ghent
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