Jules Henri Bouckaert (3 May 1870 – 29 April 1912) was a French competition rower and Olympic champion. He was born in

Roncq Roncq (; nl, Ronk) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is from the border with Belgium. Population Heraldry Twin towns It is twinned with Todmorden in Britain, Delbrück in Germany, and Selinkegny in Mali. See ...

and died in

İzmir İzmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban agglo ...

. Bouckaert won a gold medal in the coxed four event at the

1900 Summer Olympics The 1900 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1900, link=no), today officially known as the Games of the II Olympiad () and also known as Paris 1900, were an international multi-sport event that took place in Paris, France, from 1 ...

, as member of the French team

Cercle de l'Aviron Roubaix Cercle is French for ''circle''. It can refer to: * circle (country subdivision) * Cercle (French colonial), an administrative unit of the French Overseas Empire * Cercle (Mali), the Malian administrative unit ** The specific Cercles of Mali * ...

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Henri Bouckaert's obituary
1870 births 1912 deaths People from Roncq French male rowers Olympic rowers for France Rowers at the 1900 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for France Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Nord (French department) 20th-century French people {{France-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub