Noël Vandernotte (25 December 1923 – 18 June 2020) was a French rowing coxswain 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 ...

. He was the son of

Fernand Vandernotte Fernand Auguste Henri Marius Vandernotte (12 July 1902 – 20 January 1990) was a French rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Tillières. He was the elder brother of Marcel Vandernotte ...

and the nephew of

Marcel Vandernotte Marcel Henri Vandernotte (29 July 1909 – 15 December 1993) was a French rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was born in Nantes. He was the younger brother of Fernand Vandernotte and the uncle o ...

. In 1936 he won the bronze medal of the French boat in the coxed pairs event as well as in the coxed four competition. He was the youngest male medalist at the 1936 Games, at 12 years and 233 days, and is also the youngest French Olympic medalist of all-time.

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* * * 1923 births 2020 deaths French male rowers Coxswains (rowing) Olympic rowers of France Rowers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in rowing Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics European Rowing Championships medalists 20th-century French people {{France-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub