Emile Thubron
Olympic athlete
1861 – 1927
Who was Emile Thubron?
Ernest Blakelock Thubron, also known as Émile Thubron was an Anglo-French motorboat racer and Olympic champion.
He won the second running of the Harmsworth Trophy for motor powered boats in 1904 in Trefle-à-quatre. In 1898 Ernest Blakelock Thubron was managing Owner of the Boulac Engine Works, Cairo and in 1906 he was still working as a boat constructor in Egypt.
He competed with his boat Camille in Class A at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where he won the gold medal. He finished the forty nautical miles in 2:26:53, and Camille was the only boat to finish that race.
He retired to New Zealand. His son was Brigadier Gerald Thubron, OBE and his grandson Colin Thubron the writer.
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