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Belgian speed skater and ice hockey player

Roger Bureau
Personal information
Born1 February 1905
Antwerp, Belgium
Diedc. 11 April 1945 (aged 40)
Hanover, Nazi Germany
Sport
SportIce hockey
Medal record
Representing  Belgium
Ice Hockey European Championships
Silver medal – second place 1927 Vienna Team

Roger Eugene Bureau (1 February 1905 – c. 11 April 1945) was a Belgian speed skater and ice hockey player. As a speed skater he finished seventh at the 1926 European Championships. As a hockey player he won a silver medal at the Ice Hockey European Championship 1927, and finished fifth and 13th at the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively. During World War II Bureau served with the Allied forces. On 21 April 1944 he was arrested near the French-Spanish border, placed in a German prison camp, and executed in April 1945.

References

  1. ^ Roger Bureau. speedskatingstats.com
  2. ^ Tomasz Malolepszy (2013). European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910. Scarecrow Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-8108-8782-4.
  3. ^ Roger Bureau. sports-reference.com
  4. "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  5. Archiefbank Vlaanderen - De geschiedenis van het Belgisch ijshockey (in Dutch)

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