An Entity of Type: athlete, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

Léon Bouffard (24 June 1893 in Geneva, Switzerland – 23 July 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Swiss athlete and sports administrator. As an athlete, he competed in pole vault, winning the Swiss championship in 1914. He was the founder (in 1929) and president of the Swiss Basketball Federation. He co-founded FIBA in 1932 and served as FIBA's president from 1932 to 1948. He organized 1st European Basketball Championship in 1935 and 4th European Basketball Championship in 1946, both in Geneva. Since 1948 he served as the Honorary President of FIBA. In 2007, he was enshrined as a contributor into the FIBA Hall of Fame.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Léon Bouffard (24 June 1893 in Geneva, Switzerland – 23 July 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Swiss athlete and sports administrator. As an athlete, he competed in pole vault, winning the Swiss championship in 1914. He was the founder (in 1929) and president of the Swiss Basketball Federation. He co-founded FIBA in 1932 and served as FIBA's president from 1932 to 1948. He organized 1st European Basketball Championship in 1935 and 4th European Basketball Championship in 1946, both in Geneva. Since 1948 he served as the Honorary President of FIBA. In 2007, he was enshrined as a contributor into the FIBA Hall of Fame. (en)
  • Léon Bouffard, né le 24 juin 1893 à Genève, décédé le 23 juillet 1981 à Genève, était un athlète puis dirigeant de basket-ball suisse. (fr)
  • Léon Bouffard (Ginevra, 24 giugno 1893 – Ginevra, 23 luglio 1981) è stato un altista e dirigente sportivo svizzero, membro del FIBA Hall of Fame dal 2007 in qualità di contributore. Campione di Svizzera di salto in alto nel 1914, fu il fondatore e presidente della Federazione cestistica della Svizzera nel 1929. In rappresentanza della propria Federazione, fu tra coloro che diedero vita alla FIBA il 18 giugno 1932 a Ginevra; ne divenne il primo presidente, rimanendo in carica sino al 1948, quando fu nominato presidente onorario. (it)
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 12591692 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1219 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 950570507 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Léon Bouffard (24 June 1893 in Geneva, Switzerland – 23 July 1981 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Swiss athlete and sports administrator. As an athlete, he competed in pole vault, winning the Swiss championship in 1914. He was the founder (in 1929) and president of the Swiss Basketball Federation. He co-founded FIBA in 1932 and served as FIBA's president from 1932 to 1948. He organized 1st European Basketball Championship in 1935 and 4th European Basketball Championship in 1946, both in Geneva. Since 1948 he served as the Honorary President of FIBA. In 2007, he was enshrined as a contributor into the FIBA Hall of Fame. (en)
  • Léon Bouffard, né le 24 juin 1893 à Genève, décédé le 23 juillet 1981 à Genève, était un athlète puis dirigeant de basket-ball suisse. (fr)
  • Léon Bouffard (Ginevra, 24 giugno 1893 – Ginevra, 23 luglio 1981) è stato un altista e dirigente sportivo svizzero, membro del FIBA Hall of Fame dal 2007 in qualità di contributore. Campione di Svizzera di salto in alto nel 1914, fu il fondatore e presidente della Federazione cestistica della Svizzera nel 1929. In rappresentanza della propria Federazione, fu tra coloro che diedero vita alla FIBA il 18 giugno 1932 a Ginevra; ne divenne il primo presidente, rimanendo in carica sino al 1948, quando fu nominato presidente onorario. (it)
rdfs:label
  • Léon Bouffard (fr)
  • Léon Bouffard (it)
  • Léon Bouffard (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License