Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin
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Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin 🇫🇷

Pierre de Frédy, baron de Coubertin (Known as "Pierre de Coubertin")
["sports administrator", "historian", "father of modern Olympic Games"]
Born Jan 01, 1863 🇫🇷 Paris, France
Passed Away Sep 02, 1937 Geneva, Switzerland
Lifespan 74 years old
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"The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well."

Archival Overview

French educator and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee and universally regarded as the father of the modern Olympic Games.

Biographical Record

Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1863–1937) was a French educator and visionary who resurrected the Olympic Games for the modern world. Convinced of sport's capacity to cultivate moral character, international brotherhood, and global peace, Coubertin convened the 1894 Sorbonne Congress where the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was born.

He organized the inaugural modern Games in Athens in 1896 and served as IOC President until 1925. He designed the five interlocking Olympic rings and coined the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius. His heart is interred in a monument in Ancient Olympia, Greece.

Key Life Milestones

June 23, 1894

Revival of the Olympic Games at the Sorbonne

Founded the International Olympic Committee during the athletic congress at the Sorbonne in Paris, reviving the Olympic ideal.

April 6, 1896

Inauguration of Athens 1896 Olympics

Staged the first modern Olympic Games at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, uniting 241 athletes from 14 nations.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Cimetière du Bois-de-Vaux (Heart interred at Ancient Olympia)
Lausanne, Switzerland
GPS: 46.5186, 6.6022
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