Tag: Louis Charles Baillon

• Wednesday, April 17th 2024 - 10:05 UTC

  Louis Charles Baillon, the first Olympic gold medal for the Falklands, London 1908

  

  Argentina is usurping the name of Falkland Islands born Louis Charles Baillon, as the first “Argentine Malvinas” Islander to win a gold medal in the London 1908 Summer Olympics, 'mistakenly' playing for the wrong side, the English field hockey national team. Such are the reports in some Buenos Aires media who insist in considering Louis Baillon an Argentine, born in the Falklands, (Fox Bay 1881) and who left the Islands forever in 1888 when he was seven years old.

• Monday, May 14th 2018 - 08:46 UTC

  Falklands' Olympic Games gold medal athlete who competed in 1908 London Games

  

  The only Falkland Islander to compete in the Olympic Games has entered the online version of the Dictionary of Falklands Biography (DFB).