Jacques Rogge

Jacques Rogge, Count Rogge, lived from 2 May 1942 to 29 August 2021 and was a Belgian sports administrator, former athlete and physician who served as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013. He became the committee honorary president for life in 2013 and held that position until his death from Parkinson disease. As an athlete he was a noted competitor in Belgium: a sixteen-time Belgian national champion in rugby and a one-time yachting world champion. He sailed the Finn class at three Summer Olympic Games, in 1968, 1972 and 1976. He later led the Belgian Olympic Committee from 1989 to 1992 and the European Olympic Committees from 1989 to 2001, joined the International Olympic Committee in 1991 and its executive board in 1998, was knighted in 1992 and made a count in the Belgian nobility in 2002. His athletic career is recorded here separately from his administrative one.