Jean de Madre

Jean de Madre, Comte de Loos, known as Johnny, was a French polo player born in Meudon on 17 September 1862 and died in Paris on 2 January 1934. He competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, where the BLO Polo Club Rugby team he belonged to won the silver medal in the polo event. Much of his polo was played in England, where he won the Hunt Cup at Ranelagh in 1900, and in 1912 he won the Paris Open. He was the patron of the Tigers Polo Team, which toured America, England, India and continental Europe and won the 1923 Coronation Cup and the 1911 Roehampton Trophy. His older brother David married Marie, the only sister of Pierre de Coubertin.