{"id":155630,"date":"2019-09-17T18:09:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/?post_type=athletes&#038;p=155630"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:00:11","slug":"munroe-bourne","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/munroe-bourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Munroe Bourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Olympien de trois Jeux, Munroe Bourne a remport\u00e9 une m\u00e9daille de bronze pour le Canada au relais 4&#215;200 m style libre de natation \u00e0 Amsterdam en 1928.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le nageur canadien Munroe Bourne a fait ses d\u00e9buts olympiques aux Jeux d\u2019Amsterdam en 1928 o\u00f9 il a remport\u00e9 la m\u00e9daille de bronze au relais 4&#215;200 m style libre aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Garnet Ault, Walter Spence et Jimmy Thompson. Il s\u2019est qualifi\u00e9 pour les demi-finales du 100 m libre et du 100 m dos. \u00c0 ses deux Jeux olympiques suivants, les meilleurs r\u00e9sultats de Bourne sont venus au relais 4&#215;200 m style libre, se qualifiant pour la finale aux Jeux de Los Angeles en 1932 (quatri\u00e8me) et \u00e0 ceux de Berlin en 1936 (septi\u00e8me). Il ne s\u2019est toutefois pas qualifi\u00e9 pour les finales de ses \u00e9preuves individuelles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deux fois champion aux Jeux de l\u2019Empire britannique, Bourne a d\u00e9croch\u00e9 l\u2019or au 100 verges style libre ainsi qu\u2019au relais 4&#215;200 verges \u00e0 Hamilton en 1930, se classant sixi\u00e8me au 400 verges style libre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Athl\u00e8te accompli, Bourne avait connu du succ\u00e8s en athl\u00e9tisme et au water-polo, mais il a fait ses d\u00e9buts en natation comp\u00e9titive au sein du Club sportif MAAA de Montr\u00e9al. Il est ensuite devenu un membre de l\u2019\u00e9quipe de natation de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill en 1927. Il agissait en tant que capitaine au sein de trois \u00e9quipes pour McGill, les menant \u00e0 des championnats en natation, en athl\u00e9tisme et au water-polo en plus de d\u00e9tenir cinq records intercoll\u00e9giaux en natation et deux records canadiens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Avec l\u2019obtention de dipl\u00f4mes en anglais et en science politique en 1931, Bourne s\u2019est vu remettre une bourse d\u2019\u00e9tudes Rhodes en 1932 et a poursuivit ses \u00e9tudes \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Oxford. Il a fait retour \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill en 1937 avec un dipl\u00f4me m\u00e9dical. Bourne a servi au sein de l\u2019arm\u00e9e canadienne au cours de la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale de 1940 \u00e0 1946, obtenant sa d\u00e9charge militaire apr\u00e8s avoir atteint le rang de major.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bourne a \u00e9pous\u00e9 Margaret Fairweather, auparavant religieuse infirmi\u00e8re lieutenant de la 14<sup>e<\/sup> unit\u00e9 d\u2019h\u00f4pital g\u00e9n\u00e9ral outre-mer canadienne au cours de la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale, s\u2019\u00e9tablissant d\u2019abord \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, pour finalement prendre racine \u00e0 Rothesay au Nouveau-Brunswick. Il a eu trois enfants, neuf petits-enfants et huit arri\u00e8re-petits-enfants. Il a travaill\u00e9 comme m\u00e9decin le reste de sa vie, s\u2019\u00e9teignant en 1992 \u00e0 Rothesay. Sa femme a rendu l\u2019\u00e2me en 2014, deux mois avant son 103<sup>e<\/sup> anniversaire de naissance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Bourne a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada en 1972 et il a \u00e9t\u00e9 le membre inaugural au sein du Panth\u00e9on des sports de McGill en 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympien de trois Jeux, Munroe Bourne a remport\u00e9 une m\u00e9daille de bronze pour le Canada au relais 4&#215;200 m style libre de natation \u00e0 Amsterdam en 1928.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[1104411,682164649,415930299],"hof-categories":[682162651],"year-inducted":[682162683],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983968],"sport":[763074],"game":[9241400,9241378,9241386],"team":[415983199,415983201,415983200],"event":[181822437,181822585,181823715],"province":[415983157],"class_list":["post-155630","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","hentry","tag-equipe-canada","tag-munroe-bourne","tag-natation","hof-categories-athlete","year-inducted-682162683","gender-masculin","season-ete","sport-sports-aquatiques-natation","game-1928-amsterdam","game-1936-berlin","game-1932-los-angeles","team-amsterdam-1928-natation","team-berlin-1936-natation","team-los-angeles-1932-natation","event-dos-100-m-hommes","event-freestyle-relay-4x200m-men","event-style-libre-100-m-hommes","province-quebec"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"","category_names":[],"tag_names":["\u00c9quipe canada","Munroe Bourne","Natation"],"sport_names":[],"game_names":["Amsterdam 1928","Berlin 1936","Los Angeles 1932"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Amsterdam 1928 Natation","Berlin 1936 Natation","Los Angeles 1932 Natation"],"province_names":["Qu\u00e9bec"],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"1","athlete_headshot":"","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec","athlete_birthplace":"Victoria, Colombie-Britannique","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"June 26, 1910","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/155630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/athletes"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/155630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=155630"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=155630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}