{"id":19256,"date":"2011-09-18T22:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T02:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/team-canada\/george-athans-2\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:21:40","slug":"george-athans","status":"publish","type":"athletes","link":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/team-canada\/george-athans\/","title":{"rendered":"George Athans Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Olympien de deux Jeux olympiques, le plongeur canadien George Athans p\u00e8re a particip\u00e9 aux Jeux de Berlin en 1936 et \u00e0 ceux de Londres en 1948.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">George Athans, p\u00e8re n\u2019avait que 15 ans quand il a particip\u00e9 \u00e0 ses premiers Jeux olympiques, \u00e0 Berlin en 1936, ou il a pris le 25e rang de l\u2019\u00e9preuve de la tour au plongeon. Capitaine de la d\u00e9l\u00e9gation canadienne aux Jeux de Londres en 1948, Athans p\u00e8re a termin\u00e9 deux fois parmi les 10 meilleurs, soit au huiti\u00e8me rang \u00e0 la tour et au neuvi\u00e8me rang au tremplin de 3 m\u00e8tres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quadruple m\u00e9daill\u00e9 en deux \u00e9ditions des Jeux de l\u2019Empire britannique Athans, p\u00e8re a d\u00e9croch\u00e9 l\u2019or au 3 m en 1950, l\u2019argent \u00e0 la tour en 1950 et deux de bronze (3 m et tour en 1938). De 1936 \u00e0 1950, il a \u00e9t\u00e9 sacr\u00e9 champion canadien \u00e0 10 reprises.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quand sa carri\u00e8re de plongeur a \u00e9t\u00e9 interrompue par la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale, Athans p\u00e8re a d\u00e9but\u00e9 des \u00e9tudes en m\u00e9decine et a obtenu un dipl\u00f4me de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 McGill, \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, o\u00f9 il pratiquait quatre sports (plongeon, basketball, rugby et soccer) dans les ann\u00e9es 1940. Apr\u00e8s s\u2019\u00eatre retir\u00e9 de la comp\u00e9tition, Athans, p\u00e8re a ouvert son cabinet \u00e0 Kelowna et a amorc\u00e9 une carri\u00e8re d\u2019entra\u00eeneur en parall\u00e8le, travaillant \u00e0 un certain point avec la m\u00e9daill\u00e9e de bronze en plongeon des Jeux de Melbourne en 1956, Irene MacDonald.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mari\u00e9 \u00e0 une nageuse artistique, Athans, p\u00e8re a \u00e9lev\u00e9 ses trois enfants \u00e0 Kelowna et est devenu le patriarche d\u2019une des familles les plus prestigieuses au niveau sportif au Canada. George, fils a \u00e9t\u00e9 couronn\u00e9 champion du monde de ski nautique \u00e0 quatre occasions, Greg est devenu un skieur acrobatique de haut niveau (il est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 avant son p\u00e8re en 2006) et Gary a particip\u00e9 aux Jeux de Sarajevo en 1984 en ski alpin. Athans, p\u00e8re s\u2019est \u00e9teint \u00e0 Vancouver en 2007 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 86 ans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Dr George Athans p\u00e8re a \u00e9t\u00e9 intronis\u00e9 au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e olympique du Canada et est devenu membre du Temple de la renomm\u00e9e de la natation de la Colombie-Britannique en 1953. En 2009, la dynastie sportive de sa famille a fait son entr\u00e9e au Temple de la renomm\u00e9e des sports de la r\u00e9gion Central Okanagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympien de deux Jeux olympiques, le plongeur canadien George Athans p\u00e8re a particip\u00e9 aux Jeux de Berlin en 1936 et&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":188534,"template":"","tags":[7977,18594,2480962],"hof-categories":[682162651],"year-inducted":[682162680],"gender":[42123],"season":[415983968],"sport":[181823658],"game":[9241378,181821866],"team":[415983173,415983174],"event":[181823162,181823853],"province":[415983153],"class_list":["post-19256","athletes","type-athletes","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-berlin","tag-londres","tag-plongeon","hof-categories-athlete","year-inducted-682162680","gender-masculin","season-ete","sport-sports-aquatiques-plongeon","game-1936-berlin","game-1948-londres","team-berlin-1936-plongeon","team-londres-1948-plongeon","event-plateforme-10-m-hommes","event-tremplin-3-m-hommes","province-colombie-britannique"],"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/george-athans-bc-sports-hof-3.jpeg?quality=100","category_names":[],"tag_names":["berlin","londres","plongeon"],"sport_names":[],"game_names":["Berlin 1936","Londres 1948"],"season_names":["\u00c9t\u00e9"],"team_names":["Berlin 1936 Plongeon","Londres 1948 Plongeon"],"province_names":["Colombie-Britannique"],"social_facebook":"","social_twitter":"","social_linkedin":"","social_gplus":"","social_instagram":"","social_website":"","total_medal_count_gold":"","total_medal_count_silver":"","total_medal_count_bronze":"","athlete_headshot":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/09\/george-athans-bc-sports-hof.jpeg?quality=100","athlete_height":"","athlete_weight":"","athlete_hometown":"Kelowna, Colombie-Britannique","athlete_birthplace":"Kelowna, Colombie-Britannique","coc_gracenote_id":"","athlete_dob":"January 4, 1921","athlete_age":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/athletes\/19256","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\/19256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"hof-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hof-categories?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"year-inducted","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year-inducted?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"sport","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sport?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"game","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/game?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"team","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"province","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.olympic.ca\/olympique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/province?post=19256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}