Emmanuel Hostache, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French bobsledder
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Place of Birth: La Mure, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Emmanuel Hostache
- Emmanuel Hostache (sometimes shown as Emanuel Hostache, 18 July 1975 in La Mure, Isère – 30 May 2007) was a French bobsledder who competed from 1991 to 2000.
- Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the four-man event (tied with Great Britain) at Nagano in 1998.
- Hostache was born at La Mure, in south-eastern France. At the 1999 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Hostache won a gold in the four-man event and a bronze in the two-man event. Prior to being a bobsledder, Hostache also competed as a track and field athlete in the shot put and discus throw events. Hostache died of Ewing's sarcoma, a form of cancer in 2007 after fighting the disease for eight years.
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