Max Houben, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Houben

athlete

Date of Birth: 05-May-1898

Place of Birth: Verviers, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1949

Profession: racing driver, association football player, racing automobile driver, athletics competitor, bobsledder

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Max Houben (5 May 1898 – 10 February 1949) was a versatile Belgian athlete who competed from the early 1920s until his death at the 1949 FIBT World Championships.
He won a silver medal in the four-man bobsled event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St.
Moritz and was the oldest medalist at the Winter Olympics (48 years, 278 days) until Canadian Russ Howard won a gold medal in men's curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin (50 years, 7 days).