death_date death_place birth_place image_size birth_date image article_title
4 november 1923 -lrb- aged 28 -rrb- antwerp , belgium antwerp , belgium 240px 24 september 1895 frans de haes.jpg frans de haes

frans de haes

françois `` frans '' de haes -lrb- 24 september 1895 -- 4 november 1923 -rrb- was a belgian weightlifter who won a gold medal at the 1920 summer olympics in antwerp .
he set one world record in the clean and jerk in 1922 .
to escape the german occupation , his family fled from antwerp to the netherlands , where he started weightlifting at age 17 .
after the war he returned to antwerpen .
while preparing for the 1924 summer olympics , he caught influenza and died at age 28 .
