Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Louis "Lou"•Otten |
Used name | Lou•Otten |
Born | 5 November 1883 in Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland (NED) |
Died | 7 November 1946 in Den Haag (The Hague), Zuid-Holland (NED) |
Affiliations | HVV Quick, Den Haag (NED) |
NOC | Netherlands |
Medals | OG |
Gold | 0 |
Silver | 0 |
Bronze | 1 |
Total | 1 |
Otten played twelve internationals between 1907 and 1911. Upon completing his medical studies, he left for the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where he worked as a bacteriologist for the Pasteur Institute in Jakarta. In 1935, he discovered a vaccine against the bubonic plague. He died shortly after the Second World War, having survived internment in Japanese prison camps.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1908 Summer Olympics | Football (Football) | NED | Lou Otten | |||
Football, Men (Olympic) | Netherlands | 3 | Bronze |