Marius Lejeune

Marius Lejeune won silver with the French eights at the 1908 European Championships in Luzern (Lucerne) and claimed the title in the following year on home water in Paris. At the time, he was a member of the Cercle Nautique de France. At the 1912 Olympics, Lejeune was a member of the eights crew of Société Nautique de Bayonne that lost to the eventual bronze winners from Germany in round one. He settled in Bayonne in 1911, where he coached numerous rowers of his club including the 1921 French champions in the coxed pairs.

Lejeune joined the military for the first time in 1903. In 1910, he married Victorine Juliette Annette Tourret in Paris and had one daughter. Initially trained in the leather business, he later worked for a bank. Lejeune fought in Northern France from 1914-18 in an infantry regiment and was wounded in 1918. He reached the rank of a warrant officer and was awarded the Military Medal.